Joe Burrow finished the 2024 season accomplishing what no quarterback has done in over a decade
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow exits the 2024 NFL regular season with not one, but two AFC Offensive Player of the Month honors. Burrow was named December/January's winner on Wednesday. Burrow's final six weeks of the season featured 1,890 passing yards, 16 passing touchdowns, and a completion percentage of 76.2%. The Bengals went 5-1 with […]
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow exits the 2024 NFL regular season with not one, but two AFC Offensive Player of the Month honors. Burrow was named December/January's winner on Wednesday.
Burrow's final six weeks of the season featured 1,890 passing yards, 16 passing touchdowns, and a completion percentage of 76.2%. The Bengals went 5-1 with Burrow leading the charge, and that one loss was on a day the offense scored 31 points with three passing TDs from their franchise QB.
This is Burrow's second AFC Offensive Player of the Month award. His first was earned earlier in the season for the month of November. The only other Bengals player to win the honor twice was his predecessor, Andy Dalton, but Dalton never won it in back-to-back months like Burrow.
You'd have to go back to before the last Mayan calendar reset to find the last quarterback who accomplished that feat.
Joe Burrow joins another exclusive QB list
Since the inception of the Player of the Month awards in 1986, only four quarterbacks have ever been named the AFC or NFL Offensive Player of the Month in back-to-back months. One of them did it twice, and everyone has heard of him before.
- 1994: Steve Young (November, December)
- 1998: Vinny Testaverde (November, December)
- 2007: Tom Brady (September, October)
- 2011: Aaron Rodgers (September, October, November), Tom Brady (November, December)
- 2024: Joe Burrow (November, December/January)
Yep, the last to do it was Brady himself. Rodgers, the only other active QB on this list aside from Burrow, is the only quarterback to ever win the award three consecutive times. Barry Sanders was the first offensive player to ever achieve that in 1997.
In total, Burrow is the 14th offensive player to go back-to-back. Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp and Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor got it done during the 2021 season. Both of those players were also First Team All-Pros, but that may not be in the cards for Burrow this year with Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and most likely to garner those votes. Burrow was voted to his second Pro Bowl along with Allen and Jackson last week.
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