Thirty-four Premier League matches have been played by Leeds United in 2022. Tyler Adams played in 13 of them and was still voted Fans’ Footballer of the Year.
As impacts go, that’s quite the statistic. There will surely be some recency bias given the votes for the year-long award were only made in the last few weeks, but it underlines the rapid rise of the American at Elland Road.
Adams had arrived in the summer quickly after Kalvin Phillips’s sale was processed to Manchester City. He wasn’t billed as the replacement or as the next Phillips, but it’s hard to avoid the correlation when you see where Adams now plays.
