New York Giants large receiver Darius Slayton has been nominated for the 2024 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Yr Award.
Head coach Brian Daboll knowledgeable the staff of Slayton’s honor on Monday with the official nomination being revealed on Thursday morning.
“It’s arduous to even put into phrases,” Slayton stated. “It’s not one thing that I noticed coming in any respect. At the same time as a child, you see all these items the gamers do, and also you by no means know. Andrew Whitworth received (in 2021) and I keep in mind he received up there and was telling a narrative about certainly one of his final years within the league. He stated a man got here as much as him and (stated), ‘I used to be a type of youngsters on the Boys and Ladies Membership and I made it huge.’ To me, that’s the final word. There’s not likely a lot you might do in your profession, or something, that may prime that, having somebody come up and say, ‘You impressed me and right here I’m.’ Even when it wasn’t the NFL, that may be the largest accomplishment on the planet.
“I believe the award itself speaks to that. That’s why I believe it’s an amazing honor to be part of it. I’m very grateful and humbled that I used to be chosen.”
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Operating again Saquon Barkley, now with the Philadelphia Eagles, had been the Giants’ nominee in every of the earlier two seasons. The staff’s solely winner is future Corridor of Fame quarterback Eli Manning, who took residence the dignity alongside Arizona Cardinals large receiver Larry Fitzgerald in 2016.
Every nominee receives a $55,000 donation to a charity of their alternative. The winner will obtain a $265,000 donation by way of the NFL Basis and Nationwide Basis.
“Clearly, soccer just isn’t without end,” Slayton stated. “However so long as I’m in a position, I’ll do my greatest to proceed to do the issues that we’ve completed, and proceed to seek out new issues, new methods to assist folks, new folks to assist.
“So long as you’re in a position, you must assist, you must give, you must attempt to assist different folks do higher, these varieties of issues. That can all the time be one thing that’s a part of my life.”
Slayton is concerned with many charities and group occasions, together with the Left-Hand Proper-Hand Basis, which he based in 2022.
Named after late Chicago Bears working again Walter Payton, the “award acknowledges an NFL participant for excellent group service actions off the sector in addition to excellence on the sector” and is taken into account probably the most prestigious within the NFL.
