Teddy Bridgewater Appears to Have Won Pepsi Rookie of the Year Award

The Pepsi Rookie of the Year award isn’t supposed to be revealed until later tonight, but the winner appears to have leaked early.

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If the leak is in fact true, then Teddy Bridgewater is your Pepsi Rookie of the Year winner.

The leak first came to light on Twitter when someone noticed this on NFL.com:

This screenshot of http://t.co/lpifFjFjkb tabs Bridgewater the Pepsi ROY winner. @PerkatPlay ... #Vikings pic.twitter.com/LGI9ZF1gLK
— Joe Nelson (@JoeBMTN) January 30, 2015

Bridgewater then seemed to confirm the award in a statement to Mark Craig of the Star-Tribune.

Talked to Teddy B a few moments ago. On his Pepsi ROY award: "It means a lot because of all the scrutiny around me during the draft."
— Mark Craig (@markcraignfl) January 30, 2015

Teddy Bridgewater appears to have a chip on his shoulder.

Bridgewater’s apparent ROY victory will likely not set well with fans of Odell Beckham Jr., who arguably was the most dynamic and exciting offensive rookie in the NFL this year. But Bridgewater did what he did playing quarterback, and that has to factor in.

Teddy had to overcome a lot of crap this year. He was thrown into the fire earlier than expected. He had some injuries. His offensive line was brutal. His supposed #1 receiver Cordarrelle Patterson gave him nothing. His running game was inconsistent at best without Adrian Peterson.

Despite all that, Bridgewater had one of the best rookie seasons ever for a QB and was arguably one of the top 5 QBs in the league over the last month of the season.

That’s good enough to win rookie of the year. Even if he didn’t actually win rookie of the year. We’ll find out later today for sure.

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