2025 NFL Midseason Awards
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Doing your midseason awards at the exact midpoint of the season might be cool, but you know what's even cooler? Doing them 55.6% of the way through the season. And that's exactly what Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman do at the midway point, plus one week. Who's the Offensive Player of the Year, Jonathan Taylor or Jaxon Smith-Njigba? Can anyone challenge Myles Garrett for the Defensive Player of the Year crown? And who's the MVP. We hand out all the awards—not only those three, but also Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year, Protector of the Year, Coach of the Year, Assistant Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year—on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:32 Offensive Player of the Year
12:55 Defensive Player of the Year
27:28 Offensive Rookie of the Year
35:53 Defensive Rookie of the Year
42:22 Protector of the Year
49:01 Coach of the Year
58:43 Assistant Coach of the Year
1:07:55 Executive of the Year
1:14:40 MVP
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.4 | Me, Derek, and Dave did our mid-season awards today. |
| 0:11.2 | Really, really enjoyed a bunch of these conversations. |
| 0:13.3 | I think it's such a cool year for awards chatter just because of how surprising so many |
| 0:18.6 | of the best performances in the league have been. |
| 0:21.1 | We talked about the group of guys up for MVP this year, which is a shocking collection |
| 0:25.0 | of players considering where we were before the season. |
| 0:27.6 | It's a fun defensive player of the year discussion this year. |
| 0:30.6 | A two-man race for offensive player of the year that I did not expect to look like this. |
| 0:34.4 | Coach of the year was a really good one. |
| 0:36.7 | So we had a bunch of different answers. |
| 0:39.1 | I think a lot of really fun cases made over the course of this show. |
| 0:42.6 | So let's just get to it. |
| 0:44.3 | Midseason awards, me, Derek Classen, Dave Hellman. |
| 0:47.0 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 0:53.6 | Midseason awards time on the old athletic football show. I've been looking forward to this one. This is the first midweek show. I think all three of us have done from the studio this year. Is that not correct? You and I did Team Tears together. I think this is the first midweek show, not counting previews, that all three of us have done together period i think that's right i think so i |
| 1:11.9 | don't think even when i was back home i don't think we did any of these all three of us together i'm very |
| 1:16.7 | excited for this conversation just a quick heads up i'm sure there are some of you who listened to me on |
| 1:21.4 | football 301 last week picking awards with nate for reasons that some legitimate some just for the sake of content, I have all |
| 1:30.7 | different choices. You're switching. Oh, you're switching up. I'm switching almost all of them. |
| 1:34.4 | There's only one. There's two, two to three actual answers that I'm sticking with as like, |
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