Bills' Dion Dawkins has a suggestion for the NFL to acknowledge the big men up front, and it's entirely overdue
Dion Dawkins continues to be a voice of passion and reason that the NFL desperately needs, and his latest conquest is long overdue.Dawkins is now taking up the mantle of getting an "Offensive Lineman of the Year" award instituted in the NFL, and he's absolutely right that it should be a thing. "The thing for […]
Dion Dawkins continues to be a voice of passion and reason that the NFL desperately needs, and his latest conquest is long overdue.
Dawkins is now taking up the mantle of getting an "Offensive Lineman of the Year" award instituted in the NFL, and he's absolutely right that it should be a thing.
"The thing for an individual that is a part of this league to be able to get an award for being great. And I'll circle back on, you know, offensive linemen don't have awards for being great. You know, there's not a "Protector of the Year" award. I'm knocking at so many doors now to get this award going. And I'm gonna head spear and make sure that this gets done before I'm done playing. Because there's so many greats. There's so many greats. And if we have great quarterbacks, we have great running backs, we have rushing titles, we have quarterback passing titles — all those titles are reflections of the old lineman, which are the protectors."
As someone that loves the trenches and firmly believes that the offense can only go as far as the offensive line takes them, I absolutely believe that this award needs to be a thing.
Offensive linemen need to get more recognition, and although he didn't advocate specifically for himself, he's one of the ones that deserves more love. His athleticism and physicality, as well as his intelligence about what opposing defenses are attempting to do, makes him an incredible asset to Josh Allen and the Bills offense.
Nether Dawkins now right tackle Spencer Brown were named to the Pro Bowl or to first or second team All Pro, but what they and the rest of the line have done against two of the best defensive fronts in the NFL through the first two weeks of the playoffs have the Bills primed to give the Chiefs a big challenge in the AFC Championship Game.
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