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Miami, FL. — Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, Seattle Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones and Tampa Bay Buccaneers punter Riley Dixon are the NFC Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams Players of the Week for games played in Week 13 (November 27-28, November 30, December 1).
OFFENSE: QB JORDAN LOVE, GREEN BAY PACKERS
- Love completed 18 of 30 passes (60.0 percent) for 234 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions in Green Bay’s 31-24 win in Detroit on Thanksgiving. Love was the only NFC quarterback to record four touchdown passes and no interceptions in Week 13.
- This is the fourth-career Offensive Player of the Week award for Love and second this season (Week 8). Love is the third Packers quarterback to win the award four times, joining Aaron Rodgers (14-time winner) and Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre (12).
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- 2025: Week 8, 13
- Love is the only former Utah State player to win four Player of the Week awards.
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DEFENSE: LB ERNEST JONES, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
- Jones recorded 12 tackles and two interceptions, including one he returned for an 85-yard touchdown, in Seattle’s 26-0 win against Minnesota. He became the third player since 2000 to record at least 12 tackles, two interceptions and return an interception for a touchdown in a single game, joining Donnie Edwards (Week 14, 2004) and Rayshawn Jenkins (Week 15, 2022).
- This is Jones’ first-career Defensive Player of the Week award and he becomes the fourth Seahawks linebacker to earn the honor in the past 10 seasons (2016-25), joining Bobby Wagner (Week 13, 2018 and Week 8, 2020), DeMarcus Lawrence (Week 10, 2025) and Uchenna Nwosu (Week 1, 2022).
- Jones is the third former South Carolina linebacker to earn Defensive Player of the Week and the first since John Abraham (Week 14, 2013).
SPECIAL TEAMS: P RILEY DIXON, TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
- Dixon punted five times and recorded three inside the 20-yard line, with two inside the 10-yard line, in Tampa Bay’s 20-17 win against Arizona. Dixon was the only NFC punter in Week 13 with two punts inside the 10 and ranked second with a 46.8 net yards per punt average among punters with at least five punts. With the Buccaneers up three points with 2:00 remaining in the game, Dixon’s 59-yard punt pinned the Cardinals offense at the nine-yard line.
- This is Dixon’s first-career Special Teams Player of the Week award and he is the seventh Buccaneers punter to win earn the honor.
- Dixon is the second former Syracuse punter to win a Special Teams Player of the Week award, joining Pat O’Neill (Week 16, 1994).
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