GREEN BAY – Josh Myers has been named the Packers’ 2024 winner of the Ed Block Courage Award.
The award recognizes NFL players who best exemplify commitments to the principles of sportsmanship and courage and is voted on by the players themselves. Each team recognizes an annual recipient for his professionalism, strength and dedication, and for being a role model in the community.
Founded more than 40 years ago, the award is named for Ed Block, the head athletic trainer of the Baltimore Colts from 1954-77 who earned a Purple Heart for his service in World War II under General George S. Patton.
The Packers awarded Myers during the team meeting Wednesday morning. Director of sports medicine and head athletic trainer Nate Weir presented it to Myers, who lost his father to lung cancer in July and has battled through wrist and pectoral injuries for much of the season, missing just one game.
In a brief chat with packers.com after Wednesday’s practice, Myers acknowledged this has been the most difficult season of his football career, physically and emotionally.
“I think so, yeah, just being from both sides,” he said. “I played a lot of games in there not healthy, and then just everything that happened with my dad earlier this year. It’s been a really hard year, and I appreciate (the award).
“It means more than anything else. I kind of view it the way when I was elected captain at Ohio State. I can remember vividly thinking this means more to me than basically any other honor I could’ve gotten. It feels a bit like that.”
Injury-wise, Myers initially hurt his left wrist at Jacksonville in Week 8 and gutted through the rest of the game. He missed the following week’s game vs. Detroit but hasn’t missed another since, despite soon after the Packers’ bye landing on the injury report again for several weeks with a pectoral injury.
Myers’ father Brad, who played offensive line in college and introduced him to the game of football, had fought liver cancer and received a liver transplant in 2023, only to have the cancer return to his lungs this past summer, resulting in a terminal diagnosis. Myers reported to training camp, returned home to Ohio for a few days to say goodbye and again to attend the funeral, and then was back with the team.
Myers has helped anchor an offense that ranks among the league’s top 10 in numerous categories, including rushing yards (fifth) and fewest sacks…
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