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NFL Pro Bowl Snubs 2017: Twitter Reacts to This Year’s Biggest Omissions
- Updated: December 21, 2016
The rosters for the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl were announced on Tuesday night. Players named to the annual all-star game were selected based on a combination of player, coach and fan voting.
As is usually the case, the vast majority of the players selected were wholly deserving. After all, it’s difficult to argue with the addition of guys like Tom Brady (109.7 passer rating, 22 touchdowns, one interception) and Le’Veon Bell (1,747 combined rushing and receiving yards, seven touchdowns).
Of course, as is also often the case, some players were omitted who many would consider equally deserving. This is simply how things unfold when a league of 1,700 players gets boiled down to two squads of top performers.
Unfortunately, not every great player can get invited to the Pro Bowl in a given season—though they well may end up there after a few rounds of withdrawals commence—and when a worthy player doesn’t get in, someone is going to let you know about it.
Let’s take a look at some of the top snubs from this year’s Pro Bowl selection, along with some of the top comments from the Twitter world.
First, though, let’s take a look at the players who were selected.
2017 Pro Bowl Rosters
Who Got Snubbed?
One notable name absent from the NFC’s Pro Bowl roster is Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford. One could make the argument that Stafford deserves to be there. He’s passed for 3,722 yards with 22 touchdowns and eight interceptions. He’s also helped engineer eight fourth-quarter comebacks.
Yet Stafford—and every other member of the 9-5 Lions—was left off the initial Pro Bowl roster. Lions fans are naturally unhappy about this.
Matthew Stafford didn’t make the Pro Bowl. Lmao, what a sick joke.
— Detroit Lions Fans (@DetLionBlood) December 21, 2016
Longtime veteran offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz isn’t happy that Green Bay Packers tackle David Bakhtiari wasn’t selected. Schwartz also doesn’t seem to like the lack of right tackles selected to the 2017 Pro Bowl—his brother Mitchell Schwartz plays right tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Biggest Pro Bowl OL snub… easily …
