Lamar Jackson is near-unanimous for his second NFL Most Valuable Player award
was a near-unanimous choice for his second AP NFL Most Valuable Player award announced at NFL Honors on Thursday night.Baltimore's All-Pro quarterback received 49 of 50 first-place votes from a nationwide panel of voters that includes media members who regularly cover the NFL, former players and coaches.Jackson led the Ravens (14-5) to the NFL's best record in the regular season, but they lost to the in the AFC championship game. The 27-year-old Jackson is the fourth player to win his second MVP before turning 28, joining (27), Brett Favre (27) and Jim Brown (22).ADVERTISEMENT San Francisco running back ran away with the AP Offensive Player of the Year award. edge rusher beat out for AP Defensive Player of the Year. quarterback won the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award in a landslide. Defensive end , Stroud's teammate, won the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year award, outgaining both and by two first-place votes.The Browns took home four awards. Quarterback , who came off the couch to lead the Cleveland to the playoffs, won the AP Comeback Player of the Year. Kevin Stefanski edged Houston coach DeMeco Ryans for AP Coach of the Year honors by one first-place vote. Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz won the AP A sistant Coach of the Year award after guiding the league's No. 1 ranked unit. quarterback Josh Allen got the other first-place vote and finished fifth overall in voting. quarterback was second with 152 points. McCaffrey came in third with 147 points and teammate was fourth with 97.Jackson threw for 3,678 yards and 24 touchdowns and ran for 821 yards and five scores while leading Baltimore to a record 10 wins over teams that finished with a winning record. He helped the Ravens rout Houston in the divisional round but struggled in a 17-10 lo s to the Chiefs in the AFC title game.McCaffrey, San Francisco's All-Pro running back, received 39 of 50 first-place votes for OPOY and earned 222 points, outpacing wide receiver .Garrett, Cleveland's All-Pro edge rusher, received 23 first-place votes and 165 points to Watt's 19 Jay Miller Jersey first-place votes and 140 points for DPOY.Stroud received 48 of 50 first-place votes for OROY with wide receiver getting the other two.Anderson and Stroud are the fourth teammates to win the offensive and defensive rookie awards in the same season. and swept the awards last year for the .Flacco beat out Bills safety and quarterback for the comeback award. He received 13 first-place votes, 26 second-place votes and eight thirds to finish with 151 points.Hamlin returned to the NFL this season after collapsing on the field and needing to be resuscitated following a cardiac arrest on Jan. 2, 2023. He played in five regular-season games. Hamlin received 21 first-place votes but appeared on 42 of 50 ballots while Flacco was on 47. He got seven second-place votes and 14 thirds for 140 points.Mayfield, who bounced around from the Browns to the to the Rams last season, started every game for and led them to the second round of the playoffs. He got 10 first-place votes and finished with 93 points.Flacco, the 39-year-old former Super Bowl MVP, was home in New Jersey with his family when Cleveland called him in November. He went 4-1 in five starts and pa sed for over 300 yards in four straight games with 13 touchdowns.Others receiving first-place votes were: Dolphins quarterback (4), Rams QB (1) and 49ers QB Brock Purdy (1).Stefanski led the Browns to their third playoff appearance since 1999 despite losing quarterback , star running back and right tackle to season-ending injuries and starting five QBs.Ryans helped the Houston Texans go from worst to first in the AFC South. The Texans routed the Browns 41-14 in a wild-card playoff game, but voting was completed before the postseason.Stefanski and Ryans both earned 165 points in a weighted point system. But Stefanski had 21 first-place votes to Ryans' 20. Stefanski had 18 second-place votes and six third-place votes. Ryans got 21 second-place votes and two thirds. Detroit's Dan Campbell finished third Ed Westfall Jersey . He got three first-place votes. San Francisco's Kyle Shanahan (3), Baltimore's John Harbaugh (2) and the Rams' Sean McVay (1) also got first-place votes.Schwartz received 25 first-place votes and finished with 160 points, easily outpacing defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald.Hill received seven first-place votes and finished with 139 points. Cowboys wide receiver came in third with 45 points, including one first-place vote. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson got three first-place votes, finishing fourth.McCaffrey, a unanimous choice for All-Pro, led the NFL with 1,459 yards rushing and had 14 rushing TDs for the NFC champion 49ers. He also had 564 yards receiving for seven scores.Cowboys edge rusher finished third for DPOY with 89 points, including seven first-place votes. Cornerback , Parsons' teammate, got the other first-place vote and came in fifth behind edge .Watt, who won the award in 2021, led the NFL with 19 sacks. But Garrett had the better all-around season for the NFL's top-ranked defense.Despite constant double-teams, Garrett had 14 sacks, 30 quarterback hits, 17 tackles for lo s, four forced fumbles and forced offensive coordinators to avoid his side of the field.Bland set an NFL record with five interception returns for a touchdown but was named on only six ballots. He got two second-place votes and three for third to go with the one first.Stroud, the No. 2 overall pick, threw for 4,108 yards, 23 touchdowns, five interceptions and had a pa ser rating of 100.8, third-best by a rookie. He helped the Texans go from worst to first place in the AFC South and led them to a playoff win in the wild-card round.Stroud led the league in pa sing yards per game (273.9) and had the best touchdown-interception ratio at 4.6, becoming just the third player in NFL history to finish first in both categories, joining Joe Montana (1989) and Tom Brady (2007).Nacua set a rookie record with 105 receptions and 1,486 yards receiving yards. tight end finished third.This was the second year of AP's weight point system. For MVP, first-place votes are worth 10 points, second-place votes are five points, third-place votes are three, fourth-place votes are two and fifth-place votes are one.For all other awards, first-place votes are worth five points, second-place votes are three and third-place votes are one.Reporting by The A sociated Pre s. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily. FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience National Football League C.J. Stroud Myles Garrett
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