HOUSTON -- Ray Lewis couldn't do it. Reggie White couldn't do it. Neither could Bruce Smith or Mike Singletary or Joe Greene.
J.J. Watt did.
The Houston Texans defensive end is now a three-time winner of the Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year award, while Lewis, White, Smith, Singletary and Greene were all two-time winners. In the history of the NFL, only Lawrence Taylor and Watt have won the award three times, and he is the league's first back-to-back winner since 1982 when Taylor did that in his second NFL season.