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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.If I'm not mistaken the basic difference is that the All Pro team is strictly starters, while the Pro Bowl includes backups, as well as players that went to the Pro Bowl as an alternate to replace players who could not attend due to injury - or in the last couple years, replacements for those playing in the Super Bowl.I've heard people say x amount all-pro vs. x amount of pro bowls. What is the fundamental difference between the two?
The Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team is an annual selection of the best players in the National Football League (NFL) by position as selected by a national panel of media members of the Associated Press. Unlike selection to the Pro Bowl (all star game), votes are cast for outstanding players by position without consideration for whether the player competes in the American Football Conference (AFC) or National Football Conference (NFC). The Associated NFL All-Pro Team is the longest running selection awards program in existence
The First Team consists of the top one or two players at each position; the Second Team consists of the runners-up at each position. One player is selected at quarterback, fullback, tight end, center, punter, place kicker, and kick returner, while two players are selected at running back, wide receiver, offensive tackle, offensive guard, outside linebacker, inside/middle linebacker, defensive end, defensive tackle, cornerback, and safety.
The Associated Press and its Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team is the "All-Pro team" that is of most note, likely because it has been consecutively chosen since the 1940s. The United Press International All-Pro poll began then as well, yet beginning in 1970 UPI began to choose All-Conference teams, that is one each from two conferences in the National Football League, the AFC and NFC. UPI last chose those teams in 1996. The Newspaper Enterprise Association began choosing All-Pro teams in 1954 and they ran though 1996. The Pro Football Writers Association began choosing All-Pros in 1966 and continues today. In the early 1990s they began publishing their All-Pro team in Pro Football Weekly.
In the case with the press polls, as are mentioned above, they are simply a poll of writers who are asked to select the top players at each position on a football squad. The votes are tallied and were published in the various newspaper syndicates, like the AP, UPI, NEA, etc.
I've heard people say x amount all-pro vs. x amount of pro bowls. What is the fundamental difference between the two?
Thanks for the info guys. Didn't really know the difference except to be an all-pro is better.
Well, to be more precise, the Pro Bowl is the official league recognition, while the All-Pro team is the media recognition system.
Seems weird that everyone puts more stock into the media recognition then. The consensus seems to be selected as an all-pro trumps a Pro-bowl selection
Seems weird that everyone puts more stock into the media recognition then. The consensus seems to be selected as an all-pro trumps a Pro-bowl selection
Seems weird that everyone puts more stock into the media recognition then. The consensus seems to be selected as an all-pro trumps a Pro-bowl selection
As only 27 people are named to the all pro, but 106 or more are named to the pro-bowl. The all-pro is more exclusive.
I would think Brady most likely would, and possibly Wilfork.got it. seems pretty cut and dry then. I would assume alot of people get snubbed with such a short list of names being eligible to make it. Well brady is an all-pro this much we know.
How many other pats do you think can achieve all-pro status?
It's kind of funny that the media gets to vote for the All Pro team, when half the time they seem just as clueless or biased as fans.
I've always looked at it as their are two pro bowl teams and only one all-pro team so basically the all-pro team is a combination of the pro bowl teams.