Before Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium, the NFL held its 2026 Honors ceremony at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts to recognize the season’s top performers. Below are the award winners and the reasons they earned each honor.
Most Valuable Player Matthew Stafford | QB | Los Angeles Rams At 37 and in his 17th NFL season, Stafford paced the league with 4,707 passing yards and 46 touchdowns, posting a 5.8 touchdown-to-interception ratio. He finished 313 yards and 15 scores ahead of runner-up Drake Maye. Stafford also produced an eight-game stretch without an interception and threw 28 consecutive touchdown passes — the longest streak of touchdown passes without an interception since play-by-play tracking began in 1978 — cementing a late-career statistical peak that landed him the MVP.
Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett | DE | Cleveland Browns Garrett set a new single-season sack mark with 23 sacks, eclipsing the record formerly held by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. He reached that total despite being double-teamed or chipped on 39.5% of his pass-rush snaps (the highest rate among edge rushers) and added 33 tackles for loss — the second-most since 2000. His blend of relentle
