{"id":245132,"date":"2026-05-25T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-nfl-defensive-rookies-of-the-year-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:00:34","slug":"the-nfl-defensive-rookies-of-the-year-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-nfl-defensive-rookies-of-the-year-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NFL Defensive Rookies of the Year&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> Happy 48th birthday to eight-time Pro Bowler, four-time All-Pro, 2000 Defensive Rookie of the Year and 2005 Defensive Player of the Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/brian_urlacher\/3717\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Urlacher<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><span>Urlacher was the ninth-overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft out of New Mexico, and he immediately became a fixture in the Chicago Bears defense. He recorded 124 tackles, eight sacks and intercepted two passes en route to Defensive Rookie of the Year honors despite a 5-11 season for Chicago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pasco, Washington native went on to a Hall of Fame career with the Bears, recording nine 100-tackle seasons, racking up 41.5 sacks and snagging 22 interceptions in his 13-year career. In 2005 he led the NFL\u2019s best defensive unit to the Bears second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history and was named Defensive Player of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Urlacher retired after the 2012 season and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the Class of 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. How many of the NFL players to be named Defensive Rookie of the Year since 2000 can you name in five minutes?<\/p>\n<p><span>Good luck!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/the_nfl_defensive_rookies_of_the_year_quiz\/s1__43871416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 48th birthday to eight-time Pro Bowler, four-time All-Pro, 2000 Defensive Rookie of the Year and 2005 Defensive Player of the Year, Brian Urlacher! Urlacher was the ninth-overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft out of New Mexico, and he immediately became a fixture in the Chicago Bears defense. He recorded 124 tackles, eight sacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}