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Sacramento-area native and Jaguars defensive lineman Arik Armstead has won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award for the 2024 NFL season.

Arik Armstead, whose Armstead Academic Project supports early childhood education, was selected as the Walter Payton Man of the Year on Thursday night.

NEW ORLEANS – The NFL announced this evening that Jacksonville Jaguars DE Arik Armstead was named the 2024 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. The award is the league's most prestigious honor, recognizing NFL players who have exhibited excellence on the field and whose passion to impact lives extends beyond the game.

The Walter Payton Man of the Year Award is considered the most prestigious honor in the NFL. The 2025 winner is Arik Armstead of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jaguars DE Arik Armstead is the 2024 Walter P

For the second time, a Jacksonville Jaguars player has won Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, an award that annually recognizes an NFL player for outstanding community service activities off the field, as well as excellence on the field.

Jaguars defensive lineman Arik Armstead has won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. The award is given out annually to recognize an NFL player for his excellence on and off the field. The award was established in 1970 and was renamed in 1999 after the late Hall of Fame running back,

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Arik Armstead was named the Walter Payton Man of the Year at the NFL Honors Thursday night. Nominees for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award feature one player from each NFL team,

Armstead, who openly discusses how his difficulty reading as a child made him self-conscious, routinely visits schools and reads to children as part of his mission to ensure young students of all socio-economic backgrounds have access to adequate educational resources.