As the New Year begins and the 2021 NFL regular season starts to come to an end, writers all over the country will begin to pen their end-of-the-season awards, first and second-team honors, and everything in between.
The first of these opinion-based articles (at least from what I saw) came from NFL’s Gil Brandt.
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Brandt, the former vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys (1960-1989), did the unthinkable and put two Miami Dolphins rookies on his 2021 Defensive All-Rookie Team. Here’s what the 2019 Hall of Famer had to say about the 18th overall pick, Jaelan Phillips.