Trivia
- Players from the University of Miami and USC have won the award the most times (six).
- The Detroit Lions have won the most Rookie of the Year awards (7). Detroit has won four offensive ROTYs and three defensive ROTYs.
- Running backs have won 30 out of 44 Offensive ROTY awards, or 68%.
- Linebackers have won nearly half of the Defensive ROTY awards (21 out of 43)
- Only six quarterbacks have won the award, and none from 1971 to 2003.
- The Eagles, Jaguars, and Seahawks are the only franchises to never have a player win either award.
- 1967 marked the only year that one team won both awards, as the Lions took home the Offensive (Mel Farr) and Defensive (Lem Barney) trophies.
- Buddy Curry & Al Richardson are the only co-winners; both Atlanta Falcons linebackers won the 1980 Defensive ROTY award.
- Fourteen players who have won the ROTY award are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Five first overall draft picks have won the ROTY award (All Offensive).
- The top two draft picks have won Offensive ROTY and Defensive ROTY in the same season three times: 1981, 2010 and 2011.
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