today's Featured List/February 3, 2020
The Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award is given by the Associated Press to the most outstanding defensive player in the National Football League (NFL) at the end of every season.
It has been awarded since 1971. The winner is decided by votes from a panel of fifty AP sportswriters who regularly cover the NFL. Lawrence Taylor (pictured) and J. J. Watt are the only three-time winners of the award. Joe Greene, Mike Singletary, Bruce Smith, Reggie White, Ray Lewis, and Aaron Donald have each won it twice. Taylor is the only player to win the award as a rookie, doing so in 1981. White is the only player to win the award with two different teams, winning in 1987 with the Philadelphia Eagles and again with the Green Bay Packers in 1998. Watt is the only player to win the award unanimously, receiving fifty first-place votes in 2014. (Full list...)
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