NFL Week 1's top performance? Check the fan-voted 'Himmy' Award leaderboard

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  • ESPN staffSep 8, 2025, 08:48 PM ET

Week 1 of the 2025 NFL play has delivered clutch moments astir the league with established stars and breakout names sealing comebacks and turning adjacent games into blowouts.

But lone 1 subordinate tin beryllium "him."

Ahead of this season's "Monday Night Football" debut betwixt the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings, it was clip to determine who earned it.

Here are the fan-voted results for ESPN's NFL Week 1 "Himmy" Award

Need a refresher of each performance? Keep speechmaking for each candidate's case.

Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen

Stats to know: 33-of-46, 394 yards, 2 TDs; 14 carries, 30 yards, 2 TDs

Trailing 40-25 with 5 minutes left, Buffalo looked to beryllium heading to a home-opening nonaccomplishment against the Baltimore Ravens connected Sunday night.

But Allen authored the comeback, engineering 3 precocious scoring drives, capped disconnected by Matt Prater's 32-yard tract extremity for the 41-40 win. Allen posted a career-best 251 fourth-quarter passing yards positive 2 rushing touchdowns to go the archetypal subordinate since astatine slightest 1978 with 250 passing yards and 2 rushing scores successful immoderate azygous quarter.


Pittsburgh Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers

Stats to know: 22-of-30, 244 yards, 4 TDs

Rodgers led Pittsburgh to a 34-32 win implicit the Jets with a composed, four-touchdown show successful his Steelers debut. Two of those scores came wrong a 50-second span successful the 2nd half.

Down 32-31 with conscionable implicit 3 minutes remaining, Rodgers moved the discourtesy into Jets territory, aided by an 11-yard tip-drill drawback by DK Metcalf. That bid acceptable up Chris Boswell's go-ahead, career-long 60-yard tract extremity with 1:03 left.

In the end, Rodgers avoided turnovers, deed cardinal throws and closed retired a precocious triumph against his erstwhile team.


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