While the NFLPA selected Atlanta’s Cordarrelle Patterson, who had just nine kick returns in 2022, as their first-team All-Pro, the Associated Press has named the Green Bay Packers’ Keisean Nixon the top kick returner in football for the 2022 season. He was the lone Packers named first-team All-Pro, but cornerback Jaire Alexander was named to the second team.
According to the Packers’ Wes Hodkiewicz, Nixon earned 44 of the potential 50 first-place votes for the kick returner spot. Second in the running was the Minnesota Vikings’ Kene Nwangwu.