Brian Cushing is still the Defensive Rookie of the Year — and still suspended for four games for testing positive for a banned performance enhancing drug favored by steroids users.

So much for the high drama of the unprecedented NFL award revote ordered by The Associated Press in the wake of Cushing's suspension for taking hCG — the same fertility drug (essentially for men who still want to have regular testicles while taking steroids) that earned LA Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez a 50-game ban in baseball.

When the recast ballots came back in today, the Houston Texans linebacker was still the winner over Bills safety Jarius Byrd. The margin of Cushing's victory was much smaller — as some prominent sports writers like Sports Illustrated's Peter King changed their vote after having voted for Cushing in the original balloting.

Cushing received only 18 of the 50 votes in the do over (compared to 39 of the 50 in the original balloting), but Byrd still couldn't pass him, getting only 13 votes.

The bottom line is that unlike Sandra Bullock with that original Razzie award, Cushing gets to keep his trophy. The fake moral posturing from football writers is over and they can go back to reporting on the game like they do whenever someone isn't dumb enough to get caught in a drug test — pretending like the NFL doesn't have a steroids issue.