Our second NFL Thursday miniseries that helped get this entity started gets an update piece today, since the sixtieth Super Bowl is in the books now. It’s crazy to think the spectacle that is the Super Bowl has been around longer than we have, really. Is the institution of American football the same to us all these days? Well, this game brought in less than a 40-percent share of households with televisions, which is surprising considering the TV markets involved. Hmmm …

No worries: we’re here, rain or shine. And this is what we have analyzed and surmised, for your viewing pleasure!

Super Bowl LX MVP: Kenneth Walker III, RB, Seattle (original, confirmed)

The Seattle Seahawks won their second Super Bowl in a “rematch” against the team that denied them a second NFL title a decade-plus ago: the New England Patriots. This game was mostly a blowout, with the Seahawks taking a 19-0 lead early in the fourth quarter before cruising to a 29-13 victory. The MVP vote went to Seattle running back Kenneth Walker III, who didn’t score a touchdown despite piling up the most rushing yards in a Super Bowl since the late 1990s. Crazy, huh?

Walker, who for some reason was denied the Heisman Trophy in 2021, totaled 161 total yards, with 135 of those coming on the ground. His rushing total was 98 yards better than any other player in this game, and no other skill position player managed even 80 total yards. Thus, he was the offensive star of a game that the Seahawks defense dominated into the fourth quarter. And what about those defensive players for Seattle? Well … linebacker Ernest Jones gets some love, too.

He posted 11 tackles total—but only one of them was for a loss. Two different Seahawks intercepted passes, including LB Uchenna Nwosu who returned his INT for a TD. Yet it came near the end of the game, when the outcome mostly was decided. And oddly, Nwosu didn’t have a single tackle all game. Overall, the defensive smothering by Seattle was a group effort, and this wouldn’t even be an issue if Walker hadn’t had a TD run called back by a penalty in the fourth quarter.

The only other player really to consider is Seahawks kicker Jason Myers. He kicked five field goals in this one, as he scored the first 12 points for the winning team. Yet none of his five FGs were “heroic” in the sense that they averaged only 36 yards per kick, and he didn’t deliver a game-ending boot, either. He was only in field position, really, for the first three kicks because Walker was putting together an impressive first half where he outgained the entire Patriots offense. Boom.

2025 NFL ROTY: Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Carolina & Carson Schwesinger, LB, Cleveland (original); McMillan (revised)

Moving on here, our ROTY vote winners above start the discussion: only McMillan played for a winning team, though, so he gets the initial nod over Schwesinger. However, we’d also consider Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson, who outgained and outscored McMillan—yet played for a much better team. We also like Seattle safety Nick Emmanwori, who managed to notch 56 tackles, 2.5 sacks, and one INT for the best defense in the league, although again with some help.

In the end, McMillan played for an 8-9 team, showing the lack of talent around him, while our other two guys played for 14-win teams that ended up in the Super Bowl. Without McMillan, the Panthers do not sneak into the postseason.