Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith and running back Kareem Hunt both earned multiple nominations for the weekly awards known as the FedEx Air and FedEx Ground players of the week through all 17 weeks of the NFL’s regular season. It’s not a surprise, then, to see that both players are also named as finalists for the annual awards given out at year’s end.
The weekly awards honor the most productive passer and rusher of the week in football, and FedEx also makes contributions to the U.S.O., the military support organization, in each player’s name. The same is true of the yearly awards, as the U.