For the better part of the past two decades, the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year award (CPOY) has largely been dominated by quarterbacks and wide receivers.
This is especially true since 2016, where two wide receivers won the award back-to-back (Jordy Nelson, Keenan Allen) and four quarterbacks have won consecutively since; Andrew Luck, Ryan Tannehill, Alex Smith and most recently, Joe Burrow.
In 2014, Rob Gronkowski became the first tight end ever to win CPOY. In 2015, Eric Berry followed him in becoming the first ever safety to take home CPOY honors. Before that, however, saw seven quarterbacks and two wide receivers win the award over a nine-year period.