NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl champion quarterback Drew Brees, Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, and NFL draft consultant Gil Brandt are among the winners of the Professional Football Writers of America annual awards.
Brees receives the Good Guy Award that goes to the player who best helped the media do their job.
Zimmer, whose wife, Vicki, died suddenly on Oct. 8 in the family’s home, gets the Halas Award, which is for the individual in the NFL who overcame the most adversity to succeed.
Brandt earns the Horrigan Award honoring a person who helped the media best do their job. He is a former Dallas Cowboys personnel director and now writes for nfl.com.
Longtime columnist Peter Finney of the New Orleans Times-Picayune is the winner of the McCann Award, which honors a PFWA member for long and distinguished service to the profession.
