The quarterbacks aren’t realistically attempting to chase down Patrick Mahomes in the Lombardi Trophy department, but what they are trying to be is this era’s Peyton Manning.

Lamar Jackson vs. Josh Allen highlights NFL playoff slate: Who deserves MVP? This weekend's divisional round of the NFL playoffs features two quarterbacks in remarkably similar positions. Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills and Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens are the leading MVP candidates this season.

For several years now, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have resided firmly within an elite group of signal callers ranking somewhere behind Patrick Mahomes in the NFL’s pecking order, jostling for position with the likes of Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert to be considered the best of this generation’s rest.