2011 Pro Bowl rosters (1 Viewer)

[GregR]

2011 Pro Bowl rosters. * denotes starter

AFC

Quarterback

*Tom Brady, New England

Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh

Philip Rivers, San Diego

Running back

* Ray Rice, Baltimore

Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville

Arian Foster, Houston

Fullback

* Vonta Leach, Baltimore

Wide receiver

* Wes Welker, New England

* Mike Wallace, Pittsburgh

A.J. Green, Cincinnati

Brandon Marshall, Miami

Tight end

* Rob Gronkowski, New England

Antonio Gates, San Diego

Tackle

* Joe Thomas, Cleveland

* Jake Long, Miami

D'Brickashaw Ferguson, N.Y. Jets

Guard

* Logan Mankins, New England

* Brian Waters, New England

Marshal Yanda, Baltimore

Center

* Maurkice Pouncey, Pittsburgh

Nick Mangold, N.Y. Jets

Defensive end

* Dwight Freeney, Indianapolis

* Andre Carter, New England

Elvis Dumervil, Denver



Interior linemen

* Haloti Ngata, Baltimore

* Vince Wilfork, New England

Richard Seymour, Oakland



Outside linebacker

* Terrell Suggs, Baltimore

* Von Miller, Denver

Tamba Hali, Kansas City



Inside/midde linebacker

* Ray Lewis, Baltimore

Derrick Johnson, Kansas City



Cornerback

* Darrelle Revis, N.Y. Jets

* Champ Bailey, Denver

Johnathan Joseph, Houston



Free safety

* Ed Reed, Baltimore

Eric Weddle, San Diego

Strong safety

* Troy Polamalu, Pittsburgh

Punter Shane Lechler, Oakland

Placekicker Sebastian Janikowski, Oakland

Kick returner Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh

Special teamer Matthew Slater, New England

NFC

Quarterback

* Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay

Drew Brees, New Orleans

Eli Manning, N.Y. Giants

Running back

* LeSean McCoy, Philadelphia

Matt Forte, Chicago

Frank Gore, San Francisco

Fullback

* John Kuhn, Green Bay



Wide receiver

* Calvin Johnson, Detroit

* Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona

Steve Smith, Carolina

Greg Jennings, Green Bay

Tight end

* Jimmy Graham, New Orleans

Tony Gonzalez, Atlanta

Tackle

* Jason Peters, Philadelphia

* Joe Staley, San Francisco

Jermon Bushrod, New Orleans

Guard

* Jahri Evans, New Orleans

* Carl Nicks, New Orleans

Davin Joseph, Tampa Bay

Center

* Ryan Kalil, Carolina

Scott Wells, Green Bay



Defensive end

* Jared Allen, Minnesota

* Jason Babin, Philadelphia

Jason Pierre-Paul, N.Y. Giants

Interior linemen

* Justin Smith, San Francisco

* Jay Ratliff, Dallas

B.J. Raji, Green Bay



Outside linebacker

* DeMarcus Ware, Dallas

* Clay Matthews, Green Bay

Lance Briggs, Chicago

Inside/midde linebacker

* Patrick Willis, San Francisco

Brian Urlacher, Chicago



Cornerback

* Charles Woodson, Green Bay

* Carlos Rogers, San Francisco

Charles Tillman, Chicago

Free safety

* Earl Thomas, Seattle

Dashon Goldson, San Francisco

Strong safety

* Adrian Wilson, Arizona

Punter Andy Lee, San Francisco

Placekicker David Akers, San Francisco

Kick returner Patrick Peterson, Arizona

Special teamer Corey Graham, Chicago

 

[BobbyLayne]

One (1) Detroit Lion

Whatevs

 

[TS Garp]

Eli over Stafford and Romo???

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Stafford and Victor Cruz should be there for the NFC.

 

[Darrinll40]

In the ESPN article, link, it says:

However, a team source told The Denver Post that Tebow is a second alternate for the AFC, meaning if two quarterbacks from the conference decline to attend the game Tebow will be added to the roster.

If that were to happen it would make the Pro bowl a much bigger joke than it has ever been. What a disgrace it would be if Tebow made the game in any capacity besides spectator.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

In the ESPN article, link, it says:

However, a team source told The Denver Post that Tebow is a second alternate for the AFC, meaning if two quarterbacks from the conference decline to attend the game Tebow will be added to the roster.

If that were to happen it would make the Pro bowl a much bigger joke than it has ever been. What a disgrace it would be if Tebow made the game in any capacity besides spectator.

Who's the first alternate? AFC QBs stink.

 

[johnadams]

And a clean sweep for the Bay Area at the kicking position!

