{"id":562,"date":"2018-02-06T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/?p=562"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:52:32","slug":"nfl-2018-player-award-winners-tom-brady-wins-his-third-mvp-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/nfl-2018-player-award-winners-tom-brady-wins-his-third-mvp-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL 2018 Player Award Winners &#8211; Tom Brady Wins His Third MVP Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>NFL 2018 Player Award Winners<br \/>\nRams and Saints Win Double Player of the Year and Rookie Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Most Valuable Player:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nTom Brady, QB, New England Patriots<br \/>\nOldest Player (40) ever to win the MVP Award<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nJ.J. Watt, DE, Houston Texans<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Watt raised over $37 million for Hurricane Harvey victims<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photo \u2013 DE J.J. Watt &#8211; Houston Texans<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Offensive Player of the Year<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nTodd Gurley, RB, Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Defensive Player of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAaron Donald, DT, Los Angeles Rams<br \/>\nFirst time two players from same team won Player of Year awards<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frank Coyle and staff of DraftInsiders.com has scouting info including updates and in depth Senior Bowl Game and Practice evaluation, Top 100 Prospects in the February Newsletter (19 pages) Available Now<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Offensive Rookie of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAlvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Defensive Rookie of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMarshon Lattimore, CB, New Orleans Saints<br \/>\nFirst time since 1967 Lions that two Rookies from same team earned Awards<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Comeback Player of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nKeenan Allen, WR, Los Angeles Chargers<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Deacon Jones Award:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nChandler Jones, LB, Arizona Cardinals<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nLuke Kuechly, LB, Carolina Panthers<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Coach of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSean McVay, Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Assistant Coach of the Year:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nPat Shurmur, OC, Minnesota Vikings<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Printer Friendly<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NFL 2018 Player Award Winners Rams and Saints Win Double Player of the Year and Rookie Awards Most Valuable Player:\u00a0 Tom Brady, QB, New England Patriots Oldest Player (40) ever to win the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/nfl-2018-player-award-winners-tom-brady-wins-his-third-mvp-award\/\" title=\"NFL 2018 Player Award Winners &#8211; Tom Brady Wins His Third MVP Award\">  [read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nfl-headlines","7":"tag-draft-insider-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}