While a couple of other organizations began handing out a version of the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award a few years before the Associated Press first did so in 1971 (others still do), the ...

Hutchinson was well on his way to earning AP Defensive Player of the Year last season before fracturing his fibula and tibia ...

having earned the Associated Press 2024 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. The Los Angeles Rams standout reportedly wants to help out on the other side of the ball, too. "Defensive Rookie of ...