{"id":398257,"date":"2022-07-18T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=398257"},"modified":"2022-07-18T05:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:06:17","slug":"3-biggest-droy-candidates-for-the-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/3-biggest-droy-candidates-for-the-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"3 biggest DROY candidates for the 2022 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Not every defensive rookie can produce the same impact as Aaron Donald in 2014, but the Defensive Rookie of the Year (DROY) award always makes for a good discussion. Chances are bigger if you&#8217;re a pass rusher, but this year&#8217;s list of favorites also contains a cornerback who has a good shot.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>The recent list of DROY winners includes names as <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nfl\/nfl-team-detail\/DAL\/roster\">Micah Parsons<\/a>, Chase Young, Nick and Joey Bosa. If you win the award, you&#8217;re probably destinated to a great career at the pros.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Check out the three biggest candidates for the DROY award:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>#1 &#8211; Aidan Hutchinson, Detroit Lions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hutchinson was all set to be the draft&#8217;s first overall pick&#8230; until he wasn&#8217;t. The Jacksonville Jaguars decided to go with the bigger upside, which means rejoice for the Detroit Lions, as Hutchinson is more pro-ready and can be a difference maker right from day one. While he&#8217;s not as flashy athletically, he has great fundamentals and he should get a high number of sacks when the season starts, which will help him get some recognition from league fans and the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Brockers has &quot;a lot of respect&quot; for Lions rookie Aidan Hutchinson: &quot;He is a man that&#39;s on a mission&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuITC3Mjg9\">https:\/\/t.co\/FuITC3Mjg9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BspMuUvzk0\">pic.twitter.com\/BspMuUvzk0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AroundTheNFL\/status\/1546474888692629505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>#2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ny-giants-kayvon-thibodeaux-claims-hes-ready-to-go-ahead-of-training-camp-opening\/\">Kayvon Thibodeaux,<\/a> New York Giants<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A lot of things help Thibodeaux&#8217;s case to get the award here. He&#8217;s going to play in a bigger market than Hutchinson, which always helps players get some awards because of the media; the Giants&#8217; front seven also should help him a lot more than in Aidan&#8217;s case. Thibodeaux has enough talent to produce right from the start and, as a top 1o pick, talent isn&#8217;t a concern &#8211; he can play instantly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oregon Defensive Lineman with the highest career pass rush win rates<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd86 Kayvon Thibodeaux: 18.9%<br \/>\ud83e\udd86 Brandon Dorlus: 15.1% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NLgIani9Dx\">pic.twitter.com\/NLgIani9Dx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PFF College (@PFF_College) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF_College\/status\/1546148991372492807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>#3 &#8211; Ahmad Gardner, New York Jets<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just like in Thibodeaux&#8217;s case, the fact that Gardner plays in a big market will be helpful in his case to be the defensive rookie of the year &#8211; although we&#8217;re used to seeing the DROY award won by pass rushers. The cornerback did not allow a single touchdown over the last two collegiate seasons and he has fantastic technique to lockdown opposing players, even though he&#8217;s not that athletic. A good rookie season will see pundits asking for the award to be given to him almost instantly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Next Gen Stats&#39; 2022 Can&#39;t Miss Prospects<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Breece Hall, RB<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Tyler Linderbaum, C<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Aidan Hutchinson, EDGE<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Evan Neal, OT<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Ahmad Gardner, CB<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Kayvon Thibodeaux, EDGE<br \/>\ud83d\udd39 Ickey Ekwonu, OT<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When the numbers match the tape&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Analysis \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RLw6vvPRqo\">https:\/\/t.co\/RLw6vvPRqo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RJBhiwGkSu\">pic.twitter.com\/RJBhiwGkSu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextGenStats\/status\/1519743391248003072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>More NFL News:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/3-biggest-dpoy-candidates-for-the-2022-season\/\">3 biggest DPOY candidates for the 2022 season<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/3-biggest-opoy-candidates-for-the-2022-season\/\">3 biggest OPOY candidates for the 2022 season<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/3-biggest-mvp-candidates-for-the-2022-season\/\">3 biggest MVP candidates for the 2022 season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every defensive rookie can produce the same impact as Aaron Donald in 2014, but the Defensive Rookie of the Year (DROY) award always makes for a good discussion. Chances are bigger if you&#8217;re a pass rusher, but this year&#8217;s list of favorites also contains a cornerback who has a good shot. The recent list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":386978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,66,144,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions","category-new-york-giants","category-new-york-jets","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}