Just days before potentially stamping their ticket to a Super Bowl, the Patriots saw the fruits of their labor pay off in another way. Even though this is a team game, each year, the NFL hands out several awards on an individual basis. The Patriots' 2025 campaign was so good, though, that they didn't just see head coach Mike Vrabel and quarterback Drake Maye in the final conversation.
We're four weeks into the 2025 NFL season, which can mean only one thing: It's time for my quarter-season NFL awards. (Well, technically my 23.5%-season awards in the 17-game era.) We're still trying to figure out whether most of the league's teams are actually any good, but with most starters having played 150 snaps of football or more, we can start making preliminary insights into who's playing at a really high level in 2025.