2025 NFL Awards: List of every winner, Detroit Lions who received a vote

Did any Detroit Lions players or coaches come home with any 2024-25 NFL Awards?

The Detroit Lions had 11 players, coaches, and former coordinators who were nominated in several categories at this year’s NFL Awards. It’s an impressive number of representatives and puts a cap on a record-setting regular season.

All awards were voted on by 50 different NFL writers based on players’ and coaches’ performances from the 2024-25 regular season. Each voter selects five individuals for each award and orders them from first to fifth place. Each first-place vote earns that individual 10 points, second place gets five points, then three, two, and one respectively.

Let’s take a look at the results.

Most Valuable Player: Bills QB Josh Allen

• Bills QB Josh Allen: 27 first-place votes, 383 total points
• Ravens QB Lamar Jackson: 23 first-place votes, 362 total points
• Eagles RB Saquon Barkley: 0 first-place votes, 120 total points
• Bengals QB Joe Burrow: 0 first-place votes, 82 total points
• Lions QB Jared Goff (5th): 0 first-place votes, 47 total points

While Goff didn’t win MVP, it was reported that his wife, Christen, is pregnant and expecting the couple’s first baby—making them the real winners of the night.

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Coach of the Year: Vikings Kevin O’Connell

• Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell: 25 first-place votes, 361 total points
• Lions HC Dan Campbell: 19 first-place votes, 283 total points
• Chiefs HC Andy Reid: 4 first-place votes, 119 total points
• Broncos HC Sean Payton: 1 first-place vote, 71 total points
• Commanders HC Dan Quinn: 1 first-place vote, 85 total points

Boooo! For more on this snub, check out what Jeremy Reisman had to say about this result .

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Assistant Coach of the Year: Lions OC Ben Johnson

• Lions OC Ben Johnson: 29 first-place votes, 364 total points
• Vikings DC Brian Flores: 3 first-place votes, 143 total points
• Lions DC Aaron Glenn: 6 first-place votes, 110 total points
• Eagles DC Vic Fangio: 3 first-place votes, 109 total points
• Bills OC Joe Brady: 2 first-place votes, 73 total points

According to the Associated Press, of the 11 coaches who have won this award, Johnson is the sixth winner to become a head coach in the same offseason, joining DeMeco Ryans (2022), Vic Fangio (2018), Pat Shurmur (2017), Kyle Shanahan (2016), and Todd Bowles (2014).

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Offensive Player of the Year: Eagles RB Saquon Barkley

• Eagles RB Saquon Barkley: 35 first-place votes, 406 total points
• Ravens QB Lamar Jackson: 12 first-place votes, 183 total points
• Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chase: 0 first-place votes, 171 total points
• Ravens RB Derrick Henry: 1 first-place vote, 92 total points
• Bengals QB Joe Burrow: 1 first-place vote, 78 total points
• Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs (8th): 0 first-place votes, 21 total points
• Lions QB Jared Goff (9th): 0 first-place votes, 5 total points
• Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown (14th): 0 first-place votes, 2 total points
• Lions OT Penei Sewell (15th): 0 first-place votes, 2 total points

The Lions having four players nominated for this award is pretty amazing, especially considering no other team had more than two. Also, shout out to Tom Brady and Tedy Bruschi, who had the guts to put Sewell on their lists .

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Offensive Rookie of the Year: Commanders QB Jayden Daniels

• No Lions nominated

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Defensive Player of the Year: Broncos CB Patrick Surtain

• Broncos CB Patrick Surtain: 26 first-place votes, 330 total points
• Bengals EDGE Trey Hendrickson: 11 first-place votes, 205 total points
• Browns EDGE Myles Garrett: 5 first-place votes, 162 total points
• Steelers EDGE T.J. Watt: 3 first-place votes, 114 total points
• Eagles LB Zack Baun: 2 first-place votes, 63 total points
• Lions S Kerby Joseph (6th): 1 first-place vote, 60 total points

Joseph led the league in interceptions in 2024, but it wasn’t enough to get him into the top five. Aidan Hutchinson, who was the leading candidate to win the award before breaking his leg and ending his season prematurely, was in attendance. He and Goff were spotted chatting with Myles Garrett—who just announced he wanted to be traded—which surely won’t be overblown by fans and media.

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Defensive Rookie of the Year: Rams EDGE Jared Verse

• Lions CB Terrion Arnold (15th): 1 fifth-place vote, 1 point

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Comeback Player of the Year: Bengals QB Joe Burrow

• Bengals QB Joe Burrow: 31 first-place votes, 370 total points
• Chargers RB J.K Dobbins: 3 first-place votes, 195 total points
• Vikings QB Sam Darnold: 8 first-place votes, 102 total points
• Bills DB Damar Hamlin: 3 first-place votes, 86 total votes
• Patriots CB Christian Gonzalez: 2 first-place votes, 69 total points
• Lions WR Tim Patrick (6th): 3 first-place votes, 67 total points
• Lions WR Jameson Williams (21st): 0 first-place votes, 2 total points

After two seasons in Denver cut short due to injury, Patrick found new life in Detroit and made the most of his opportunity, earning a starting role and playing in 16 straight games.

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NFL Fan of the Year: Congrats to Lions’ own Megan Stefanski!