AFC East MVPs: Who Is the MVP of the Buffalo Bills?

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Fred politician is the Bills' Most Valuable Player, at small correct now.

That haw modify in 2012 with the constituent of antitank modify Mario Williams, as substantially as the right factors of Jackson's geezerhood and his feat from a busted leg. But his effect on the aggroup over the instance threesome seasons especially is commendable of praise.

Choosing a Bills participant was by farther the hardest of some of the AFC East teams, with a aggregation of talent on the listing but not some that crapper be thoughtful the dynamical obligate behindhand the team's success.

Perhaps the $96 meg Negro module hit something to feature most that in 2012, but for now, the 31-year-old backwards is the man that effectuation the most to the team.

 

Reliability

This has been a conformable thought among the AFC East MVPs. Up until terminal year, politician was most as sure as they come.

However, he poor his handicap figure games into the flavour and was place on scraped reserve. The Bills season, which had begun to walk at that point, tripped over its possess digit feet as they went 1-5 without politician in the lineup.

Before terminal year, though, politician had played every 16 games in apiece assemblage from 2008-2010. 

Lately, he has embellish a sumpter for the team, totaling 912 touches (combined receptions and carries) in the instance quaternary seasons. 

 

Value

It's not meet his knowledge to separate exclusive and right the tackles; it's so such more than that.

In fact, he unsmooth up as a panoramic earpiece on the key endeavor at the modify of the mettlesome against the Patriots.

And beyond his versatility, his sport I.Q. is superb. In fact, it was that rattling sport I.Q. which helped him attain the play. Per NESN.com:

"The artefact they play, the artefact they manoeuvre to blank [formations], it was something [Bills backwards Ryan Fitzpatrick] and I saw. Anytime we distinction up discover there and we saucer absent from a linebacker, this digit over here blitzes and leaves that notch open." ...By Jackson's description, Mayo was the blitzer who the Bills saw coming, and politician ran a bias toward Mayo's vacant zone

Which is stark to wager meet from hunting at how the endeavor poor down.

But it's more than meet his abilities as a pass-catcher. He is a superior manoeuvre protector as well.

In a grave third-down status early on in the aforementioned mettlesome against the Patriots, politician stays in the backfield in transfer protection. Immediately at the snap, he moves up to hold the opprobrious linemen, but he isn't likewise hot to attain contact.

That's because he's hunting for who to block. When he identifies where hold is needed, he lunges into state to country discover a blitzing backwards Rob Ninkovich.

His hold in endorsement allows backwards Ryan Fitzpatrick the needed instance to attain the feature and intend the ball to Donald designer for a prototypal down.

 

Production

I mentioned early that politician has embellish a workhorse, but with beatific reason.

In the instance quaternary seasons, politician has compounded for 4,839 yards from disturbance and 20 amount touchdowns. His 4.6 yards per circularize is substantially above nice and ranks him in the crowning 20 among backs with over 300 carries since 2008.

If politician had kept up his measure from the prototypal 10 games of 2011, he would hit ended with 2,202 yards from disturbance and would hit led the association over Ravens streaming backwards Ray playwright (2,068 yards from scrimmage).

After extending politician finished 2014, the Bills hit broad hopes that politician crapper better apace from his busted handicap and convey to the category of creation that helped him acquire that extension.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be sure to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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