Forget the Defensive Player of the Year award, Micah Parsons is being touted as a dark horse for MVP.
Dallas Cowboys · LB
He’s the longest of long shots, because the last time a defensive player won MVP it was 1986, nearly 40 years ago, and the one to do it was Lawrence Taylor, merely the greatest defensive player in history. That’s a pretty high bar to reach, and Parsons is much more likely to secure a Defensive Player of the Year award. But Parsons is also a star, a disruptive and productive game wrecker on the league’s most high-profile team.