2022 NFL Honors -- Who won the league's biggest awards?

The NFL held its annual awards show, hosted by Keegan-Michael Key, on Thursday at the YouTube Theater at the SoFi Entertainment District in Inglewood, California, right by the site of Super Bowl LVI. The Los Angeles Rams (12-5) will play the Cincinnati Bengals (10-7) at SoFit Stadium on Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, NBC).

Along with MVP, the NFL's Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, the Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year, the Coach of the Year and the Comeback Player of the Year are also being named on Thursday night.

Here's a look at who took home all the awards and why:

T.J. Watt, OLB, Pittsburgh Steelers: Despite missing two full games and parts of several others due to injury, Watt finally captured his first DPOY award after capping off an historic season with 22.5 sacks, tying Michael Strahan's 2002 single-season sack record in the final regular-season game. It was a record-setting year from the beginning, when Watt became the NFL's highest-paid defensive player mere days before the season opener. He earned every penny as a game-wrecking pass rusher, including a big performance in the Steelers' first meeting with the Baltimore Ravens, in which he sacked quarterback Lamar Jackson 3.5 times and affected Jackson's throw on the would-be, game-winning 2-point conversion. «He is a game changer and a game wrecker,» quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said during the season. «To be a literal game changer on defense is something completely special, and he should be recognized. I don't know who else is the Defensive Player of the Year other than that guy. I'm sure there are other candidates, I just don't know. But he should absolutely get MVP votes as well because that's what kind of a player he is.» — Brooke Pryor

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