The Buccaneers' masterful Super Bowl 55 win was full of MVP-worthy performances.Tampa Bay beat the Chiefs, 31-9, to claim Tom Brady's seventh Super Bowl ring. The victory included a dominating Buccaneers defense that forced Patrick Mahomes into mistakes and rushed throws. There was a "Playoff Lenny" performance by Leonard Fournette. Rob Gronkowski chipped in with two touchdown catches, too. But none of those stellar outings was quite enough to take home the Super Bowl MVP award in 2021.MORE: Who won Super Bowl MVP in 2021?Tom Brady was named the Super Bowl 55 MVP, his fifth such honor out of his seven Super Bowl Taylor Guerrieri Jersey titles. It capped off his first year in Tampa Bay, his age-43 season, in a way only Brady could. He connected twice with Gronk for touchdowns before throwing another to Antonio Brown, all in the first half.From there, Brady could mostly turn around and hand the ball off to Fournette and Ronald Jones. That meant Brady's volume pa sing stats didn't sky through the roof he finished 21-of-29 pa sing for 201 yards.But every Alex Claudio Jersey time the Buccaneers needed Brady to deliver, he did. His first touchdown to Gronkowski capped a 75-yard drive after the Chiefs got on the board first with a field goal, and Brady'ssecond scoring throw to his former Patriots teammate proved to be the backbreaker.The Chiefs had Brady stopped once on the key second-quarter drive with a deflected interception reeled in by Tyrann Mathieu. But a defensiveholding penalty negated that. Three plays later, Brady jogged off the field again, Tampa Bay being forced to kick a field goal. An offside flag on the kickgave Brady a third chance, and on the very next play, he threaded a 17-yard touchdown down the middle of the field to Gronkowski.The WHOLE defense should get the MVP of the game!!! LeBron James (@KingJames) MORE: Then on the final Tampa Bay drive of the first half, Kansas City chose to use timeouts to try Darwin Barney Jersey and get the ball back. Instead, the stoppages aided Brady in having enough time to score once more. He capped the drive off with a 1-yard touchdown pa s to Brown.The win Kolby Allard Jersey Sunday night validated everything about Brady's decision to leave New England and join the Buccaneers. The move brought Gronkowski out of a one-year retirement to join Brady. It led to the signing of Brown, who Brady had befriended in a brief stint together in New England in 2019. The Buccaneers also went all-in on the unwanted veterans bandwagon by signing Fournette, too, who played at his best during the postseason.Brady wasn't playing a season at 43 just for the sake of playing. He was competing init, as he always has in the NFL, to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. And when all the maneuvering in Tampa Bay came to pa s, it ended with Brady, yet again, standing atop Mike Minor Jersey the mountain.Super Bowl MVP winnersYear Super Bowl MVP Team Pos 1967IBart StarrPackersQB1968IIBart Starr (2)PackersQB1969IIIJoe NamathJetsQB1970IVLen DawsonChiefsQB1971VChuck HowleyCowboysLB1972VIRoger StaubachCowboysQB1973VIIJake ScottDolphinsS1974VIIILarry CsonkaDolphinsRB1975IXFranco HarrisSteelersRB1976XLynn SwannSteelersWR1977XIFred BiletnikoffRaidersWR1978XIIHarvey Martin/Randy WhiteCowboysDE/DT1979XIIITerry BradshawSteelersQB1980XIVTerry Bradshaw (2)SteelersQB1981XVJim PlunkettRaidersQB1982XVIJoe Montana49ersQB1983XVIIJohn RigginsRedskinsRB1984XVIIIMarcus AllenRaidersRB1985XIXJoe Montana (2)49ersQB1986XXRichard DentBearsDE1987XXIPhil SimmsGiantsQB1988XXIIDoug WilliamsRedskinsQB1989XXIIIJerry Rice49ersWR1990XXIVJoe Montana (3)49ersQB1991XXVOttis AndersonGiantsRB1992XXVIMark RypienRedskinsQB1993XXVIITroy AikmanCowboysQB1994XXVIIIEmmitt SmithCowboysRB1995XXIXSteve Young49ersQB1996XXXLarry BrownCowboysCB1997XXXIDesmond HowardPackersKR/PR1998XXXIITerrell DavisBroncosRB1999XXXIIIJohn ElwayBroncosQB2000XXXIVKurt WarnerRamsQB2001XXXVRay LewisRavensLB2002XXXVITom BradyPatriotsQB2003XXXVIIDexter JacksonBuccaneersS2004XXXVIIITom Brady (2)PatriotsQB2005XXXIXDeion BranchPatriotsWR2006XLHines WardSteelersWR2007XLIPeyton ManningColtsQB2008XLIIEli ManningGiantsQB2009XLIIISantonio HolmesSteelersWR2010XLIVDrew BreesSaintsQB2011XLVAaron RodgersPackersQB2012XLVIEli Manning (2)GiantsQB2013XLVIIJoe FlaccoRavensQB2014XLVIIIMalcolm SmithSeahawksLB2015XLIXTom Brady (3)PatriotsQB2016LVon MillerBroncosLB2017LITom Brady (4)PatriotsQB2018LIINick FolesEaglesQB2019LIIIJulian EdelmanPatriotsWR2020LIVPatrick MahomesChiefsQB2021LVTom Brady (5)Buccaneers