2025: Bobby Wagner takes the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award

Bobby Wagner has been named the 2025 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year after a season with Washington Commanders.

Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year.

He finished 5th in the league in tackles with 162.

Front offices are already looking past this. The cap sheet, the draft capital and the option years are the levers, and the clubs that pull them early are the clubs that stay in the window.

The interesting argument is not who won it but how far clear the winner finished, and on that the voters were close to unanimous.