Both quarterbacks had their doubters leading up to the draft. Now, the AFC divisional round's winner will be within a game of a Super Bowl.

Heading into their divisional round matchup, Ravens QB Lamar Jackson cleared the air on Bills QB Josh Allen as his competitor.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is MVP favorite over Ravens Lamar Jackson ahead of the Divisional Round Game

The Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills will battle in the AFC Divisional Round on Sunday. Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are more than MVP frontrunners.

The Bills finished the 2024 regular season with a 13-4 record and a fifth straight AFC East division title. Their success earned them the No. 2 seed in the AFC playoffs, right behind the Chiefs, who earned the top spot along with a coveted bye week.

Despite their dissimilar stats, Bills QB Josh Allen and Ravens QB Lamar Jackson are embroiled in a neck-and-neck MVP race. Here's why.

Part of the excitement of this matchup will be the MVP debate. Both are very deserving. Consider there's been three instances in NFL history of a player with 40+ total touchdowns, 500+ rushing yards and fewer than seven interceptions in a season.

There haven't been too many NFL divisional round matchups like the final game of this weekend. It starts with the quarterback battle. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson will almost certainly finish 1-2 in the NFL MVP voting,

They are generational talents, one certainly to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the other most likely to be as well. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and his Bills counterpart Josh Allen were both drafted in 2018,