Matt Ryan is coming off his most statistically impressive performance of the season, one that saw him pilot this team to a win over the Saints. Unsurprisingly, he’s up for FedEx Air Player of the Week as a result of that effort.
Ryan’s up for the honor alongside Justin Herbert and Carson Wentz, with Herbert and Ryan each managing around 350 yards and a pair of touchdowns and Wentz mixing 272 yards with three touchdowns. Ryan beat the Saints, so that should count for more in my humble opinion.
Ryan has previously won this honor several other times—an exhaustive list is a bit hard to come by, but he won at least once in 2010, 2012, 2012, 2013 and 2016—and was also the FedEx Air Player of the Year in 2016.