It’s been nearly two months since Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett was awarded the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, but the sting and the anger regarding the voting and the presentation of the award to Garrett over teammate T.J. Watt still eats at Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward.
Appearing on the Rich Eisen Show Wednesday, Heyward — who won the Walter Payton Man of the Year award at the same NFL Honors ceremony — stated that Watt was flat-out robbed, especially as a complete player defensively.
“…I think he was robbed of the Defensive Player of the Year,” Heyward said of Watt and the DPOY, according to video via the Eisen Show.