Patrick Mahomes is your odds-on favorite to win NFL MVP

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes opened up the season with 33-to-1 odds to win the NFL MVP award with 15 players ahead of him, according to Bovada.

Times have changed.

After the Chiefs’ Week 2 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mahomes’ odds improved to 12 to 1, or fourth best, only behind Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers.

And now after the Week 3 win over the 49ers and his 13-touchdown, zero-interception start to the 2018 season, Mahomes is the odds-on favorite to win the award at the end of the season.

Here are the top 10 odds listed as of this writing:

Mahomes 3/1

Drew Brees 11/2

Aaron Rodgers 6/1

Tom Brady 9/1

Jared Goff 14/1

Todd Gurley 14/1

Alvin Kamara 16/1

Cam Newton 18/1

Ben Roethlisberger 20/1

Matt Ryan, Carson Wentz 22/1

Other odds listings

• The Chiefs are the current odds-on favorite to win the AFC West (1/2), followed by the Chargers (10/3), Broncos 9/2 and the Raiders (40/1).
• The Chiefs have the third-best odds to win Super Bowl LII at 9/1, only behind the Los Angeles Rams (9/2) and New England Patriots (8/1)