Michael Vick named AP Comeback Player of the Year

Philadelphia Eagles QB Michael Vick has been named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year by the associated press.

Vick earned 29.5 of 50 votes to win the award.

He is the first Eagle to receive the AP Comeback Player of the Year Award. Randall Cunningham won the Pro Football Weekly version for his 1992 Pro Bowl season after missing virtually all of the 1991 season with a knee injury.

“I want to thank all the fans,” Vick said. “This is a tremendous honor, Comeback Player of the Year, to have your peers and fans think highly of you, not only as a football player, but as an individual and for what you stand for. It’s great, it’s awesome and I want to say thank you personally from Michael Vick.”

Vick led the Eagles to the playoffs and made the Pro Bowl in his first year as a starter since 2006. He missed the 2007 and 2008 seasons while serving a federal prison sentence on federal dogfighting charges.

The likely MVP runner-up completed a career-high 63 percent of his passes, threw a career-high 21 touchdowns to just six interceptions, ran for a career-high nine TDs and had by far his highest passer rating ever at 100.2. He also ran for 676 yards with an NFL-best 6.8 average.