The New England Patriots nominated Devin McCourty for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award — the safety’s fourth nomination from his franchise.
The Walter Payton award — for which McCourty was previously nominated in 2014, 2015 and 2018 — honors a player for “outstanding community service activities off the field, as well as excellence on the field.”
McCourty’s resume is lengthy. As laid out by the Patriots in a press release, he is a member of the Players Coalition Task Force, Chair of the Players Coalition Education and Economic Advancement Committee. He was also an advocate for several successful pieces of legislation in Massachusetts.