CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Could the Carolina Panthers sweep the two biggest individual awards in the NFL this season?
Only three times in league history have the NFL's Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Year awards gone to the same team.
Only once have teammates won the awards in the same season: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young was the league MVP and cornerback Deion Sanders was the Defensive Player of the Year in 1994.
The other two times one team swept the awards, they went to the same player: defensive tackle Alan Page with the 1971 Minnesota Vikings and linebacker Lawrence Taylor with the 1986 New York Giants.