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Myles Garrett wins AP Defensive Player of the Year and C.J. Stroud is top offensive rookie

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February 09, 2024
ROB MAADDI - AP

LAS VEGAS (AP) โ€” Myles Garrett beat out T.J. Watt for the AP Defensive Player of the Year award announced at NFL Honors on Thursday night.

Clevelandโ€™s All-Pro edge rusher received 23 first-place votes and 165 points to Wattโ€™s 19 first-place votes and 140 points from a nationwide panel of voters that includes media members who regularly cover the NFL, former players and coaches.

First-place votes are worth five points, second-place votes are three and third-place votes are one.

Myles Garrett wins AP Defensive Player of the Year and C.J. Stroud is top offensive rookie
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C.J. Stroud won the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award in a landslide. The Houston Texansโ€™ quarterback received 48 of 50 first-place votes with Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua getting the other two.

Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz won the AP Assistant Coach of the Year award after guiding the leagueโ€™s No. 1 ranked unit.

Schwartz received 25 first-place votes and finished with 160 points, easily outpacing Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald.

Dallas Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons finished third for Defensive Player of the Year with 89 points, including seven first-place votes. Cornerback DaRon Bland, Parsonโ€™s teammate, got the other first-place vote and came in fifth behind Raiders edge Maxx Crosby.

Myles Garrett wins AP Defensive Player of the Year and C.J. Stroud is top offensive rookie
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Watt, who won the award in 2021, led the NFL with 19 sacks. But Garrett had the better all-around season for the NFLโ€™s top-ranked defense.

Despite constant double-teams, Garrett had 14 sacks, 30 quarterback hits, 17 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles and forced offensive coordinators to avoid his side of the field.

Bland set an NFL record with five interception returns for a touchdown but was named on only six ballots. He got two second-place votes and three for third to go with the one first.

Stroud, the No. 2 overall pick, threw for 4,108 yards, 23 touchdowns, five interceptions and had a passer rating of 100.8, third-best by a rookie. He helped the Texans go from worst to first place in the AFC South and led them to a playoff win in the wild-card round.

Myles Garrett wins AP Defensive Player of the Year and C.J. Stroud is top offensive rookie
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Stroud led the league in passing yards per game (273.9) and had the best touchdown-interception ratio at 4.6, becoming just the third player in NFL history to finish first in both categories, joining Joe Montana (1989) and Tom Brady (2007).

Nacua set a rookie record with 105 receptions and 1,486 yards receiving yards. Lions tight end Sam LaPorta finished third.

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