The Associated Press (AP) released their finalists for its eight major regular season awards, including most valuable player, defensive player of the year and offensive/defensive player of the year. The nominees are roughly who you’d expect: a smattering a superstars who impacted the game across nearly five months of games to make their teams better.
While we already know who AP voters chose to fill up their All-Pro teams, we’ll have to wait until Super Bowl week to find out this year’s individual award winners. Those won’t go live until the league’s NFL Honors show in primetime February 9.
This, of course, doesn’t prevent us from speculating. We all pretty much know who this season’s MVP is going to be thanks to Patrick Mahomes’ stellar play and Jalen Hurts’ late-season injury. We’ve got a pretty good idea on the other awards, too. But there’s room for debate.
Let’s do that. Our picks prognosticators: Christian D’Andrea, Charles Curtis and Robert Zeglinski will once again steam into the breach to be kinda right about NFL stuff. Their predictions follow, but if you want Christian’s full Pro Football Writers Association ballot for their awards, you can find that here.