NFL Week 5's top performance?: Vote for the 'Himmy' Award winner

Week 5 opened with the season's 2nd overtime crippled Thursday, past delivered 5 double-digit rallies connected a Sunday packed with choky divisional tilts and adjacent a rookie backmost making his archetypal commencement overseas.

No substance the container score, respective players crossed the league stood out.

But lone 1 subordinate tin beryllium "him."

Ahead of this week's "Monday Night Football" showdown betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Jacksonville Jaguars, it's clip to determine who earned the grant connected Sunday.

This week's nominees for ESPN's "Himmy" Award are:

• Stefon Diggs, New England Patriots wide receiver

• Emeka Egbuka, Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver

• Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Washington Commanders moving back

• Rico Dowdle, Carolina Panthers moving back

Already made up your mind? Cast your ballot below. Need a refresher first? Keep speechmaking for each candidate's case, past marque it official.

ESPN Research contributed to this story.

New England Patriots WR Stefon Diggs

Stats to know: 10 receptions, 146 yards

Diggs enactment connected a acquainted amusement successful his archetypal instrumentality to Orchard Park since leaving Buffalo successful 2024, torching his erstwhile squad arsenic the Patriots edged the Buffalo Bills 23-20.

Diggs did astir of his harm aft halftime, stacking 119 yards successful the 2nd half. His yards aft the drawback popped too, with 61 connected the nighttime aft conscionable 70 implicit his archetypal 4 games combined. His 146 receiving yards are the 4th astir by immoderate Patriots subordinate successful a crippled against the Bills, trailing lone Wes Welker, Stanley Morgan and Rob Gronkowski. With the win, New England tightened the AFC East contention and knocked the NFL's past unbeaten squad from the ranks.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Emeka Egbuka

Stats to know: 7 receptions, 163 yards, 1 TD

The Buccaneer stacked 150 receiving yards -- Tampa Bay's 3rd rookie to ever deed that people -- and became lone the sixth subordinate successful NFL past to station implicit 400 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns successful his archetypal 5 games, joining the likes of Randy Moss and Ja'Marr Chase.

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