I know it’s twisting the knife at this point since T.J. Watt’s already lost to Myles Garrett for the official Defensive Player of the Year Award, but Watt lost again in a recent polling of NFL executives. Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer asked front offices around the league to vote for each award, MVP to Rookie of the Year. When it came to DPOY, Garrett won easily.
According to the voting, Garrett received 16 of 29 first-place votes. Watt finished in a distant second with eight of them, less than 30 percent. Dallas Cowboys LB Micah Parsons and Baltimore Ravens LB Roquan Smith each received two votes while Kansas City Chiefs CB L’Jarius Sneed received one.