The NFL is set to announce the final Pro Bowl rosters for 2021 next week, and while there is a bunch of criteria and metrics that the league uses to determine who makes the cut, as well as a healthy weight on fan voting via social media, a lot of true football fans have a problem with how the players are decided.
Pro Football Focus has come out this week and developed their own way of creating the Pro Bowl rosters, using their own player grades for the season to determine who makes the cut. For Washington fans, this has resulted in three players from D.C. being named to the team, which is set to play a virtual Madden 21 game due to the coronavirus pandemic on January 31st. These are the guys who made it:
- RG Brandon Scherff
- DE Chase Young
- DT Jonathan Allen
Those are all great nominations, and fans can be happy that they have some solid representation on the roster. However, it’s fair to feel like a number of players were snubbed, including the following:
- WR Terry McLaurin
- P Tress Way
- C Chase Roullier
- DE Montez Sweat
- DT Daron Payne
- CB Kendall Fuller
Of course, despite how much we would love to see it, you can’t stack the Pro Bowl roster with a bunch of players from what is at the moment a below-.500 team. What will be interesting to see is how much the actual Pro Bowl roster differs from what PFF put together based on their player grades. We will find out in a few day’s time.
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