With the Super Bowl just days away, it leaves a bitter-sweet feeling. Sweet in the sense that we get the most highly anticipated game of the year, bitter because it means football is gone for seven months. However, it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, and the 2023 football season was special.
The NFL Honors show was on Thursday evening as Lamar Jackson was unveiled as the league MVP for the second time in his career. For Alabama fans, the exciting part of the evening came as [autotag]Will Anderson Jr.[/autotag] was announced as the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. Anderson becomes the first former Alabama player to win the award since his current head coach, DeMeco Ryans, last did it in 2006 with the Houston Texans as well. Anderson was a monster all season long as he finished the year with 45 tackles, seven sacks and 10.5 stuffs in 15 games.
Ryans and Anderson is a match made in heaven and is only getting to get better by the year. CJ Stroud and the Texans offense took up most of the headlines in Houston all year long, but the defense was the unsung heroes of the year. The Texans are beginning to look like geniuses for moving up to No. 3 in the draft to get Anderson a year ago.
THE DEFENSIVE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 🏆 pic.twitter.com/9563klrqRL
— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) February 9, 2024
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