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Following each National Football League (NFL) season, the Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA) compiles an honorary All-Rookie Team to recognize that season's most outstanding rookies at each position as adjudged by sportswriters of the PFWA. [1] [2] [3] Teams have been selected every year since the 1974 NFL season.
He spent his entire four-year career with the Eagles, [7] leading the NFL in punts in 1986, 1987, and 1988 and punting yards in 1986. [8] During his rookie year, he led the league in punts with 108 - the most ever for a rookie and 3rd most in NFL history. That year he was named the NFL All Rookie team and was the Eagles special teams MVP.
The 1986 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, Pro Football Weekly, and The Sporting News in 1986. Both first and second teams are listed for the AP and NEA teams. These are the five teams that are included in ...
3× UPI NFC Offensive Player of the Year (1983, 1984, 1986) 5× First-team All-Pro (1983, 1984, 1986–1988) 6× Pro Bowl (1983, 1984, 1986–1989) 4× NFL rushing yards leader (1983, 1984, 1986, 1988) NFL rushing touchdowns co-leader (1984) NFL 1980s All-Decade Team; NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team; PFWA All-Rookie Team ; St. Louis ...
After six years, he had been named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award (1981), NFL Defensive Player of the Year a record three times (1981, 1982, 1986), First-team All-Pro six times, [32] become the first defensive player in NFL history unanimously voted the league's MVP (1986), and led his team to a championship (1986). After the win ...
The 1986 NFL season was the 67th regular season of the National Football League. Defending Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears shared the league's best record with the Giants at 14–2, with the Giants claiming the spot in the NFC by tiebreakers.
NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1981) First-team All-Pro ; 2× Pro Bowl (1981, 1982) NFL rushing yards leader (1981) NFL rushing touchdowns leader (1986) PFWA All-Rookie Team ; New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame; Heisman Trophy (1980) Chic Harley Award (1980) Unanimous All-American ; First-team All-American ; South Carolina Gamecocks No. 38 retired
Hand recorded his first NFL sack in week five against the San Francisco 49ers, taking down quarterback Jeff Kemp. [21] He was named to both the 1986 NEA NFL All-Rookie Team and the Pro Football Weekly All-Rookie Team. [22] [23] The Colts lost their first 13 games of the season leading to head coach Rod Dowhower's dismissal.