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Steelers MVPs since 1969
1969 – Roy Jefferson, WR
1970 – Joe Greene, DT
1971 – Andy Russell, LB
1972 – Franco Harris, RB
1973 – Ron Shanklin, WR
1974 – Glen Edwards, S
1975 – Mel Blount, CB
1976 – Jack Lambert, LB
1977 – Terry Bradshaw, QB
1978 – Terry Bradshaw, QB
1979 – John Stallworth, WR
1980 – Donnie Shell, SS
1981 – Jack Lambert, LB
1982 – Dwayne Woodruff, CB
1983 – Gary Anderson, K
1984 – John Stallworth, WR
1985 – Louis Lipps, WR
1986 – Bryan Hinkle, LB
1987 – Mike Merriweather, LB
1988 – David Little, LB & Rod Woodson, CB
1989 – Louis Lipps, WR
1990 – Rod Woodson, CB
1991 – Greg Lloyd, LB
1992 – Barry Foster, RB
1993 – Rod Woodson, CB
1994 – Greg Lloyd, LB
1995 – Neil O’Donnell, QB
1996 – Jerome Bettis, RB
1997 – Jerome Bettis, RB
1998 – Levon Kirkland, LB
1999 – Levon Kirkland, LB
2000 – Jerome Bettis, RB
2001 – Kordell Stewart, QB
2002 – Joey Porter, LB & Hines Ward, WR
2003 – Hines Ward, WR
2004 – James Farrior, LB
2005 – Casey Hampton, NT & Hines Ward, WR
2006 – Willie Parker, RB
2007 – James Harrison, LB
2008 – James Harrison, LB
2009 – Ben Roethlisberger, QB
2010 – Troy Polamalu, S
2011 – Antonio Brown, WR
2012 – Heath Miller, TE
2013 – Antonio Brown, WR
2014 – Le’Veon Bell, RB
2015 – Antonio Brown, WR
2016 – Le’Veon Bell, RB
2017 – Antonio Brown, WR
2018 – JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR
2019 – T.J. Watt, LB
2020 – T.J. Watt, LB
2021 – T.J. Watt, LB
2022 – Minkah Fitzpatrick, S
2023 – T.J. Watt, LB
2024 – T.J. Watt, LB
2025 – Kenneth Gainwell, RB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers MVPs since 19691969 – Roy Jefferson, WR1970 – Joe Greene, DT1971 – Andy Russell, LB1972 – Franco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9747,564,563,73,75,74,565],"class_list":{"0":"post-76564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-non-sponsored","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sights-and-sounds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}