When Micah Parsons claimed on X, the website that was formerly known as Twitter, that Myles Garrett should have won Defensive Player of the Year instead of Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt, it created quite a stir on Thursday night.
In the end, Garrett defeated Watt by a mere 25 points, with 23 first-place votes to Watt’s 19 first-place votes. Maxx Crosby of Las Vegas, Parsons, and Garrett and Watt came next.
A terrible decision! Myles was the superior athlete! The scenario as it really is! Compared to quarterbacks, Myles faced a lot more double teams! Regarding the situation, Parsons pleaded with the audience to “look at film, please, and stop looking at stuff.
The Steelers player also encountered fewer double teams. You won’t find Garrett’s motivation for winning the prize in conventional counting stats. By tradition of counting metrics, Watt—who took home the honour in 2021—was the NFL’s most statistically dominant defensive player this season. With 19 sacks this season, Watt became the first player to lead the league in sacks for three consecutive seasons since the early 1980s, when the statistic was first made official. This created a new NFL record. Five times in the 1960s, Deacon Jones of the Los Angeles Rams unofficially led the league in sacks. In 2020 and 2021, Watt not only tied the single-season sack records, but also led the NFL in sacks.
Garrett was double-teamed more frequently, yet he prevailed in metrics like pressure rate and pass rush win rate. As a result, Garrett defeated Watt to win his first Defensive Player of the Year Award. Garrett excelled above the league in Pass Rush Win Rate according to those Pro Football Focus measurements. Garrett had the highest win percentage in the league, assessed at 27.3%. Additionally, he received 60 hurries as opposed to Watt’s 47.
When Parsons joined the CBS Sports programme Zach Gelb Show, he went much farther than that. Watt was not among Parsons’ top five picks when asked to rank the NFL’s finest pure pass rushers.
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