Voters for the NFL MVP cast their ballots right after the regular season ends , with voting typically wrapping up in early January, before any playoff games are played.

Key timing

  • The Associated Press MVP vote is based only on regular-season performance, so ballots are due after Week 18 and before the postseason kicks off.
  • The award itself is then revealed at the NFL Honors show on the Thursday before the Super Bowl, even though the actual voting happened weeks earlier.

How the MVP vote works (quickly)

  • A panel of 50 media members (a “nationwide panel of media”) votes for MVP.
  • Since the 2022 season, each voter ranks their top five players, and a points system (10–5–3–2–1) is used to determine the winner.

So in short: they vote for NFL MVP in the brief window immediately after the regular season, and the result is held until it is announced before the Super Bowl.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.