NFL Moment of the Year Award

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NFL Moment of the Year Award
Country United States
Presented by National Football League, Bridgestone
First awarded 2011
Currently held by CeeDee Lamb

The NFL Moment of the Year Award, presented as the Next Gen Stats Moment of the Year powered by AWS (formerly known as the Play of the Year and presented as the Bridgestone Play of the Year Award), is a National Football League award. It was first awarded in 2011, at the inaugural NFL Honors awards show. From 2012 onward, Bridgestone became the presenter of the award until 2022, when the award began being presented by Next Gen Stats. [1]

Winners

YearPlayerTeamPlayRef
2011 Randall Cobb Green Bay Packers 108-yard kickoff return touchdown vs. New Orleans Saints [2]
2012 Ray Rice Baltimore Ravens Short pass to convert on 4th and 29 vs. San Diego Chargers [3]
2013 Calvin Johnson Detroit Lions Leaping catch in end zone in triple coverage vs. Cincinnati Bengals
2014 Odell Beckham Jr. New York Giants One-handed touchdown catch while falling backwards vs. Dallas Cowboys
2015 Aaron Rodgers and Richard Rodgers II Green Bay Packers "Miracle in Motown": Game-winning Hail Mary pass as time expires vs. Detroit Lions
2016 Mike Evans Tampa Bay Buccaneers One-handed catch where the ball was delivered high and slightly behind. Evans instinctually managed to get two feet down along the sideline and Evans absorbed a vicious hit and somehow held onto the ball. This happened while playing the Atlanta Falcons, who had gone to Super Bowl LI (51) [4]
2017 Case Keenum and Stefon Diggs Minnesota Vikings "Minneapolis Miracle": Case Keenum threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Stefon Diggs as time expired in the divisional playoff game against the New Orleans Saints. The play marked the first game-winning touchdown on the final play of the fourth quarter in NFL postseason history. [5]
2018 Ryan Tannehill, Kenny Stills, DeVante Parker, and Kenyan Drake Miami Dolphins "Miracle in Miami": Lateral play in which Ryan Tannehill threw to Kenny Stills, who lateraled the ball to DeVante Parker, who in turn lateraled the ball to Kenyan Drake, who ran the ball in for a touchdown as time expired in a game against the New England Patriots. The play marked the first successful lateral touchdown since the River City Relay in 2003. [6]
2019 Matt Haack and Jason Sanders Miami Dolphins "Mountaineer Shot": Punter Matt Haack threw a touchdown to kicker Jason Sanders in a trick play on fourth down in a regular season game against the Philadelphia Eagles. This was the first touchdown pass to a kicker since 1977. [7]
2020 Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins Arizona Cardinals "Hail Murray": Kyler Murray threw a 43-yard Hail Mary pass into the end zone that was caught by DeAndre Hopkins over three defenders for the game-winning touchdown against the Buffalo Bills. [8]
2021 Justin Tucker Baltimore Ravens Justin Tucker kicked a game-winning 66 yard field goal, the longest in NFL history, as time expired against the Detroit Lions. [9]
2022 Justin Jefferson Minnesota Vikings Justin Jefferson one handed catch on 4th and 18 for 32 yards wrestled from cornerback Cam Lewis to keep the game alive, down four points to the Buffalo Bills in the last two minutes of regulation.
2023 CeeDee Lamb Dallas Cowboys On 3rd and 13 at their own 8, Dak Prescott escaped a defender in the end-zone and heaved a 92-yard touchdown pass to CeeDee Lamb. [1]

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  3. ↑ "Ray Rice's Fourth-And-29 Conversion Named Bridgestone Play of the Year at '2nd Annual NFL Honors'" (PDF). NFL Labor. February 12, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
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