Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Edgerrin Cooper was named the NFC’s Defensive Player of the Week for Week 15 of the 2024 season after producing a sack and an interception during Green Bay’s win over the Seattle Seahawks on “Sunday Night Football.”
Cooper, who previously won the award in Week 8, is the first Packers rookie win NFC Defensive Player of the Week — a weekly award started in 1984 — twice in a season, per the Packers. He’s also the first Packers player to win the award twice in a season since Clay Matthews in 2010.
Only five rookies have ever won the award multiple times in a season: Nick Bosa (2019), Brian Cushing (2009), Kamren Kitchens (2024), Shaquille Leonard (2018) and now Cooper. He’s also the first rookie since Nick Kwiatkoski in 2016 to produce multiple tackles for loss and passes defensed in a single game.
Cooper was dominant over 34 snaps in Seattle, delivering seven tackles, two tackles for loss, a sack on third down, a near interception and a game-clinching interception. He ended up being the NFL’s highest-graded player in Week 15, per Pro Football Focus.
The Packers have won an NFC Defensive Player of the Week award three times this season — Cooper in Week 15, Cooper in Week 8 and Xavier McKinney in Week 5. McKinney was also named the NFC Defensive Player of the Month for October. Karl Brooks was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after blocking a field goal in Chicago in Week 11.
