Good for him, although I wouldn't have given it to him on the grounds that he was just as good when he was on the field last year. He was never anything but awesome.
Maybe it's because I've always viewed awards like this as kinda backhanded in their very nature (you were good, then you sucked, but now you're good again!).
I would give the award to someone like Mark Sanchez who went from allegedly promising to laughingstock to just garden variety pretty bad. Or maybe to Roethlisberger, who seemed solidly in the back nine of his career for the past two, non-playoff years before dropping a 5,000 yard season out of nowhere.
I think the best candidate might have been Haloti Ngata, though. I want some of whatever steroids he's taking, because he was on a steep decline over the past couple of years, then pretty much out of nowhere turned back into a prime version of himself.