On Thursday night, the NFL Honors honored a number of exceptional athletes by presenting annual prizes to the greatest of the best. That wasn’t always the case, though, for every award.
Myles Garrett, a DE with the Browns, was declared the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, however a statistic shows the Associated Press was incorrect.
Since sacks became an official stat in 1982, Garrett is the first player to ever earn DPOY in a year where he had one or fewer sacks over their last six games, according to Daniel Valente of TheScore.
On Thursday night, the NFL Honors honored a number of exceptional athletes by presenting annual prizes to the greatest of the best. That wasn’t always the case, though, for every award.
Myles Garrett, a DE with the Browns, was declared the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, however a statistic shows the Associated Press was incorrect.
Since sacks became an official stat in 1982, Garrett is the first player to ever earn DPOY in a year where he had one or fewer sacks over their last six games, according to Daniel Valente of TheScore.
Watt knew he had lost the award again before it was formally announced, so he made the decision to “play hooky” and skip the celebration.
The All-Pro linebacker took to platform X to vent his feelings, writing, “Nothing I’m not used to.”
After missing out on Defensive Player of the Year the past time, Watt tied Michael Strahan’s record for the most sacks in a single season (22.5). Therefore, offenses better watch out because Watt is going to seek his retribution in 2024 and win his second award of this kind—which he ought to have gotten this year.