Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Edgerrin Cooper was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 15 of the 2024 season after making a fumble and interception during Green Bay’s victory over the Seattle Seahawks on “Sunday Night Football.”
Cooper, who previously won the award in Week 8, is the first Packers rookie the Packers believe has won NFC Defensive Player of the Week — a weekly award given since 1984 — twice in a season. He is also the first Packers player to win the award twice in a season since Clay Matthews in 2010.
Only five rookies have won the award multiple times in a season: Nick Bosa (2019), Brian Cushing (2009), Kamren Kitchens (2024), Shaquille Leonard (2018) and now Cooper. He is also the first rookie since Nick Kwiatkoski in 2016 to make multiple tackles for loss and defend a pass in one game.
Cooper dominated in 34 snaps for Seattle, returning seven tackles, two tackles for loss, a third-down sack, a close interception and a game-clinching interception. He was the NFL’s highest-rated player in Week 15, according to Pro Football Focus.
The Packers earned NFC Defensive Player of the Week honors 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.
