How to watch 2023 Pro Bowl Skills, live stream, channel, time, events

The 2023 Pro Bowl will be held this weekend and on Thursday we will have the Skills Showdown from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

The 2023 Pro Bowl will be held this weekend and on Thursday we will have the Skills Showdown from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The Skills showdown will feature a ton of events for all NFL positions including Best Catch, Precision Passing, Longest Drive, Lightning Round, and one non-football challenge called Dodgeball.

This will be a great night that will feature your favorite NFL players competing, don’t miss it here are all the details to live stream the action below.

2023 Pro Bowl Skills Showdown

  • When: Thursday, February 2
  • Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: ESPN
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

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Parsons, Diggs among Cowboys in Thursday’s Pro Bowl Games skills events

Dodgeball and a Lightning Round of field day events and football drills will be part of the opening night’s festivities from Las Vegas. | From @ToddBrock24f7

The newly-revamped Pro Bowl Games will kick off Thursday night on ESPN, with several Cowboys taking part in various skills competitions.

Five events are to be broadcast from Las Vegas beginning at 7 p.m. ET, with more skills events and a triple-header of flag football matches finishing off the all-star festivities on Sunday.

Dallas has participants scheduled to play in two of the opening night’s contests.

The dodgeball competition will be a bracket-style tournament with four five-player teams, divided by offensive and defensive players and also by conference. The NFC offense will feature Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb; cornerback Trevon Diggs and linebacker Micah Parsons will play for the NFC defense.

Lightning Round is billed as a three-part elimination challenge that is part-elementary school field day, part football. Participants will start out competing in a water balloon toss; those who advance will then field punts from a JUGS machine. The last portion of the event will see finalists throwing footballs at a target in an attempt to dump a bucket of water on an opposing coach’s head.

Guard Zack Martin, defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, center Tyler Biadasz, and return specialist KaVontae Turpin will represent the Cowboys in the Lightning Round.

A precision passing event featuring three quarterbacks from each conference, a longest golf drive competition (five players from each conference), and the opening round of the best catch contest (two players from each conference) will also be aired Thursday night.

Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs won last year’s best catch contest, beating out three wide receivers, including his brother Stefon of the Buffalo Bills.

On Sunday, the two highest vote-getters from the best catch contest will go head-to-head in the finale. Three kickers from each conference will play Kick-Tac-Toe, five players from each conference will race in a side-by-side agility relay, and two five-man squads from each conference will try to outmuscle one another in a best-of-three weighted wall pull.

Lawrence will compete on one of the NFC’s teams in that “Move the Chains” event; Martin and Biadasz are on the other.

Flag football will serve as the grand finale, with three games to be played. AFC and NFC teams will play 7-on-7 matches against one another: no linemen except for centers, who will only snap the ball and then kneel for the duration of each play (as is the rule in 7-on-7).

Biadasz will be one of the NFC’s centers. Lamb, Parsons, Diggs, and Turpin are skill-position members of the conference’s roster.

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2023 Pro Bowl will feature flag football instead of traditional game

The NFL will put on a week of skills competitions and fan-friendly events, but eliminate the game that had become a half-speed walkthrough. | From @ToddBrock24f7

The penultimate football game of the 2022 season is going to look very different.

The NFL announced on Monday that the annual all-star event known as the Pro Bowl will now become “The Pro Bowl Games,” and the week of festivities will no longer culminate in a padded football game.

Skills competitions, musical performances, and fan-friendly events like dodgeball will still make up much of the weeklong celebration, with popular voting still deciding which players get the honor of a Pro Bowl nomination. But at week’s end, the marquee event will pit the AFC and NFC squads against one another in a game of flag football.

Cowboys guard Zack Martin, linebacker Micah Parsons, cornerback Trevon Diggs, and punter Bryan Anger were voted in last year as Pro Bowl starters, though Martin did not play due to injury. Left tackle Tyron Smith was chosen as a reserve but was also injured and declined to attend. Wide receiver CeeDee Lamb went as an alternate player. Quarterback Dak Prescott was invited as an alternate but opted out in order to get a head start on his offseason recovery.

Peyton Manning has already been confirmed as a member of one of the coaching staffs for the game that will be played Feb. 5 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The Super Bowl will take place the following week in Glendale, Ariz.

Participation in the Pro Bowl game has fallen off over the years, to the point that the game itself is essentially a walkthrough for the players who attend. In recent years, the skills competitions and surrounding events have created far more excitement and buzz; these changes seek to capitalize on that and give fans more legitimate competition while keeping players out of harm’s way by minimizing the risk of injury.

“We’ve received invaluable feedback from players, teams and fans about re-imagining the Pro Bowl, and as a result, we’re thrilled to use The Pro Bowl Games as a platform to spotlight flag football as an integral part of the sport’s future while also introducing fun, new forms of competition and entertainment that will bring our players, their families and fans closer than ever before,” Peter O’Reilly, NFL EVP of club business and league events, said in a statement.

