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Jets make Marcus Maye their Curtis Martin Team MVP

Jets safety Marcus Maye won the Curtis Martin Team MVP award for the first time in his career.

Jets players have spoken: Marcus Maye is their team’s most valuable player.

Maye was rewarded with the Curtis Martin Team MVP award Thursday following a vote by his teammates. Maye’s name will be added to a wall at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center that displays the names of past team MVPs.

Maye is the fourth safety to win the award. Dainard Paulson, Brian Washington and Jamal Adams are the other three Jets safeties who’ve taken home the team MVP award.

Maye, in his first season without Adams by his side in the secondary, has taken over as the leader of the Jets defense. Now in his fourth season, he’s the team’s longest-tenured, active player. Maye has been more vocal this season and shown a willingness to take on multiple roles on defense.

After spending most of his Jets career as the free safety, Maye took over as the strong safety for a stretch of games this season. He was playing the part that Adams had occupied for the last three seasons, playing up on the line of scrimmage. Additionally, Maye volunteered to return punts during training camp as well, but that never came to fruition during the regular season.

Statistically, Maye has put together the best season of his career. He’s registered 71 total tackles, two sacks, 11 pass breakups, two interceptions, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. The biggest play Maye made this season came in Sunday’s 23-20 win over the Rams. Maye broke up a pass to Gerald Everett on fourth down late in the game that allowed the Jets to get the ball back and run out the clock to pick up their first victory of the year.

The Jets also announced the winners of five other team awards on Thursday. Frank Gore won the Dennis Byrd/ Most Inspirational Player award, while Ryan Griffin got the Ed Block Courage/Most Courageous Player award. Mathias Farley won the Marty Lyons/Community Service award and Folorunso Fatukasi won the Kyle Clifton/”Good Guy” award. Finally, rookie Denzel Mims earned the Bill Hampton/”Rookie Who Acts Like a Pro award.

New York Jets team awards for the 2019 season

Here are the Jets team awards for the 2019 season.

At the end of the regular season, the NFL has a handful of awards that they give out to their players based on performance. Instead of looking at the whole league though, we’re just going to look at the Jets.

There are six awards to give out to players and coaches for their contributions to the 2019 season. That includes Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year and Least Valuable Player of the Year.

Let’s take a look at the team awards for the Jets in 2019.

Offensive Player of the Year: Jamison Crowder

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Jamison Crowder was expected to have a big role in the slot this season and he lived up to those expectations.

Crowder was the Jets’ leading receiver with 78 catches for 833 yards and six touchdowns. He also was targeted the most with 122 targets. Not only was Crowder the best offensive player, but he was the most consistent. Crowder had at least two catches in every game this season and was targeted heavily every week.

The 26-year-old fit well in Adam Gase’s offense as he was used in a variety of different ways. He was used as a vertical threat and was great at going from sideline-to-sideline. Overall, in an offense that struggled the entire year, Crowder was the one player that stood out from the rest.

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