NFL Pro Bowl Selections 2017: Voting Results and Full List of Players Announced

Conference pride is more commonly associated with college football than the NFL, but the best the AFC and NFC have to offer will square off at the 2017 Pro Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 29, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

The respective rosters were announced Tuesday, per NFL.com. According to NFL.com, the rosters were determined using the votes of fans, players and coaches, with each group counting for one-third of the value. 

Here is a look at the rosters:

The 2017 Pro Bowl returns to the conference-against-conference format after three years of an unconferenced game in which captains picked the rosters. Another marquee change is the fact it will take place in Florida instead of Hawaii, which removes one of the attractions of the game for some of the players. 

Detroit Lions cornerback Darius Slay suggested as much, per Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com: “Is the Pro Bowl even in Hawaii no more? It’s really pointless. That’s what I really wanted to do…That’s why I wanted to go. I’d rather just get the All-Pro status and don’t go Pro Bowl. Because I just really wanted to go to Hawaii, really wanted to just to go to Hawaii for the free.”

Slay doesn’t have to worry about that, as Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press noted:

No Lions selected for the Pro Bowl despite their 9-5 record.

— Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) December 21, 2016

Perhaps the inclusion of the Pro …

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