Armed with a new contract, Ryan Kerrigan can now set his sights on making history for the Washington Redskins. The outside linebacker can become the first Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year award winner in franchise history.
It's one of the more remarkable statistical anomalies that the Redskins have never had an AP Defensive POY winner since the award came into being in 1971, per Pro-Football-Reference.
Granted, the franchise has often been best defined by talented players on the other side of the ball, men like Art Monk, Larry Brown and John Riggins.