Barnwell's NFL quarter-season awards: The top candidates to win MVP, Rookie of the Year, more

We're 4 weeks into the 2025 NFL season, which tin mean lone 1 thing: It's clip for my quarter-season NFL awards. (Well, technically my 23.5%-season awards successful the 17-game era.)

We're inactive trying to fig retired whether astir of the league's teams are really immoderate good, but with astir starters having played 150 snaps of shot oregon more, we tin commencement making preliminary insights into who's playing astatine a really precocious level successful 2025. These are my picks for who deserves to triumph awards aft 4 weeks, arsenic opposed to my predictions of who volition really triumph the awards astatine the extremity of the season. I'm paying attraction to what the voters typically prefer, but this is based solely connected what I've recovered by watching portion and looking intimately astatine the numbers aft 4 games. If there's thing unsocial astir however I'm considering the candidates for a peculiar award, I'll notation that successful the instauration for that award.

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This should beryllium acquainted to you if you've been a longtime reader, but there's thing caller for everyone: the Protector of the Year award, which volition spell to the champion violative lineman successful the NFL. I'll deed that, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year connected some sides of the ball, Player of the Year awards for defence and offense, and yet my prime for MVP.

Jump to an award:
DROY | OROY | Protector of the Year
Coach of the Year | DPOY | OPOY | MVP

Defensive Rookie of the Year

This has been a funny commencement to the play for the league's antiaircraft rookies. None has much than 1 sack. That limits the involvement I mightiness person successful nominating walk rushers, who are usually the favorites to triumph this award. Some of our unit metrics hint toward much productive days up for players including Browns antiaircraft tackle Mason Graham (who ranks sixth successful the NFL successful walk unreserved triumph complaint connected the interior) and Giants borderline rusher Abdul Carter (who had a monolithic time successful the Week 4 win implicit the Chargers). But I'm not definite immoderate walk rusher has the assemblage of enactment to fertile successful the apical 3 for this award.

That would propulsion things to the secondary, wherever the evident favourite earlier the play would person been two-way uber-prospect Travis Hunter. Instead, Hunter is disconnected to a muted commencement arsenic a pro, racking up 118 receiving yards done 4 games with the Jaguars portion playing little than 40% of the snaps astatine cornerback. Hunter has not made overmuch of an interaction arsenic Read Entire Article