Overview
- The award was announced Thursday night at NFL Honors in San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl LX.
- McDaniels received 17 of 50 first-place votes and 249 total points, edging runner-up Vance Joseph, who had 10 first-place votes and 176 points.
- New England’s offense jumped from 30th to second in scoring (17.0 to 28.8 points per game) and from 31st to third in yards (292.0 to 379.4 per game) in 2025.
- It is the first time a Patriots assistant has won the AP award since its inception in 2014.
- The longtime New England assistant returned after a 2024 sabbatical and now enters his 10th Super Bowl appearance.