 

[Darrinll40]

In the ESPN article, link, it says:

However, a team source told The Denver Post that Tebow is a second alternate for the AFC, meaning if two quarterbacks from the conference decline to attend the game Tebow will be added to the roster.

If that were to happen it would make the Pro bowl a much bigger joke than it has ever been. What a disgrace it would be if Tebow made the game in any capacity besides spectator.

Who's the first alternate? AFC QBs stink.

Andy Dalton He may go if Pittsburgh or NE make the AFC championship or Superbowl.

 

[Osaurus]

Nice to see Davin Joseph in.

 

[jon_mx]

One (1) Detroit LionWhatevs

Yeah, but besides Stafford, who got the shaft? Tulloch? Pettigrew? Suh? Avril?

 

[ZWK]

These are going to be some funny looking defenses with all of those edge rushers on the field at once. Lance Briggs is the only one of the 12 DE/OLBs who is not primarily an edge rusher. Surprised they didn't pick Orakpo or Aldon Smith ahead of him.

 

[GregR]

Cruz was a huge snub.

Dwight Freeney making it is a joke. He should be so embarrassed to be included he should not show up and let one of the alternates go. There are four AFC defensive ends who didn't make it who have the same or more sacks as Freeney but have more than twice as many tackles as he.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Wow. What a joke that Willis and Urlacher made it over Fletcher. He's been arguably the best ILB in the league this season, while Urlacher hasn't been as good and Willis hasn't been himself. Talk about name recognition. Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

 

[Ilov80s]

One (1) Detroit LionWhatevs

Yeah, but besides Stafford, who got the shaft? Tulloch? Pettigrew? Suh? Avril?

Gonzalez was clearly more productive than Pettigrew. Avril had an awesome year, but Babin, Allen, and Pierre-Paul could all win DPOTY. Suh could have gotten the nod over Raji, but the negative press, suspension and dip in sack numbers hurt his bid. Tulloch had at least an equal season to Urlacher and could have gotten the nod there. Urlacher's name value gave him the edge.

 

[qimqam]

Eli over Stafford and Romo???

Stafford ... You have an argument. Romo you lost credibility ... Eli by default!

 

[Ilov80s]

Eli over Stafford and Romo???

Stafford ... You have an argument. Romo you lost credibility ... Eli by default!

A clear argument: better QB rating, better completion %, more TDs, less INTs, more wins and led 6 comebacks from down 13+ points this season.

 

[TS Garp]

Eli over Stafford and Romo???

Stafford ... You have an argument. Romo you lost credibility ... Eli by default!

Romo has more TD's, less int's, a higher completion %, and a much higher QB rating.

 

[shadyridr]

49ers tied for most pro-bowlers!

 

[shadyridr]

Eli over Stafford and Romo???

Stafford ... You have an argument. Romo you lost credibility ... Eli by default!

Romo has more TD's, less int's, a higher completion %, and a much higher QB rating.

Romo is also a choke artistEli > Romo

 

[jon_mx]

One (1) Detroit LionWhatevs

Yeah, but besides Stafford, who got the shaft? Tulloch? Pettigrew? Suh? Avril?

Gonzalez was clearly more productive than Pettigrew. Avril had an awesome year, but Babin, Allen, and Pierre-Paul could all win DPOTY. Suh could have gotten the nod over Raji, but the negative press, suspension and dip in sack numbers hurt his bid. Tulloch had at least an equal season to Urlacher and could have gotten the nod there. Urlacher's name value gave him the edge.

A lot of guys who were very close. What worries me is Avril and Tulloch are free-agents. Should be the highest priority to resign. Also need to resign Kevin Smith and Eric Wright. Lions made some good deals in the off-season, but they are going to pay big bucks to keep the pieces together and doing some work to improve the offensive line.

 

[Multiple Scores]

How does Eli get in over Cam or Stafford. Too bad voting happens so early, Eli's choke job the past two weeks were Peytonesque.

Rivers was awful most of the year.

Brandon Marshall? Really?

Nice to see Forte make it in, he was dominant until injury.

Glad to see all the 49ers make it, Carlos Rogers and Justin Smith especially.

 

[hutchins929]

Eli over Stafford...

 

[Sea Duck]

Stafford is the 2nd alternate for the NFC. Cam Newton is the 1st alternate.

 

[CrossEyed]

Ike Taylor should have made it. According to football outsiders Ike has been targeted 72 times and he has a 70% success rate. Which puts him 3rd in NFL.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

The fact that more people aren't outraged about the Fletcher snub outrages me.

