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17 NFL Defensive Player of the Year winners who finished their careers with other teams

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The Houston Texans released three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year winner J.J. Watt on Friday. The former 2011 first-round pick from Wisconsin will no doubt finish out his Hall of Fame career in another NFL city. However, he isn't the only former Defensive Player of the Year winner to have to pack up and leave the team with which he won the award. Here are 17 other award winners who finished out their careers in NFL cities different from where they won NFL Defensive Player of the Year.