Eli Manning named co-winner of Walter Payton NFL Man of Year award

HOUSTON — He’s the Mann of the Year.

Or at least one of them.

“I challenge everyone here to help some person in need, you choose, but go out of your way to make a difference in some person’s life,” Manning said after receiving the award. “I promise you it’s worth it.”Giants quarterback Eli Manning was named co-winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year at Saturday night’s NFL Honors awards show, the first Giant to win it in the 47-year history of the award. He shared the honor with Larry Fitzgerald of the Cardinals.

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Larry Fitzgerald Earns Co-NFL Man Of Year Honor

HOUSTON – Larry Fitzgerald was named the Walter Payton Man of the Year Saturday night, but he wasn’t alone.

For only the third time in the history of the award, there were co-winners of the honor – Fitzgerald shared the title with the Giants’ Eli Manning, players who were selected two picks apart in the 2004 NFL draft.

It doesn’t mean it meant any less.

“It’s truly humbling,” Fitzgerald said. “It kind of hit me when I was walking up on that stage, with (former winners) Anthony Munoz and Derrick Brooks and Kurt Warner and Curtis Martin, Warrick Dunn, all these guys who have been pillars in their communities.

“To be thought of in the same light as those men, football aside, that’s what it’s about.”

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