What’s trending for Super Bowl LVII?

How about NFL MVPs, second-team All-Pros and former Alabama quarterbacks?

Those trends say the Philadelphia Eagles will defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL championship game for the 2022 season on Sunday.

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But Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts said the Eagles have their work cut out for them to keep those trends in their favor.

“I think they’re a really good football team,” Hurts said of the Chiefs. “Defensively, I feel like they’re really good at every position. I feel like they fly to the ball. Their front seven is very disruptive. Ninety-five (defensive tackle Chris Jones), he’s a problem. We have to be ready to play really clean football, execute, and we got to play our best. We got to play our best game.”

On Thursday night, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes was announced as the winner of The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award for the 2022 season.

Ten of the first 19 NFL MVP winners to reach the Super Bowl in the same season that they won the award also were winners in the NFL championship game.

But the past nine NFL MVP Award winners who reached the Super Bowl have lost. In the 1999 season, St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner won the NFL MVP Award, then capped the season in a 23-16 victory over the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. That’s the most recent time that the NFL MVP also has been a Super Bowl winner.

In three of the Super Bowl losses for the MVP Award winners, the runner-up in the voting was on the opposite side of the field:

· San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana came out ahead of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson 26-21 in Super Bowl XVI on Jan. 24, 1982.

· New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees came out ahead of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7, 2010.

· New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady came out ahead of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan 34-28 in overtime in Super Bowl LI on Feb. 5, 2017.

In the voting for the 2022 NFL MVP Award, Hurts finished as the runner-up to Mahomes.

Just as Mahomes and Hurts finished 1-2 for the MVP Award, they also finished first and second, respectively, in the voting for the AP’s All-Pro team for the 2022 season.

Sunday’s game will be the fifth Super Bowl in which the first-team All-Pro and second-team All-Pro quarterbacks have squared off, and the second-teamer has a 5-0 record in those games.

The three games involving the first- and second-place finishers in the MVP balloting also featured the first- and second-place finishers in the All-Pro voting.

The two other instances featured Montana and Miami’s Dan Marino, when the 49ers defeated the Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX on Jan. 20, 1985, and Washington’s Mark Rypien and Buffalo’s Jim Kelly, when the Redskins defeated the Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI on Jan 26, 1992.

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Hurts played his first three college seasons at Alabama. Former Crimson Tide quarterbacks have played in six Super Bowls without a loss.

Pro Football Hall of Fame members Bart Starr, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler were starting quarterbacks in Super Bowl victories.

Starr was the MVP of the Green Bay Packers’ victories in the first two Super Bowls (and he played as the NFL MVP in the first of those games). As the New York Jets’ QB, Namath followed Starr as the MVP in the third Super Bowl. Stabler was a winner for the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XI.

Less well-known are the Super Bowl appearances of Jeff Rutledge. Rutledge finished off a couple of Super Bowl routs – the New York Giants’ 39-20 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI on Jan. 25, 1987, and Washington’s victory over Buffalo in Super Bowl XXVI, when he relieved Rypien in one of the first-team All-Pro vs. second-team All-Pro games.

Rutledge also was a member of the Los Angeles Rams in a 31-19 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV on Jan. 20, 1980, but he did not play in the game.

The Eagles and Chiefs square off in Super Bowl LVII at 5:30 p.m. CST Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. FOX will televise the game.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.