Last month, a NFL.com panel of analysts picked Dallas Cowboys LB Micah Parsons to win Defensive Player of the Year over the Pittsburgh Steelers T.J. Watt. Now, a group of NFL executives agrees with them. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler took a poll from around the league to predict football’s 2024 award winners with Parsons again getting the nod over Watt.
Unlike the NFL.com poll, there’s no voting tabulation so we don’t know how far ahead Parsons was from the group. But the early consensus seems to be that Parsons is “due” to win the award just in the way Cleveland Browns DL Myles Garrett was a season ago despite Watt having better baseline stats.