{"id":426114,"date":"2026-01-22T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:35:10","slug":"drake-maye-mike-vrabel-other-patriots-among-nfl-awards-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426114\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Maye, Mike Vrabel, Other Patriots Among NFL Awards Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots will presumably be taking home some hardware in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye, Stefon Diggs, TreVeyon Henderson and Josh McDaniels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriots.com\/news\/six-patriots-named-ap-award-finalists-ahead-of-nfl-honors-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:were all listed among the finalists;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">were all listed among the finalists<\/a> for the 2025 Associated Press NFL Awards that were revealed on Wednesday. If you can\u2019t put the pieces together, here\u2019s the full list.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Patriots\u2019 AP Award Finalists<br \/>NFL MVP: Drake Maye<br \/>Offensive Player of the Year: Drake Maye<br \/>Coach of the Year: Mike Vrabel<br \/>Assistant Coach of the Year: Josh McDaniels<br \/>Comeback Player of the year: Stefon Diggs<br \/>Offensive Rookie of the Year: TreVeyon Henderson<\/p>\n<p>New England was only shut out of two major categories: Defensive Player of the Years and Defensive Rookie of the Year.It\u2019s hard to come up with names that could realistically be considered for those two awards (sorry, Craig Woodson), but all of their finalists not only make sense, but have a case to actually win.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>FanDuel and Draftkings did not carry odds in the immediate aftermath of the finalists announcement, but at one time, Maye, Vrabel and Henderson were <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-drake-maye-mike-vrabel-among-award-odds-favorites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:among the two favorites;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">among the two favorites<\/a> for MVP, COTY and OROY, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots will hope to hear some of those names called at the NFL Honors on Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco \u2014 though they will not want to be in attendance as they very well could be preparing for Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n<p>More Patriots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/mike-vrabel-sends-clear-message-to-patriots-milton-williams-ahead-of-afccg\/\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mike Vrabel Sends Clear Message To Patriots\u2019 Milton Williams Ahead OF AFCCG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">  Mike Vrabel Sends Clear Message To Patriots\u2019 Milton Williams Ahead OF AFCCG <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots will presumably be taking home some hardware in 2026. Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye, Stefon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,56085,2221,178047,23065,19260,1718,514,45607,5886,82,13956,7266],"class_list":["post-426114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-craig-woodson","tag-drake-maye","tag-josh-mcdaniels","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-mvp","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-stefon-diggs","tag-treveyon-henderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}