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After becoming just the second player in franchise history to win Defensive Player of the Year honors, cornerback Pat Surtain II is focused on what’s next.<\/p>\n
And while he’s still focused on achieving individual accolades as he enters 2025, his primary focus is on the Broncos finding a higher level of team success. Following a run to the postseason in 2024, Surtain has his sights set on the NFL’s ultimate prize.<\/p>\n
“There’s always something out there to do better,” Surtain said. “Why not get another one? Why not get more All-Pros? \u2026 But I think the main goal is to win the Super Bowl, at the end of the day. That’s why I play the game, is to win. I think that’s the end goal for me.”<\/p>\n
As Surtain and the Broncos aim to find that level of success, he pointed to the team’s free-agent acquisitions of safety Talanoa Hufanga and linebacker Dre Greenlaw as critical additions for an already impressive defensive unit.<\/p>\n
“Those guys are going to come in and bring that winning atmosphere,” Surtain said. “They’ve been to Super Bowls. They know how to win at a high level. So, adding that to the team will only make our team even better.”<\/p>\n
Surtain said as the Broncos approach the season amid increased expectations, the team’s mindset is to avoid riding the highs and lows of a season and to prioritize “doing the simple things right” as a team.<\/p>\n
“We try to stay level-headed, stay grounded, be where our feet are and just grind and perfect our craft each and every day,” Surtain said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lead After becoming just the second player in franchise history to win Defensive Player of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,5109,6,8206,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-170821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-mile-high-morning","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patrick-surtain-ii","17":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114773420003086356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}