This stat is a little more obscure but a good offseason fit for an offseason stats of the weird edition. The fine folks over at Pro Football Journal have been tracking the history of AP Player Award voting and yesterday, put together a list of the leaders in not just Defensive Player of the Year awards but votes.
TJ Watt doesn’t yet find himself at the top but he’s cracked the top ten. According to PFJ’s John Turney, here’s the top ten list of vote getters in the award’s history.
1. Bruce Smith – 156
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