Russell Wilson would probably tell you himself: this is so much better than an MVP vote.
The day before the Super Bowl, the NFL made Wilson the biggest winner of the weekend, announcing him as the recipient of the 2020 Walter Payton Man of the Year award.
Each year the league honors one player for “outstanding community service activities off the field as well as excellence on it.”
Wilson centered his acceptance speech around his father, who died in 2010. “Dad, I remember you telling me in the car one day, ‘Son, love changes things.