The Broncos have selected linebacker Wesley Woodyard as their Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award recipient for the second consecutive season. Woodyard was notified of the honor in a team meeting (see above photo) Thursday morning.
The award recognizes a player for outstanding leadership both on the field and in the community.
Woodyard, who is in his fourth consecutive year as a team captain, works to improve the lives of children through his 16Ways foundation and through the NFL Play 60 initiative. He has organized two fundraising events for the foundation – an MVP dinner held at Sullivan’s Steakhouse in Denver and his annual toy drive at the Denver Aquarium.
The team will honor Woodyard during Sunday’s game vs. New England, and a $10,000 donation will be made on his behalf to the charities of his choice. Woodyard’s name will be submitted to the NFL for consideration as the national award winner, which is announced during Super Bowl week. That national winner will receive a $25,000 donation to the organization of his choice courtesy of NFL Charities.
Previous Broncos nominees for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award include Champ Bailey (2008-09), cornerback Domonique Foxworth (2007), wide receiver Rod Smith (2006 and ’04), safety John Lynch (2005), linebacker Ian Gold (2003) and wide receiver Ed McCaffrey (2002).
Quarterback John Elway is the only Broncos player to win the national award, which was first given in 1970 and renamed after the Chicago Bears’ Pro Football Hall of Fame running back in 1999.
Tags: Awards, Walter Payton Man of the Year, Wesley Woodyard
This has been a brutal work week for me, and I’m WAY behind on my bronco bloggin’… What’s up Bronco Country?? Are you ready for some FOOTBALL???
I read today that ‘Dawk & Goody might play on Sunday, I hope that they can both go, we’ll need everyone we can get back there vs. Brady.. I also look forward to Royal having a good game, so that all the haters can eat crow… Yeah, you know who you are…
I don’t get a daily newspaper here,small town only prints a newspaper once a week,so Bay’s posts are what I read in the mornings along with a big cup of coffee…kudos to Bay and his work on here,it is very well appreciated by many,especially me!
I may not always post back,but you can bet I read every morning….well sometimes not early Saturday morning,if you know what I mean…lol j/k.
GO BRONCS!!!!!!!!!!!
BFE
90 hours 58 minutes till Bronco Football….
ooops… that’s not right… but 91+ hours till Bronco Football… I’m sick of waiting… (excuse the Cowboy Math)
You guys are welcome, actually I do it for guys like BFE who don’t have the time like me to go through the gymnastic of sifting through the Broncos day news in the am and I just pick parts that are relevant to my way of looking at my Broncos mainly from the Denver media who is well more educated about it than the national one and add tidbits here and there to try to keep it entertaining.
And you are right about one thing DB, we are totally different but that doesn’t mean that I do not respect how you lead your life, it’s just that on this website, the official home of the Denver Broncos, even so everyone enjoys all the freedom of speech the moderators will allow us it is sometimes best to channel the blog back to football as we have seen from experience how far it can stray if we let it and even get to some real dark places with some if we accept anything and everything.
And I am very thankful that you have been respectful of my request that I do not wish to enguage with you into any psycho analysis of eachother’s personality or beliefs, religious or others, nor do I care to have any discussions about at all on this Bronco medium. I do all that in the real world in my real life with the real people who are part of it.
This to me is strictly the lighter side of life, a place to discuss Bronco football and solely have fun with it, nothing more, hence I try to entertain with various competitions and morning news with a spin, that’s what it is for me, Bronco football entertainment and nothing else and thanks again for respecting that.
And for the newbies here, as far as the blog being slow these days, it happens every year in and around Christmas, it has nothing to do with what the Broncos do or don’t do, it’s just this real busy time of the year where many bloggers attend to things much more important than the blog, and even people who don’t have a job like I find themselves too busy to be able to blog as much. But I’m here still every early morning for your daily Bronco news with a spin, LOL.
Just wanted to jump in and talk a little about the Pats game. I believe the 4th quarter conditioning will come into play here but I for one am hoping they go to a little “hurry up” O early in this one. Early in this streak they would start their first drive with a couple of long throws to stretch the D then go to the ground and pound for the rest of the half. This never really helped the Pass offense get into a good rhythm early in the games.
Perhaps a little more of a “balanced offense” (where have we heard that before?) would be in order here. Especially on second down. It seems that they run about the same second down run up the middle every time.
Bay I sometimes forget things that you just mentioned, and I respect it I have not always seen eye to eye with you but I meant what I said earlyer in the season, YOU ARE SIMPLY THE MOST KNOWLEDGABLE BLOGGER ON THIS SIGHT PERIOD. Now back to foot ball. Tim should not have a(ny problems with this D of the Pats….No one else really has. He has shown that on two occasions he could put up the big points, both times against pretty good D,s( the Vikes are not bums at all on D as the pro bowl voteing shows clearly ) They really scared me while I was voteing and we had to play them that weekend, with that said, HOW BOUT THAT DEFFENSE WE HAVE!!! Brady’s only hope is we don’t T Bone his @$$!! He can’t hurt us with his backside on the ground(or from the sidelines) and from games in the past he don’t like to be rushed either..Sooo I would say that this briings up our secondary which is clearly comeing along swimmingly, no I like our chances in this game. with Great special teams play we shred these guys..My prediction is 34-27 Broncos…..NOW TO WES WOODYARD, WELL DONE MAN YOU ARE A CREDIT TO THIS TEAM ON AND OFF THE FIELD( something we have been without for several years ie D.Williams, marsha marsha Marshal and Snake and Jay—-bone heads all) YOU ARE A CREDIT TO YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR TOWN, YOUR TEAM AND ALL THE KIDS YOU TAKE TIME OUT TO MENTOR AND SET THE EXAMPLE TO….WELL DONE….NOW GO AND LAY A YARD OF WOOD TO THOSE PATS, YOUR DO FOR A SACK AND TOM TERRIFIC IS THE PERRRFECT TARGET GO GET THEM CAPTAIN, AND ALL THE BRONCOS, I’M DAMN GLAD YOU ALL REPRESENT OUR BELOVED DENVER BRONCOS, GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thank you Crush.
i love you,denver broncos