Although, I probably wouldn't watch Skins games if I wasn't a fan, so I can't blame most people for not knowig how incredible he is.

 

[Tau837]

Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

Compare his numbers to Ray Lewis, an unquestioned first-ballot HOF'er. Do that, then kindly admit that you have no idea what you're talking about.

If Fletcher is not eventually inducted into the HOF, it will be because of a lack of arbitrary popularity contest votes such as this Pro Bowl roster. Not because of what he has personally accomplished.

 

[QuizGuy66]

In the ESPN article, link, it says:

However, a team source told The Denver Post that Tebow is a second alternate for the AFC, meaning if two quarterbacks from the conference decline to attend the game Tebow will be added to the roster.

If that were to happen it would make the Pro bowl a much bigger joke than it has ever been. What a disgrace it would be if Tebow made the game in any capacity besides spectator.

Who's the first alternate? AFC QBs stink.

Andy Dalton He may go if Pittsburgh or NE make the AFC championship or Superbowl.

They got this right Dalton > Tebow -QG

 

[QuizGuy66]

That said, Dalton should have made it over Rivers

Btw, Geno Atkins is a first alternate as well

-QG

 

[Tau837]

Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

Compare his numbers to Ray Lewis, an unquestioned first-ballot HOF'er. Do that, then kindly admit that you have no idea what you're talking about.

If Fletcher is not eventually inducted into the HOF, it will be because of a lack of arbitrary popularity contest votes such as this Pro Bowl roster. Not because of what he has personally accomplished.

LOFL at comparing Fletcher to Lewis.In virtually the same number of games, Lewis has more tackles, sacks, interceptions, forced fumbles, fumble recoveries, passes defensed, and TDs. Is there anything Fletcher does as well as Lewis?

More importantly:

Lewis: 2 DPOYs, 1 Super Bowl MVP, 1 ring, 7 1st team All Pro selections, 3 2nd team All Pro selections, 12 Pro Bowl selections

Fletcher: 2 Pro Bowl selections

Fletcher is a very good player. And that's where it ends. In his own era, he quite obviously is not as good as Lewis, Brooks, Seau, or Urlacher. And there are other young LBs who are better early, like Willis, though it remains to be seen if they can sustain their level of play. And I probably missed someone. The HOF only has 22 LBs, going all the way back to the 1940s. It's a high bar, and Fletcher doesn't come close to reaching it.

Perhaps you should kindly admit you don't know what you are talking about.

 

[johnnyboy8102]

NaVarro Bowman

London Fletcher

Stephen Tulloch

Daryl Washington

Desmond Bishop

Sean Lee

Curtis Lofton

James Laurinaitis

Any of those 8 players, especially Bowman or Fletcher, would have been a better pick as the 2nd ILB/MLB behind Willis in the NFC.

The Urlacher pick was a travesty. He has had 7 games of 5 or less tackles and virtually no impact all season long.

 

[johnnyboy8102]

Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

Compare his numbers to Ray Lewis, an unquestioned first-ballot HOF'er. Do that, then kindly admit that you have no idea what you're talking about.

If Fletcher is not eventually inducted into the HOF, it will be because of a lack of arbitrary popularity contest votes such as this Pro Bowl roster. Not because of what he has personally accomplished.

Lewis:221 Games, 1997 Tackles (1518 solo), 40.5 sacks, 101.5 stuffs, 31 INT for 503 Yards, 115 PD, 18 FF, 19 FR, 3 TD, 1 Safety

Fletcher:

223 Games, 1803 Tackles (1254 Solo), 35 sacks, 55 stuffs, 18 INT for 139 Yards, 83 PD, 18 FF, 12 FR, 3 TD, 0 Safety

That Stuffs, INT, and PD difference is pretty large. Throw in more sacks, tackles (solos), and FR and this isn't much of a contest.

I agree Fletcher should probably be a 5-6 time Pro Bowler but saying he is close to Lewis is a bit of a stretch.

 

[Wingnut]

Aldon Smith, SF should have at least been mentioned...dude has 14 sacks and wasnt even on the Pro Bowl ballot.

 

[Multiple Scores]

Dwight Freeney in on name recognition.

 

[jojoh07]

where is deqwell jackson ?????

 

[Two Deep]

Stafford and Victor Cruz should be there for the NFC.

Things like this are why I don't even watch this piece of crap game. In fact all allstar games are worthless. They should just name the players and not even play the game.

 

[SWC]

i am glad to see peenut tillman in there from the bears he is a classy player and good and shuold have been in there for a lot more years before this one take that to the bank happy holidays all the way

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The Saints getting 3 linemen, 4 including Graham, plus the QB in is incredible. Pretty much everyone except the right tackle (and no right tackle made it) and the center. I wonder how often this has happened, 4 guys on one line AND the QB making the pro bowl.

