[Tomcat68]

With or without helmet awards, the players on each team know who the best players are. If the player(s) are jealous of one of the stars, then he doesn't need to be on the team anyways. Jealously just is not acceptable in a team sport. Not to mention if they are going to be jealous, I doubt that it is the helmet awards that will push them over the edge as opposed to talk throughout the team, school, and community. It is no different than with EVERY team where the QBs and RBs get all of the publicity. This gives linemen and defensive players who play extremely well a chance to get their own publicity. Any player knows that football is a team sport and that one star without a cast of supporting characters means very little. Even with all that said, most players on teams are extremely good friends and rather than be jealous of each other it drives them to play harder to keep up with their friends' accomplishments.