It looks like the NFL’s Defensive MVP award will come down to San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa and Dallas Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons. While Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy has already vouched for Parsons, Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan thinks that Bosa should win the award – and he doesn’t seem to think it should be particularly close.
This year, Nick Bosa has absolutely dominating, leading the league with 17.5 sacks as well as 42 quarterback hits, which is nine more than the next-best player Las Vegas’ Maxx Crosby. As a result, Shanahan thinks Bosa should win the award.
“He’s been great,” Shanahan said according to Jennifer Lee Chan of NBCSportsBayArea.com. “[DPOY has] been his goal since he can remember making goals, and I know that was a big thing to him this year, how excited he was coming into camp healthy for one of the first times and him just saying how much more he wanted to do because he was healthy.”
Shanahan is so confident that he thinks even if Bosa didn’t even play the last two weeks, he would be “blown away” if he wasn’t named the league’s defensive MVP.
“He’s still young, he’s not perfect,” Shanahan said with a laugh. “He’s got four personal fouls this year. I told him that’s why his Madden awareness rating is 99, not 100. So yeah, he could get better right there. He’s playing at the top of his game. I feel like we could sit him these next two weeks and my mind would be blown if he wasn’t the Defensive MVP.”
It’s certainly high praise for Nick Bosa, but he’s earned it.
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