Handing out NFL awards for 2. Comeback Player of the Year to MVPWith the NFL regular season over, it's time for all kinds of important activities to begin. NFL teams couldn't even wait until the day after the season to start firing coaches, but that will happen (officially) Monday. The playoffs are just five days away, but neither the Raiders nor the Texans have any idea who will be starting for them under center when the postseason kicks off Saturday. One other important project: awards balloting. The NFL and The Associated Press will hand out their picks for several important trophies during the annual NFL Honors ceremony the night before the Super Bowl, but we're not going to wait. Now that all the action under consideration for these awards is in the books, let's hand out a few statues for the 2. For context, here are my quarter- season and midseason awards columns. This one operates the same way: I'm picking the player who I think deserves the award given the typical way the electorate treats the voting, even if it's not the most logical way to vote for an award or the player who I think is most likely to actually win the award in the real balloting. In other words, even though I don't understand how a quarterback who wins MVP can't also be the Offensive Player of the Year, I'm keeping those awards separate. With the ground rules in place, here are my picks: Comeback Player of the Year. Top candidates: Melvin Gordon, RB, Chargers; Jimmy Graham, TE, Seahawks; De. Marco Murray, RB, Titans; Jordy Nelson, WR, Packers; Cameron Wake, DE, Dolphins. Injuries that were seen as career- threatening or even career- ending in years past are beginning to look survivable. A 3. 4- year- old coming off a torn Achilles such as Wake might have been left on the scrap heap in years past. 2016 set a global heat record for the third year in a row; A record El NiThe Best illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier illusion research community. Contestants from all. One Penn Square West 30 S. 15th Street, Suite 900 Philadelphia, PA 19102. Donald Trump wants to cancel Air Force One order from Boeing, citing 'out of control' costs topping $4 billion. One Show and ADC Deadlines Extended. The One Club for Creativity, the world’s foremost non-profit organization celebrating creativity in advertising and design. Instead, Wake finished with 1. Terrell Suggs was useful after suffering his second Achilles injury. Gordon made it back from a disappointing rookie year and a microfracture procedure on his knee to serve as the workhorse of an injury- riddled Chargers offense (until he went down again in December). And both Graham and Victor Cruz recovered from patella injuries, with Graham returning and producing 1. Seattle. Jordy Nelson didn't just come back, he registered numbers that would have you think he never left. AP Photo/Matt Ludtke. Torn ACLs aren't quite as devastating as those other injuries were in 2. Nelson had a full year to recover after tearing up his knee during the 2. His 2. 01. 6 numbers - - 9. If anything, Nelson would be expected to decline given the typical receiver aging curve and the fact that he's now in his age- 3. Comeback might be the wrong word: It's like Nelson never left. Winner: Jordy Nelson. Defensive Rookie of the Year. Top candidates: Eli Apple, CB, Giants; Joey Bosa, DE, Chargers; Keanu Neal, S, Falcons; Yannick Ngakoue, DE, Jaguars; Jalen Ramsey, CB, Jaguars. This is really a two- person race to me. Apple, Neal and Ngakoue have each been useful for their respective teams, with Apple notably pushing Dominique Rodgers- Cromartie out of the starting lineup, but they're in a second tier alongside the likes of Artie Burns, Karl Joseph and De. Forest Buckner. It's a big group of players who haven't been consistent, haven't been healthy, and/or haven't put together Pro Bowl- caliber stretches of play for lengthy periods of time. There are two rookies who have looked like two of the better players in football at their respective positions for most of 2. Ramsey hasn't gotten much hype by virtue of playing for a struggling Jaguars team, but outside of producing takeaways, he has been quite good. The fourth overall pick has shown the ability to primarily play outside but also hold up in the slot while mostly guarding the opposing team's No. That sort of skill set puts Ramsey in a group with players like Chris Harris Jr. Even more impressively, Ramsey has been great as a rookie at a position where even the best veterans often struggle during their debut seasons. Teams are already avoiding him when the Jags do play sides in lieu of sticking Ramsey on the other team's best guy. Ramsey also gets credit for playing a full 1. Bosa, suited up for only 1. While Ramsey has had the occasional stinker, though - - Jacksonville's ugly loss against Tennessee on national television comes to mind - - Bosa has pretty much been one of the best pass- rushers in football from the moment he stepped onto the field. In those 1. 