 

[Ilov80s]

One (1) Detroit Lion

Whatevs

Yeah, but besides Stafford, who got the shaft? Tulloch? Pettigrew? Suh? Avril?

Gonzalez was clearly more productive than Pettigrew. Avril had an awesome year, but Babin, Allen, and Pierre-Paul could all win DPOTY. Suh could have gotten the nod over Raji, but the negative press, suspension and dip in sack numbers hurt his bid. Tulloch had at least an equal season to Urlacher and could have gotten the nod there. Urlacher's name value gave him the edge.

A lot of guys who were very close. What worries me is Avril and Tulloch are free-agents. Should be the highest priority to resign. Also need to resign Kevin Smith and Eric Wright. Lions made some good deals in the off-season, but they are going to pay big bucks to keep the pieces together and doing some work to improve the offensive line.

You think they need to? Both guys could be upgraded and are only worth resigning for the right price.

 

[jon_mx]

I really like what Kevin Smith has shown when he is healthy, so yes he needs to be resigned. With LeShoure and Best hopefully healthy, they will not be upgrading RB next year. I can see a nice rotation between those three. Erc Wright has been solid, but yeah I would not pay too much for him. The performance of the CB's has been better than most expected.

 

[Buckna]

Rivers was awful most of the year. Brandon Marshall? Really?

Should have been Schaub but he got knocked out for the year.Who else from the AFC can you make an argument for? Despite the drops, he's got better numbers than Bowe and VJax who are the only guys close to him. Just as the QB's are inferior to the NFC this year, so are the WR's.

 

[Buckna]

One (1) Detroit LionWhatevs

Only 2 Texans. You could make a convincing argument for most of the Texans O'line, D'line & Linebackers to be there.

 

[solorca]

I guess I'm not surprised by it, since the numbers don't look gaudy, but Chris Gamble isn't even an alternate for the NFC. He has been the very definition of a shutdown corner this season, and I think he clearly deserved a spot...even if the voters didn't see it.

 

[PoliSciGuy]

One (1) Detroit Lion

Whatevs

Only 2 Texans. You could make a convincing argument for most of the Texans O'line, D'line & Linebackers to be there.

This guy believes Duane Brown (a lesser known guy) was snubbed.

 

[PoliSciGuy]

Rivers was awful most of the year. Brandon Marshall? Really?

Should have been Schaub but he got knocked out for the year.Who else from the AFC can you make an argument for? Despite the drops, he's got better numbers than Bowe and VJax who are the only guys close to him. Just as the QB's are inferior to the NFC this year, so are the WR's.

Yeah they should just let Cam Newton play for the AFC. You know its gonna be bad when either Brady or Big Ben go to the Super Bowl and they stick in Hasselbeck or Dalton to replace one of them.

 

[GregR]

One (1) Detroit Lion

Whatevs

Only 2 Texans. You could make a convincing argument for most of the Texans O'line, D'line & Linebackers to be there.

This guy believes Duane Brown (a lesser known guy) was snubbed.

Hard to summarize for linemen since they generate few stats, but Brown at least has only given up 2 sacks and 2 tackles this year. Don't know the stats for the other tackles who made it. Combine that with the better run blocking in general and I could agree with calling him a snub, yeah.The other Texans who I think should have made it are Cushing over Ray Lewis, which is pretty much a no-brainer. Ray made it on name recognition, period. Center Chris Myers should have made it and probably should be the starter. The rest, linebackers and defensive ends and such, I think are worthy alternates but I wouldn't argue them over the guys who made it. JJ Watt should be there ahead of Freeny, but then so should a dozen other defensive ends, and some of them more deserving than Watt.

 

[5Rings]

Wow. What a joke that Willis and Urlacher made it over Fletcher. He's been arguably the best ILB in the league this season, while Urlacher hasn't been as good and Willis hasn't been himself. Talk about name recognition. Just when I thought London was starting to get some respect for his unheralded HOF career.

Just wow eta--I see JustWinBaby handled it

 

[butcher boy]

I dont see how London Fletcher is a clear snub over Patrick Willis. Willis' stats are better pretty much across the board except for tackles which is a bad stat to base this on anyway. Couple this with the fact that you know the 49er D is on the field a hell of a lot less than the Washington D, and it's clear who should get the nod.

 

[AmosMoses]

Stafford, Cruz, Fletcher, Suh obvious snubs.

 

[butcher boy]

To everyone who thinks Suh is a snub.

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