NEW YORK (AP) -Voting for the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year selected by The Associated Press in balloting by a nationwide panel of the media:
Terrell Suggs, LB, Baltimore 21
Jared Allen, DE, Minnesota 14
Justin Smith, DE-DT, San Francisco 6
Jason Pierre-Paul, DE, NY Giants 5
Patrick Willis, LB, San Francisco 2
NaVorro Bowman, LB, San Francisco 1
Charles Woodson, CB, Green Bay 1