Gronk spike! Well now we know where he gets it from. New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski won the Comeback Player of the Year award Saturday night at the NFL Honors award show. Since Gronkowski is a little busy you know with the Super Bowl today and all, he wasn’t in attendance to accept the award but his mother and brothers were there and his mom totally held him down.
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This Patriots team is still playing in large part because of unanimous All-Pro tight end.
We were starting to wonder if Gronkowski could make it through a full season healthy again. He was hobbled the last time the Patriots were in theSuper Bowl after the 2011 season with an ankle injury that required surgery. He broke his forearm in 2012, missed five games, then broke it again in the playoffs. The injury required three more surgeries, and then he also needed back surgery that offseason. Gronk seemingly returned better than ever at midseason in 2013, and then tore his ACL late in the year.
It’s easy to forget that Gronkowski started this season off slowly. He did not look like the same player early in September, failing to gain over 40 yards in his first four games. The victory over Cincinnati was a turning point for Gronkowski and the team. He totaled 100 yards in that game, and didn’t look back on the way to 82 catches for 1,124 yards and 12 scores. He topped 100 yards in the team’s Divisional Round win over Baltimore.
