Former Oregon Ducks defensive lineman Arik Armstead has won the Walter Payton Man of the Year award following his first season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Armstead becomes the first Oregon Duck to win the prestigious award,

For the second time, a Jacksonville Jaguars player has won Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, an award that annually recognizes an NFL player for outstanding community service activities off the field, as well as excellence on the field.

Armstead, who openly discusses how his difficulty reading as a child made him self-conscious, routinely visits schools and reads to children as part of his mission to ensure young students of all socio-economic backgrounds have access to adequate educational resources.