From improbable comebacks to blowouts, Week 9 offered a little bit of everything.

It started Thursday when Lamar Jackson returned from injury and led the Baltimore Ravens‘ 28-6 rout of the Miami Dolphins with four touchdown passes.

On Sunday, the intensity increased with nine of 12 games decided by one possession.

Highlights of the day included a 58-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left to give the Chicago Bears a 47-42 win in a wild finish. The Pittsburgh Steelers also provided drama, winning by just seven points despite forcing six Indianapolis Colts turnovers. And the Jacksonville Jaguars edged the Las Vegas Raiders by one point in overtime.

This week’s matchups were action-packed with standout performances.

But only one player can be “him.”

Ahead of this week’s “Monday Night Football” matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys, it was time to decide who earned the honor in Week 9.

Here are the fan-voted results for ESPN’s NFL Week 9 “Himmy” Award:

Here’s how each candidate made his case in Week 9.

ESPN Research contributed to this story.

Stats to know: 23-of-26, 273 yards, 1 TD; 6 car, 19 yards, 2 TDs

Allen delivered a near-perfect outing of his own. The reigning MVP set a franchise record for completion percentage (88.5%) and piled up a career-best 149 passing yards to tight ends, targeting Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox and Jackson Hawes.

It was Allen’s 47th career game with both a passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown, extending his own NFL record. He now has 72 career rushing touchdowns, pulling within three of Cam Newton for the most by a quarterback in NFL history.

Since 2020 — the first season Allen and Patrick Mahomes faced off — the Bills are 5-1 in regular-season games against the Kansas City Chiefs. No other team has more than three wins over Kansas City in that span.

Stats to know: 21-of-24, 330 yards, 4 TDs

Darnold was nearly perfect against the Washington Commanders. At halftime, Darnold was 16-for-16 for 282 yards and four scores, with rookie wide receiver Tory Horton hauling in the first two and practice-squad elevation wide receiver Cody White adding another as the Seahawks built a 31-7 lead.

The numbers only got more absurd from there.

Darnold finished with a QBR of 97.8, the highest single-game mark of his career. There have been four instances of a player posting a QBR of 97 or higher this season, and Darnold owns three of them. His three games with at least a 97 QBR are tied for the most by a starting quarterback in a single season since ESPN began tracking the metric in 2006, matching Tom Brady (2007), Tony Romo (2014) and Lamar Jackson (2019).

The Seahawk also became the first player in the play-by-play era (since 1978) to throw for at least 250 yards with zero incompletions in any half.

Stats to know: 12 rec, 127 yards, 3 TDs

Bowers keeps rewriting the record books. The Raiders tight end extended his streak of games with at least two receptions to 22, the longest such run to start a career by a tight end, passing Sam LaPorta‘s mark set in 2023 with the Detroit Lions. He also became the first tight end with at least 125 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns in a game since Rob Gronkowski in 2014 with the New England Patriots.

Bowers made history as the Raiders’ first tight end with three touchdowns and at least 125 receiving yards in a game since Todd Christensen in 1983 against the then-San Diego Chargers.

Bowers now has 1,546 receiving yards in 22 career games — the fewest games needed by any tight end to reach 1,500 receiving yards since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger.

Stats to know: 25 car, 130 yards, 2 TDs

Dowdle was instrumental in Carolina’s 16-13 win over Green Bay on Sunday that lifted the Panthers above .500 and snapped the Packers’ three-game win streak. His second score gave the Panthers a 13-6 lead late in the third quarter, prompting a two-pelvic-thrust celebration — a nod to the Hingle McCringleberry character from a “Key & Peele” sketch — that drew an unsportsmanlike conduct flag but also caught the eye of the show’s co-creator Keegan-Michael Key.

Dowdle’s biggest play came in the final minute, when his long 19-yard run set up Ryan Fitzgerald‘s 49-yard game-winning field goal. Since making his first start of the season in Week 5, Dowdle has rushed for an NFL-best 633 yards, with the Panthers going 4-1 in that span.