Exclusive; TJ Watt Goes Viral With Cryptic Tweet After NFL Award Snub
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker TDJ Watt is already playing a starring role. He could end up with quite a chip on his shoulder next season. That possibility appears to have surfaced when Watt posted a cryptic tweet on Feb. 8 during the NFL awards ceremony.
“There’s nothing I haven’t learned,” Watt X (formerly of Twitter) wrote. The tweet was viewed more than 3 million times in about 12 hours after Watt posted it.
The NFL had not yet announced the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award when Watt posted his tweet. However, Twitter users read tweets saying Watt was upset about finishing second in the NFL Defensive Player of the Year voting.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Myles Garrett accepted the award. Watt is now tied for second in two Defensive Player of the Year awards. The award was also received in 2021. Steelers’ TJ Watt finished second to Myles Garrett for Defensive Player of the Year.
Fans and the media spent much of the offseason debating Watt and Garrett for Defensive Player of the Year honors. The debate is expected to continue even after Garrett’s victory. As expected, the NFL honor vote between Garrett and Watt was close. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Garrett received 165 votes to Watt’s 140. In addition, Garrett received 23 votes and Watt received 19 votes.
In the 12 hours since the NFL Awards, the Watt vs. Garrett largely came down to the team’s draft. Steelers fans stood in Watt’s corner while Browns fans defended Garrett’s win.
Prominent members of the Steelers media, such as Mark Kaboli of The Athletic and Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports, criticized the voters for not choosing Watt as the Defensive Player of the Year.
,Statistically, it’s hard to disagree. Watt is ahead of Garrett in every traditional major category heading into the 2023 season.
However, Garrett did well in analysis. Pro Football Focus ranks Garrett as the best defensive player in the NFL in 2023 with an average rating of 93.6. Watt ranked sixth with a score of 91.9. Cameron Hayward won the Walter Payton Person of the Year Award.
Steelers fans were largely outraged by Watt’s criticism, but the team saw one of its players receive the award on February 8.
Defensive lineman Cameron Hayward won the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. The NFL recognizes this award as its highest honor. The award recognizes players who have demonstrated outstanding service and performance to their communities off the field. The Steelers defensive lineman founded Hayward House in 2015. The foundation fights childhood hunger, supports students and teachers, helps children with literacy and fights cancer. Hayward also helped create other foundations that provide clothing, libraries and meals to brain cancer patients and underserved communities.
Each team nominates a player to compete for an award. The league then announces the final three nominees at the annual NFL awards ceremony.
Hayward was nominated six times for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. He is the first Steelers player to win the award since Jerome Bettis in 2001.
Hayward is also the fifth Steelers player to receive the honor. All four previous players with Betis (Franco Harris, Joe Green, Lynn Swann, etc.) are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“[Walter Payton] has done so much on and off the field and changed so many lives, so I have the opportunity to be part of the great brotherhood of Walter Payton finalists and winners,” Hayward said in his acceptance speech . Say. , via NFL.com. “I know I will continue to do this and be successful.
“I can’t run as fast as Walter. I won’t try, but I’ll do my part.
