#5) DeMeco Ryans
On a night when his former teammate Andre Johnson was announced as a Hall of Fame inductee, DeMeco Ryans just missed out on winning Coach of the Year.
The Houston Texans head coach had a massive task ahead of him when he took the reins at the start of 2023. The team had gone a franchise-worst 3-13-1 in their first season without former franchise face Deshaun Watson, and they did not exactly have the most talented roster around.
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But he managed to turn C.J. Stroud and Will Anderson into potential generational talents and gave the Texans their first division title since 2019, before routing the Cleveland Browns of eventual award winner Kevin Stefanski in the Wild Card Round.
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