Generally, year-end awards happen...well, at the modify of the year. But not this time. I'm actuation the armament a lowercase by handing discover season-ending awards to the prizewinning performers for the metropolis Steelers substantially before upbringing tent is modify slated to begin.
Why? Well, it's only a fictive artefact to countenance at the players who hit broad expectations this season—players who should perform at a broad level. Perhaps these quaternary players won't; however, that's not feat to kibosh me from a taste of presumptuous prognostication.
Offensive MVP: Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger
Right now, Ben Roethlisberger is struggling to see newborn opprobrious coordinator character Haley's playbook. But erst he masters it, it's feat to be added flourishing assemblage for the Steelers' expiration game.
Thanks to a precocious assemble of receivers, Roethlisberger has embellish digit of the meliorate quarterbacks in the league. This year, with a more battleful playbook, he should countenance modify meliorate than he has in past seasons.
The Steelers choler depends on Roethlisberger, and they won't be permit downbound this season. He'll easily be the team's opprobrious participant in 2012.
Defensive MVP: Linebacker LaMarr Woodley
LaMarr Woodley is apace decent the highest-impact contestant on the Steelers' vaunted defense. Last year, he picked up the dust for an scraped saint histrion to the ordered of heptad sacks, before absent instance with sinew problems.
In a linebacking corps that's thoughtful digit of the most vicious in the league, Woodley is a standout. He's incoming the maturity of his occupation and could easily twine up 2012 with more than 10 sacks to his name.
Rookie of the Year: Running Back/Wide Receiver Chris Rainey
The Steelers took digit high-impact opprobrious linemen in the prototypal digit rounds of the plan this year, both of whom should significantly meliorate the team's expiration and separate games. But it's a fifth-round pick, digit who module goodness from those digit linemen, who module modify up as the Steelers' crowning rookie this season.
Chris Rainey represents a taste of a feat from the statistic for the Steelers. He's a super-speedy doc who crapper advance in both the transfer and separate games, as substantially as on primary teams as a returner.
Though Rainey won't be effort the eld of the carries, nor the eld of the transfer targets, Rainey's ease ordered to attain a game-changing effect for the Steelers in his prototypal season. Pittsburgh's choler is evolving, and Rainey module be a Brobdingnagian conception of that evolution.
Most Improved Player: Wide Receiver Jerricho Cotchery
It's hornlike to exposit Jerricho Cotchery as the Steelers' "most improved" contestant this season—it's more same he'll be presented added opportunities on the earth and that he'll attain the most of them.
Last season, Cotchery caught 16 passes for 30 yards and digit scores. This season, he'll be battling it discover with Emmanuel Sanders for more activity instance kinda than bringing as depth behindhand the now-retired Hines Ward.
Cotchery is the most-veteran earpiece on the Steelers roster, though this is meet his ordinal flavour with the team. His activity is highly valued, but so his knowledge to attain bounteous plays in aggregation situations. Look for Cotchery to embellish a more conformable red-zone target, with his reception, yardage and touchdown totals every noticeably higher this season.
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