Category: Defensive Player of the Year
2012 PFF Defensive Player of the Year
With the playoffs around the corner, Ben Stockwell examines the Defensive Player of the Year nominees and gives the PFF winner plaudits.
Defensive Player of the Year: High Wattage
It’s a close race for Defensive Player of the Year, but Pro Football Focus analysts give J.J. Watt the edge over Von Miller with five weeks to play.
Geno Atkins: DPOY Candidate
Khaled Elsayed breaks down why he thinks Geno Atkins should be in the talk for Defensive Player of the Year.
2011 PFF Defensive Player of the Year
As passing records fell with the regularity of a Tim Tebow incompletion you could speculate that defenders in the 2011 season weren’t up to much. It’s true that some pass rushers struggled to get pressure and certain defensive backs had horrendous problems even getting close to receivers, but at the other end of the scale, [...]
Player of the Year Candidates – the PFF Perspective
We may be in the holiday season right now but there’s a far more interesting, and even more stressful season coming on. Awards season in the NFL. This is the time to make those near-impossible personal preference decisions as to who the best players are at each position. A thankless task but one that often [...]
Defensive Player of the Year: Wrapping up
Editor’s Note: As the NFL releases its major awards this week we’ll re-run our choices for comparison’s sake. This originally ran Jan. 7. After weeks and weeks of telling you Kyle Williams was the defensive player of the year I had a change of heart. The last two weeks Williams struggled while another defensive lineman [...]
Defensive Player of the Year: Snubs edition
While we’ve taught ourselves never to be shocked by the Pro Bowl, we couldn’t help but raise our eyebrows when the roster was announced. Three of our top five contenders from last week’s Defensive Player of the Year didn’t make the roster. What is that all about? So we’ve put together another list of our [...]
Defensive Player of the Year: Send us the Bill
I love it when my schedule comes in and the Bills are one of my games of the week. You want to know why? Because it means I get to watch Kyle Williams play. And that means I’m in on a secret that not many people seem to be aware of and that makes me [...]
Offensive Player of the Year: AFC West power
The AFC West was supposed to be a weak sister of the NFL, but we’ve seen some pretty darn good football from the Chiefs, Chargers and Raiders — and a lot of standout individual performances. As the Chiefs and Chargers battle for the division title (with the Raiders a longshot), they’ll be leaning on our [...]
Defensive Player of the Year: ‘Tis the season for slumps
Are defenses beginning to tire? Our top contenders to the throne of Defensive Player of the Year didn’t produce quite the performances we’ve become accustomed to. But that’s OK, we’ll let this week go by safe in the knowledge every last one of them will be back to their best this week. Right? And if [...]