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Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs beats out 3 Pro Bowl WRs for ‘Best Catch’

Trevon Diggs went between the legs and did a front flip to top Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, and his own brother Stefon in the contest. | From @ToddBrock24f7

Nothing about the Pro Bowl or the accompanying skills competition counts for anything but bragging rights. But that’s apparently enough for a couple of Cowboys making their first appearance at the all-star event.

On the same night when Dallas linebacker Micah Parsons beat out the league’s fastest man- the Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill- in a foot race, it was a Cowboys defensive back, not a wide receiver, who surprisingly walked away with first place in the Best Catch contest.

As the lineup for the Best Catch competition was announced Thursday night at Las Vegas Ballpark, there was definitely a feeling of “one of these things is not like the others.” Along with Hill, Minnesota’s Justin Jefferson, and Buffalo’s Stefon Diggs… was Dallas cornerback Trevon Diggs. The possibilities that could come from a good old sibling rivalry were obviously just too rich for the NFL to pass up.

Trevon played receiver for part of his college career at Alabama, before coach Nick Saban famously convinced him to switch to defense. But while the 2021 interception champ has shown impressive hands in his two pro seasons, pitting him in a catch contest against the three whose sole job it is to catch passes felt unfair.

Only, that is, until the balls started flying.

A panel of three judges (including David Tyree and Santonio Holmes, both of whom know something about making an impressive grab) would hand out scores. Each player’s total would come from two receptions: one with a prop, and one without.

Trevon’s non-prop catch came between his legs as he sailed through the air, snaring a Kirk Cousins pass with one hand against the back of his thigh and drawing it up into his body- never using his other hand- as he crashed to the padded mat with possession.

The younger Diggs brother earned a 96, 100, and 100 from the judges for the effort.

Stefon did a one-handed sideline stab, Hill tried to re-create Tyree’s Super Bowl helmet catch, and Jefferson brought one ball through his legs while catching a second to close out the first round.

Despite their receptions, Trevon took a slight lead into the second round, where props were allowed.

Stefon started by making a catch while spotlighting the Buffalo tradition of crashing through a tailgating table (which was draped with Trevon’s jersey). Jefferson went off a trampoline, grabbed a ball from the Vikings mascot as he flew overhead, and caught a pass while airborne with his other hand. Hill donned a cheetah-print coat, launched himself off the trampoline, caught a high pass, and attempted to slam-dunk the ball through his son’s waiting arms as he landed.

All a fun show, but it was Trevon’s second catch that brought the house down. Taking a throw from Russell Wilson, he vaulted off the trampoline and did a full front flip, catching the ball while upside down and then completing the 360.

Even after his unanimous scores of 100-plus were rounded down, Diggs- the cornerback– was crowned the winner of the Best Catch competition over the three Pro Bowl receivers.

“I had to represent for all my DBs out there,” Diggs said afterward. “They say that we can’t catch. It’s a new age; we can catch.”

Offensive coordinator Kellen Moore admitted back in December that Diggs has lobbied for doing it in a game.

“There are a number of defensive guys that are trying to get on the offensive opportunities here,” Moore told reporters. “Trevon has been selling [the idea]… So we’ll see.”

The front flips and between-the-leg business are stunts that will likely never come up during an actual game. But Diggs showed off a jaw-dropping skill set Thursday night, one that just might finally convince Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy to draw up a few routes for him here and there.

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Report: NBA ‘really’ wants LaMelo Ball involved in Skills Competition at All-Star weekend

After a breakout rookie season in Charlotte, the NBA is reportedly focused on getting LaMelo Ball involved in the All-Star Game and Skill Competition.

While the NBA’s plans for an All-Star Weekend may not have full approval across the league, it appears the league is set to move forward with an abbreviated version of its annual midseason celebration of talent. Currently proposed as a one-day event comprised of solely the All-Star Game as opposed to the typical weekend-long schedule, the league is reportedly looking at ways to incorporate more of the traditional contests as well.

Prior to Friday’s Pelicans-Mavericks game on ESPN, NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski spoke on the league’s plans to include the Slam Dunk, 3-Point Shooting and Skills competition alongside the All-Star Game.

“The league is looking at having the Slam Dunk competition at halftime of that Sunday night, March 7 (All-Star) game. Pre-game, 3-Point Shooting and Skills Competition and I’m told that one player that the league would really like to get involved in that Skills Competition? The Rookie of the Year favorite right now, Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball.”

Ball currently leads all rookies in points, rebounds, assists, steals and is the only rookie with a triple-double this season. He’s also quickly established himself as one of the most popular players in the league despite being in the NBA just two months.

Ball would likely be one of the star features of the Skills Competition. The degree to which players not already involved in the All-Star Game will be invited to take part in the pre-game and halftime competitions also is up in the air.

If the league goes forward with the Skills Competition, though, Ball would likely be one of the first names called.

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