The reigning Defensive Player of the Year has a new home, but injury is going to take a toll on his chances of repeating. Myles Garrett won the AP NFL DPOY award unanimously in 2025, receiving all 50 first-place votes after breaking the single-season sack record with 23 sacks. That was the second DPOY win of his career, and he trails only Lawrence Taylor, J.J. Watt and Aaron Donald for the most DPOY awards in NFL history, with each of those names nabbing the award three times. Both Watt and Donald won three in the span of four years, and while Garrett opened the year favored to do just that, a...
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