{"id":83119,"date":"2025-05-27T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/83119\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:03:09","slug":"joe-burrow-selected-as-pfwas-2025-george-halas-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/83119\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow Selected as PFWA’s 2025 George Halas Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow<\/a>, who had an outstanding season in 2024 after missing most of the second half of the 2023 season after a wrist injury, was selected as the 2025 George Halas Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA).<\/p>\n

Burrow, the 57th Halas Award winner, is the third member of the Bengals franchise to receive the honor from the PFWA, joining Tim Krumrie (1990) and Mike Zimmer (2010).<\/p>\n

Other 2025 finalists for the Halas Award were Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold and Los Angeles Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins.<\/p>\n

The Halas Award is given to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed. The award is named for Halas, a charter member (1963) of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, who was associated with the Chicago Bears and NFL from their inception in 1920 until his death in 1983 as an owner, manager, player and promoter. Halas won 324 games and six NFL titles in 40 seasons as a coach.<\/p>\n

The Halas Award is one of the two oldest awards presented by the PFWA, along with the Bill Nunn Jr. Award, presented to a reporter who has made a long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage.<\/p>\n

Burrow suffered a season-ending wrist injury in the 10th game of the 2023 season, which required surgery and an extensive rehab process. He returned to action in time to start the 2024 preseason opener, and he went on to set Cincinnati regular season team records while leading the NFL in passing attempts (652), completions (460), passing yards (4918) and TD passes (43). Burrow was twice named the AFC Offensive Player of the Month (November, December\/January), and he was voted as the PFWA’s 2024 Comeback Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

GEORGE HALAS AWARD WINNERS<\/p>\n

(To the NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed) Year indicates when award was presented for previous season: 1969 \u2013 Joe Namath (New York Jets); 1970 \u2013 Gale Sayers (Chicago Bears); 1971 \u2013 Tom Dempsey (New Orleans Saints); 1972 \u2013 Jimmy Johnson (San Francisco 49ers); 1973 – Mike Tilleman (Atlanta Falcons); 1974 \u2013 Dick Butkus (Chicago Bears); 1975 \u2013 Rocky Bleier (Pittsburgh Steelers); 1976 \u2013 Billy Kilmer (Washington Redskins); 1977 \u2013 Tom DeLeone (Cleveland Browns); 1978 \u2013 Pat Fischer (Washington Redskins); 1979 \u2013 Bert Jones (Baltimore Colts); 1980 \u2013 Roger Staubach (Dallas Cowboys); 1981 \u2013 Rolf Benirschke (San Diego Chargers); 1982 \u2013 Joe Klecko (New York Jets); 1983 \u2013 Eddie Lee Ivery (Green Bay Packers); 1984 \u2013 Ted Hendricks (Los Angeles Raiders); 1985 \u2013 John Stallworth (Pittsburgh Steelers); 1986 \u2013 Gary Jeter (Los Angeles Rams); 1987 \u2013 William Andrews (Atlanta Falcons); 1988 \u2013 Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers); 1989 \u2013 Karl Nelson (New York Giants); 1990 \u2013 Tim Krumrie (Cincinnati Bengals); 1991 \u2013 Dan Hampton (Chicago Bears); 1992 \u2013 Mike Utley (Detroit Lions); 1993 \u2013 Mark Bavaro (Cleveland Browns); 1994 \u2013 Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers); 1995 \u2013 Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins); 1996 \u2013 Larry Brown (Oakland Raiders); 1997 \u2013 Jim Harbaugh (Indianapolis Colts); 1998 \u2013 Mark Schlereth (Denver Broncos); 1999 \u2013 Dan Reeves (Atlanta Falcons); 2000 \u2013 Bryant Young (San Francisco 49ers); 2001 \u2013 Kerry Collins (New York Giants); 2002 \u2013 Garrison Hearst (San Francisco 49ers); 2003 \u2013 Robert Edwards (Miami Dolphins); 2004 \u2013 Sam Mills (Carolina Panthers); 2005 \u2013 Mark Fields (Carolina Panthers); 2006 \u2013 Tony Dungy (Indianapolis Colts); 2007 \u2013 Drew Brees (New Orleans Saints); 2008 \u2013 Kevin Everett (Buffalo Bills); 2009 \u2013 Matt Bryant (Tampa Bay Buccaneers); 2010 \u2013 Mike Zimmer (Cincinnati Bengals); 2011 \u2013 Mike Heimerdinger (Tennessee Titans); 2012 \u2013 Robert Kraft (New England Patriots); 2013 \u2013 Chuck Pagano (Indianapolis Colts); 2014 \u2013 O.J. Brigance (Baltimore Ravens); 2015 \u2013 Steve Gleason (New Orleans Saints); 2016 \u2013 Eric Berry (Kansas City Chiefs); 2017 \u2013 David Quessenberry (Houston Texans); 2018 \u2013 Marquise Goodwin (San Francisco 49ers); 2019 \u2013 Ryan Shazier (Pittsburgh Steelers); 2020 \u2013 Travis Frederick (Dallas Cowboys); 2021 \u2013 Alex Smith (Washington Football Team); 2022 \u2013 Ron Rivera (Washington Football Team); 2023 \u2013 Damar Hamlin (Buffalo Bills); 2024 \u2013 John Metchie III (Houston Texans); 2025 \u2013 Joe Burrow (Cincinnati Bengals)<\/p>\n

In its 62nd season in 2025, the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) is the official voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public. The PFWA is made up of accredited writers who cover the NFL and the 32 teams daily. Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Post is the PFWA president for the 2025-26 seasons and the organization’s 32nd president. Mike Jones (The Athletic) is the PFWA’s first vice president, Stephen Holder (ESPN.com) is the second vice president, Lindsay Jones (The Ringer) is the advisor to the president and Mike Sando (The Athletic) is the secretary-treasurer. At-large board members include Jeff Legwold (ESPN.com), Joe Reedy (Associated Press), Calvin Watkins (Dallas Morning News) and Charean Williams (ProFootballTalk.com). Follow the PFWA at ProFootballWriters.org and on Twitter\/X at @PFWAwriters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, who had an outstanding season in 2024 after missing most of the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[204,228,227,256,2296,7,1577,81,6,4435],"class_list":{"0":"post-83119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-joe-burrow","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-press-release"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114580881815758834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83119","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=83119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}