After leading an injury-riddled Cleveland Browns team to the playoffs, head coach Kevin Stefanski was named the 2023 NFL Coach of the Year at the NFL Honors awards ceremony Thursday night in Las Vegas.
Stefanski’s Browns, despite losing their starting quarterback, starting running back, starting left tackle and others to season-ending injuries, went 11-6 and made the playoffs.
They had the league’s No. 1 defense.
It is Stefanski’s second Coach of the Year award. He became the 13th coach to win it multiple times.
He won on a tiebreaker. He and Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans, who led the Texans to a surprise 10-7 season and AFC division title, both had 165 total points. Because Stefanski had 21 first-place votes to Ryans’ 20, he won.
Stefanski and the Browns faced the Arizona Cardinals in 2023, beating them 27-0 in Cleveland, holding them to only 58 total yards.
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