Key Facts from the 2025 UFA Season Awards


September 30, 2025
By Daniel Cohen

  • Tobe Decraene is the ninth different player to win UFA MVP and the first internationally-born player to win the award. He’s also the youngest MVP in league history at just 22 years old
     
  • Decraene is the first player to win both Championship Weekend MVP and league MVP
     
  • Jeff Babbitt has made an All-UFA team (First or Second Team) each of the last six seasons. He also made First Team in 2017; overall he’s made an All-UFA team seven of his nine career seasons
     
  • Five of the seven players on the All-UFA First Team were unanimous selections, the most unanimous First Team selections since panel voting began in 2022
     
  • Walker Frankenberg is the first Spider since MVP Beau Kittredge (2015) to be named to the All-UFA First Team
     
  • Austin Taylor’s First Team All-UFA nod is the second of his career; it had been four years since his last First Team selection (2021)
     
  • The New York Empire have had a player make First Team All-UFA every year since 2016, the longest streak in league history 
     
  • Daan De Marrée is the first rookie to receive All-UFA First Team honors since Pawel Janas (2017)
     
  • For the first time ever, the All-UFA First Team team features multiple internationally-born players: Daan De Marrée and Tobe Decraene (both from Belgium) 
     
  • Justin Burnett has made an All-Defense team each of the last three seasons, the longest active streak in the league and most All-Defense selections all time (since the honor started in 2021)
     
  • 10 of the 14 All-Defense selections had never previously been named to an All-Defense team
     
  • Ben Jagt has made an All-UFA team each of the last seven seasons, tied with Travis Dunn for the longest active streak in the league
     
  • Players who were named to an All-UFA team for the first time in their career this year: Daan De Marrée (CHI), Walker Frankenberg (OAK), Mark Henke (ATX), Tannor Johnson-Go (BOS), Adam Miller (ATL), Adam Rees (OAK), Chad Yorgason (SLC), McKay Yorgason (SLC)
     
  • Chad and McKay are the first pair of brothers to qualify for All-UFA teams in the same season