2 games, he has produced 1. Chandler Jones (1. Watch what Jones gets in free agency this offseason and remember that Bosa is locked up for the next three years at just over $2. I'll give the nod to Bosa here because his impact has been more tangible. The Chargers were fifth in pass- defense DVOA heading into Week 1. Eric Weddle away in free agency and losing starting cornerbacks Brandon Flowers and Jason Verrett for most of the season. San Diego has received a great season from free- agent acquisition Casey Hayward, and Melvin Ingram has had a productive contract year across from Bosa, but the rookie is the one who stands out on a weekly basis. He's arguably the biggest building block on a frustrating but promising Chargers team heading into 2. Winner: Joey Bosa. Offensive Rookie of the Year. Top candidates: Jack Conklin, RT, Titans; Ezekiel Elliott, RB, Cowboys; Tyreek Hill, WR, Chiefs; Dak Prescott, QB, Cowboys; Michael Thomas, WR, Saints. It's hard to think of a rookie class more productive on offense in recent years than this one, and that's without even getting to Jordan Howard, Taylor Decker or Carson Wentz. Thomas became arguably the focal point of the Saints' offense when he was healthy from Week 1. Julio Jones alone among wideouts. Conklin played at a Pro Bowl level during his debut season as a right tackle. And Hill's 9. 5- yard punt return on Sunday gave him eight touchdowns of 3. And yet we all know this award is coming down to Zeke vs. There's no wrong choice in picking between Dallas' two star rookies. Neither did much in the Cowboys' meaningless Week 1. Eagles. Prescott threw eight passes on Dallas' first two possessions before giving way to Tony Romo, while Elliott was active but never stepped onto the field. We have to judge them on their first 1. Each benefited from both the incredible Dallas offensive line and the presence of each other; the threat of Prescott as a runner helped keep backside defenders at bay and created cutback lanes for Elliott, while Elliott's success created throwing lanes and play- action opportunities for Prescott. Dak posted the league's second- best QBR (8. Zeke's performance this season took some pressure off other Dallas stars, such as No. Tom Pennington/Getty Images. I don't think there's a fair way to really compare the two to each other. They each had their worst game of the season in one of Dallas' two competitive losses, both to the Giants. Elliott was a mess during Dallas' season- opening loss, carrying the ball 2. It was perhaps more telling that Zeke put together a typically effective performance (2. Giants in Week 1. Cowboys still scored only seven points because Prescott had his worst game of the season, but that's weirdly giving Prescott credit for having a disappointing performance. Instead, we have to really gauge their abilities by comparing Prescott and Elliott to the competition at their respective positions. A tie here or anything close would go to Prescott, given the positional value of playing quarterback, so Elliott has to be notably ahead of his backfield mate. I compared Elliott to David Johnson earlier this season in a comparison I'll touch on again in a moment, and Le'Veon Bell is also in the discussion for best running back in football. They all have similar levels of volume in terms of overall touches, but Zeke has been the most efficient back of the three as a runner. He's third in the league in yards per attempt among guys with 2. Week 1. 7. Prescott, too, is one of the best passers in football on a rate basis. He finished the year third in passer rating (1. QBR (8. 1. 6), ranking behind only Matt Ryan and Tom Brady for most of that stretch. Any perception that he slowed late in the season really amounts to a two- game blip against the excellent defensive lines of the Vikings and Giants; he was third in the league in QBR during Weeks 1. The problem for Prescott with these awards is volume. Elliott got the rock as much as any back in football this season. Prescott was hyperefficient when he did throw the ball, but he finished the season 2. Prescott did run the ball 5. It's not Prescott's fault the Cowboys were winning, but these are awards based on production more than anything else. The difference in workload is enough to push the second- most- difficult award to judge toward Dallas' star running back. Winner: Ezekiel Elliott. Coach of the Year. Top candidates: Bill Belichick, Patriots; Jack Del Rio, Raiders; Jason Garrett, Cowboys; Adam Gase, Dolphins; Dan Quinn, Falcons. Future generations are going to look back and wonder how Bill Belichick won Coach of the Year only three times in 1. New England. Keep in mind that he didn't win the award in 2. Brady to an 1. 1- 5 record and the AFC East crown, with the electorate instead handing the award to Dick Jauron of the 1. Bears in a move that has not aged well. We simply take Belichick and New England's success for granted, even in a season in which Brady was suspended for the first month. Belichick did get Brady for 1. Patriots were so successful. And while the turnaround produced by Del Rio has been remarkable, can it really be more impressive than what Garrett has done in Dallas? The Cowboys lost their starting quarterback indefinitely during training camp, and his backup, and had to turn to a rookie fourth- round pick in Prescott, a move with few parallels and precious little likelihood of succeeding without a dominant defense. Welcome to Hydro One. Hydro One News. Hydro One Reports Positive Fourth Quarter Revenue and Operating Cost Trends - February 1. 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