DENVER (KDVR) — A participant for the Denver Broncos was topped with one in all The Related Press’ 2025 NFL Honor awards on Thursday night.
4 Broncos had been finalists for awards introduced on the NFL Honors in New Orleans this yr — coach Sean Payton was nominated for AP Coach of the 12 months, cornerback Pat Surtain II was nominated for AP Defensive Participant of the 12 months, quarterback Bo Nix was nominated for AP Offensive Rookie of the 12 months and inside linebacker Alex Singleton was nominated for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the 12 months award.
AP Defensive Participant of the 12 months: CB Pat Surtain II
Cornerback and workforce captain Pat Surtain II is including AP Defensive Participant of the 12 months to his award assortment. He was additionally just lately named Defensive Participant of the 12 months by the Professional Soccer Writers of America and was named the AFC Defensive Participant of the Month for November, amongst different awards.
Surtain turned the primary cornerback to win the respect since Stephon Gilmore in 2019.
This season was Surtain’s fourth consecutive season in Denver. The Broncos mentioned he recorded double-digit passes defensed and matched his profession excessive in interceptions, amongst different spectacular statistics.
Surtain acquired 26 first-place votes; Trey Hendrickson completed second with 11 first-place votes and Cleveland Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett had 5.
Surtain thanked his mother and father — his father, Patrick Surtain Sr., is a former NFL cornerback — for “setting the blueprint, and turning a younger man right into a grown man.”
He additionally thanked the Broncos, as Denver coach Sean Payton nodded within the viewers, “for believing in me, trusting me, permitting me to develop and be the participant I’m at present.”
The Related Press contributed to this story.
