In an announcement in a team meeting this past Thursday (Dec. 7), Dennver Broncos running back Javonte Williams was named the team’s 2023 Ed Block Courage Award winner. Each year, the Ed Block Courage Award helps honor players who exemplify commitment to the principles of sportsmanship. In Williams’s case, the selection process for him and other recipients came from their teammates for exceptional courage, great character, and inspiring effort.
Perhaps a bulk of the reason Williams got the nomination from his teammates is due to the resiliency he has displayed over the last year. Williams suffered a devastating injury in October of 2022, tearing the ACL and LCL in his right knee, which sidelined him for the rest of the 2022 NFL season. Williams’s hard work rehabbing his injury allowed him to return to the field this season.
The Ed Block Courage Award honors Ed Block, a longtime head athletic trainer of the Baltimore Colts, a pioneer in his profession, and a respected humanitarian. It became a league-wide initiative that was first awarded in 1984. Congrats to Williams for the well-deserved honor.
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