Before the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles meet in Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for the Super Bowl Lix (Sunday 6 PM ET, FOX), the best of the NFL gathered in the nearby Saenger Theater for the honors of the NFL of the Thursday.
The next awards include: the most valuable player, the defensive rookie of the year and the coach of the year.
Here is a look at who took the awards home and why:
Player back of the year
Joe Burrow | QB | Cincinnati Bengals
When the season began, there were many questions about how Joe Burrow would answer an injury that ends the season in 2023. Burrow broke the skewed ligament on his launch wrist. During his recovery process, he could not find another field marshal or pitcher who had that injury. He took some time, but not only Burrow played well in 2024.
He ended up having the best season of his career. He led the League in Air Yardas (4,918) and TouchDowns of Pas (43) and finished third in the total QBR (74.7). Burrow joins Chad Pennington as the only player who won the prize twice since he reintroduced in 1998. Burrow won the honor in 2021 after taking the Bengals to a title of AFC North and finally a position in the Super Bowl After suffering an end of the season. Rolla injury his rookie season. In December, Burrow said he would be proud to win the player back of the year for the second time.
“It’s not exactly an award you want to be ready,” Burrow said. “But if you’re prepared for it, you could also try to win it.” – Ben Baby
Offensive player of the year
Saquon Barkley | Rb | Eagles Philadelphia
Barkley is having one of the best seasons for a corridor in the history of the NFL.
He became the ninth player to reach 2,000 yards by land and finished only 100 yards before the one -season racing record of Eric Dickerson (2,105) after the Eagles chose to rest their headlines at the end of the regular regular season Against the giants. Barkley has seven touchdown races of more than 60 yards, the most in a single season. The Eagles decided during their week 5 goodbye to become a more soil dependent offensive, focused on Barkley, and proceeded to collect 10 consecutive victories on the way to a 14-3 record.
“I would like to say that he has exceeded expectations, but he has always been one of the best players I’ve seen every time I have seen it and I have always known what kind of person is it because it is not difficult to find that was,” said the general manager Howie Roseman.
“So I really do not surprise any of this, and I do not say that in an arrogant way, it is based on who it is, nothing to do with me, because this is what has always been.” – Tim Mcmanus
Defensive player of the year
Pat Sortain II | Cb | Denver Broncos
Either simply the eye test or an analysis swirl, choose. To any extent, Sortain was ridiculously good throughout the season. It combined with a who who of the receptors, and the three receptions of J’Mar He made those stars.
Sortain, according to the next generation statistics of the NFL, delivered the slightest amount of reception yards (306) of any person in their position this season (minimum 375 snaps of coverage), allowed the second lowest pin rating when He directed and had the lowest expected points by objective (less-0.43). He tied his career in the interceptions (four) and led the league in interception return yards (132). As the defensive coordinator Vance Joseph said: “PAT is in the center of everything we do … it gives us the opportunity for many defenses to have, we can dictate some things where we align it.” Jeff Legwold
Offensive rookie of the year
Jayden Daniels | QB | Washington commanders
Jayden Daniels established a record after another, from the beginning of the season late.
He became the sixth rookie field marshal in taking his team to a conference championship game, the previous five played with classified defenses in the top three; Washington was 18. He hastened for more yards (891) than any other rookie field marshal in history and combined it with 3,568 air yards. It was the fourth classification pin of the NFL in the total QBR and launched for 25 touchdowns (15 arriving in its last five full games) with only nine selections, and ran for six scores. Daniels led five winning units, including one in the playoffs; Three ended up with touchdown passes. And launched more TouchDown passes in the last quarter and extra time (12) than any rookie in history.
In September, it became the first field marshal in the history of the NFL to complete at least 85% of its launches in consecutive games. – John Keim
Assistant coach of the year
Ben Johnson | Detroit Lions | Offensive Coordinator
Johnson, who is now the chief coach of the Chicago Bears, was a large part of the record season of the lions in 2024, in which they won the best 15 games in the franchise while winning the seed number 1 of the NFC and a Second consecutive NFC North title.
Johnson is widely respected by his players for his offensive brightness and creative game. The open receiver of the Lions, Jameson Williams, was impressed with the knowledge of the Johnson game.
“I talk a lot to him on the side when we are not offensive. I simply break down some things and some things that I never knew that the game played,” Williams said. “But it’s different. It’s a bit different. He played the game, but some people have passion for training and once they have an idea of the game, and understand the game very well, it becomes easy. You know what to ask for a certain defense. – Eric Woodyard
