Along with most awards, the Defensive Player of the Year Award winner for the 2019 season will not be announced until the NFL Honors ceremony, which takes place the day before the Super Bowl. In other words, we still have a while yet before we know who wins the award this year.
And Pittsburgh Steelers fans are more invested than they are typically because, of course, they understand that they have a horse in the race this year, really for the first time in a good while. The last strong candidate they had was Troy Polamalu in 2010, when he actually won.