Bills star Dion Dawkins says there should be a 'Protector of the Year' award for offensive linemen

Buffalo Bills violative tackle Dion Dawkins wants violative linemen to commencement getting immoderate recognition. 

While the violative linemen are named to the Pro Bowl and the All-Pro teams, determination presently is not an violative lineman of the twelvemonth grant oregon thing of that ilk.

"Offensive linemen don't person awards for being great. There's not a 'Protector of the Year' award. I'm knocking connected truthful galore doors present to get this grant going. I'm gonna caput spear it and marque definite this gets done earlier I'm done playing," Dawkins said during his press league connected Thursday.

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"Because there's truthful galore greats. So galore greats. We person large quarterbacks, we person large moving backs, we person rushing titles, we person backmost passing titles. All of those titles are reflections of the O-lineman, which are the protectors."

At the college level, violative linemen are recognized with galore antithetic awards.

The Lombardi Award is awarded to the champion assemblage shot lineman of the year, choky extremity oregon linebacker. This season, it was awarded to Texas Longhorn near tackle Kelvin Banks Jr.

The Outland Trophy is fixed to the champion interior lineman some connected the violative and antiaircraft broadside of the ball. Banks besides won that grant this season. 

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Buffalo Bills violative tackle Dion Dawkins, #73, leaves the tract aft winning a crippled against the San Francisco 49ers to clinch the AFC East rubric astatine Highmark Stadium. (Mark Konezny-Imagn Images)

The Rimington Trophy is awarded to the champion center, which was fixed to Ohio State Buckeye’s prima halfway Seth McLaughlin. 

The NFL awards the MVP, Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, Walter Payton Man of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year, and Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year.

The lone grant violative linemen person a realistic accidental of winning is Walter Payton Man of the Year, an grant fixed for acts of work to the community, which is an off-the-field award. 

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Buffalo Bills Dion Dawkins, #73, blocks for backmost Josh Allen, who sneaks successful for a touchdown, during archetypal fractional enactment successful the Buffalo Bills divisional crippled against the Baltimore Ravens astatine Highmark Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York, connected Jan. 19, 2025. (IMAGN)

Dawkins has spent each 8 seasons of his vocation with the Bills, which volition beryllium enactment the trial this play erstwhile the Bills instrumentality connected the Kansas City Chiefs successful the AFC Championship.

Dawkins, a four-time Pro Bowler, volition beryllium tasked with stopping prima antiaircraft lineman Chris Jones, George Karlaftis, Leo Chenal and others who volition effort to prosecute Josh Allen. 

The Bills and Chiefs are acceptable to play astatine 6:30 p.m. ET connected Sunday. 

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