The Best NFL Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since

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to the

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player adjudged to be the best in a given

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, namely in the NFL season immediately precedent to the holding of the ESPY Awards ceremony. Between 1993 and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, the award voting panel comprised variously fans;

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s and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired

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s, termed collectively ''experts''; but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the

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from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous. In 2014, Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos became the first 3-time winner breaking a tie with Barry Sanders, Brett Favre, Marshall Faulk. Aaron Rodgers would later surpass him in 2017 when he won his fourth. The award wasn't awarded in

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due to the

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Winners

Player was a member of the winning team in the

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.
Player was a member of the losing team in the Super Bowl.
* NFL MVP
† Super Bowl MVP

Multiple-time winners

References

* {{ESPYs ESPY Awards NFL trophies and awards

Winners

Multiple-time winners

See also

References