Comeback Player of the Year: Troy Polamalu Offensive ROY: Ryan Matthews Defensive ROY: Suh Coach of the Year: McCarthy Offensive POY: Matt Schaub Defensive POY: Darrelle Revis MVP: Aaron Rodgers
reconsidered the comment that was originally here and reworked it below NFL awards in general annoy me with the comeback award being by far the worst one. It is obvious that the writers themselves are at odds as to what constitutes the term "coming back".
Comeback Player of the Year- Troy Polamalu Offensive ROY- Ryan Mathews Defensive ROY- Ndamukong Suh Coach of the Year- Mike Singletary Offensive POY- Aaron Rodgers Defensive POY- Darrelle Revis MVP- Aaron Rodgers
The following is an old comment that I re-post whenever the comeback player of the year is mentioned. I just never bother to update it. ********************************************* It is a misconception that the award only goes to a player who overcame injury or a personal issue. The award can go to someone who was healthy, but rarely played due to being a backup and it can also go to someone who was not in the league at all the prior season. What you see below was originally written by me in 2006. I'm too lazy to update it. Associated Press Comeback Player of the Year Award winners- 1998- Doug Flutie 1999- Bryant Young 2000- Joe Johnson 2001- Garrison Hearst 2002- Tommy Maddox 2003- Jon Kitna 2004- Drew Brees 2005- Steve Smith and Tedy Bruschi What they came back from: Flutie- was out of the league for seven years Young- career-threatening injury that cost him final four games of 1998 season Johnson- missed entire 1999 season Hearst- missed entire 1999 and 2000 seasons Maddox- played in only three games from 1996-2001 Kitna- played in 14 games in 2002, started 12 of them; had 79.1 rating; "led" Bengals to 2-14 record started all 16 games in 2003; had 87.4 rating; led Bengals to 8-8 record; threw 10 more TDs and 1 fewer INT in 2003 than he did in 2002 Brees- was terrible in 2003 (11 TDs, 15 INTs, 67.5 rating); led Chargers to playoffs in 2004 (27, 7, 104.8) Smith- played in only one game in 2004 Bruschi- suffered career-threatening stroke three days after Pro Bowl following the 2004 season PFW/PFWA Comeback Player of the Year winners- 1972- Earl Morrall 1973- Roman Gabriel 1974- Joe Namath 1975- Dave Hampton 1976- Greg Landry 1977- Craig Morton 1978- John Riggins 1979- Larry Csonka 1980- Jim Plunkett 1981- Ken Anderson 1982- Lyle Alzado 1983- Billy Johnson 1984- John Stallworth 1985- no award given 1986- Joe Montana and Tommy Kramer 1987- Charles White 1988- Greg Bell 1989- O.J. Anderson 1990- Barry Word 1991- Jim McMahon 1992- Randall Cunningham 1993- Marcus Allen 1994- Dan Marino 1995- Jim Harbaugh 1996- Jerome Bettis 1997- Robert Brooks 1998- Doug Flutie 1999- Bryant Young 2000- Joe Johnson 2001- Garrison Hearst 2002- Tommy Maddox 2003- Jon Kitna 2004- Willis McGahee 2005- Steve Smith
Bruschi played 16 games in 2004, but only 9 in 2005. On the surface it looks extremely odd that Bruschi won the comeback player of the year award for his 2005 season. I suppose that if Bruschi could win the award for '05, then Welker could win it this year even though I could not vote for Welker. The comeback player of the year award is definitely the most ridiculous one because there have been all sorts of reasons why players have won it. Some played all 16 games one year and then the next year they didn't play all the games, but they came back. What do you mean the guy came back? He played more games the year before. Bruschi missed 7 games in the 2005 season and then came back during the season. So maybe somebody who misses almost half of the 2010 season could win this award? Maybe Darren Sharper will be the top candidate then. How about Santonio Holmes? He's missing the first four game. Maybe he'll come back.
It would be awesome if LT got comeback player of the year, but we all know it's probably going to be Wes Welker.
Offensive ROY: CJ "the AFC EAST killer" Spiller Defensive ROY: Rolando Mcclain Coach of the Year: Sean Payton Offensive POY: Peyton Manning Defensive POY: Patrick Willis MVP: Peyton Manning
