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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH, Texas — Micah Parsons will win the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. And he should be the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year, too, but don’t plan on a sweep. A handful of voters will run from this because they won’t want to put someone in the exact same category as former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who won both awards in 1981. He is the only player in the history of the NFL to achieve this feat. People who regard LT as the best defensive player ever — and he is — may be leery of putting anyone in the exact same sentence. (FYI: There are 50 voters for these aw…