2026 Non-Pro Bowl-Selected All-Pros

 

Once again, I post here my choices for the National Football League players that I believe are deserving of being in the NFL Pro Bowl. As mentioned many times before, the issue comes down to largely a popularity contest -- mostly due to fan voting, and even a name recognition contest -- as opposed to more substantive evaluations of players' performances. And these factors affect players' salaries, bonuses, and ultimately even their consideration for the Hall of Fame. The original inspiration for these lists was a televised game broadcast with a graphic comparing inside linebackers London Fletcher and Ray Lewis; over a certain period, their statistics were remarkably similar (and a couple of Fletcher's slightly better), yet Fletcher had never been to a single Pro Bowl while Lewis was selected nearly every year of his career.

 

NFC

Offense

QB: Jared Goff, Detroit Lions; Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers

RB: Kyren Williams, LA Rams (this seems like any every-season occurrence)

TE: Juwan Johnson, New Orleans Saints

OT: Rasheed Walker, Green Bay Packers; Jake Matthews, Atlanta Falcons; Darnell Wright, Chicago Bears

OG: Evan Brown, Arizona Cardinals

C: Ryan Neuzil, Atlanta Falcons

Defense

DT: Jalen Redmond, Minnesota Vikings; Jordan Davis, Philadelphia Eagles

DE: Montez Sweat, Chicago Bears

OLB: Josh Sweat, Arizona Cardinals

ILB: Nate Landman, Los Angeles Rams

CB: Keisean Nixon, Green Bay Packers; Andru Phillips, New York Giants

FS: Kamren Kinchens, Los Angeles Rams

SS: Tykee Smith, Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Kam Curl, Los Angeles Rams

 

Special Teams

K: Will Reichard, Minnesota Vikings

Return Specialist: Skyy Moore, San Francisco 49ers 

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AFC

Offense

QB: Daniel Jones, Indianapolis Colts

WR: Jaylen Waddle, Miami Dolphins

TE: Hunter Henry, New England Patriots

OT: Mike McGlinchey, Denver Broncos (again)

OG: Mike Onwenu, New England Patriots

C: Connor McGovern, Buffalo Bills

 

Defense

DT: DeForest Buckner, Indianapolis Colts; Cameron Heyward, Pittsburgh Steelers

DE: Danielle Hunter, Houston Texans (again)

ILB: Cedric Gray, Tennessee Titans; Jordyn Brooks, Miami Dolphins

CB: Kamari Lassiter, Houston Texans; Tyson Campbell, Cleveland Browns; Marcus Jones, New England Patriots

FS: Minkah Fitzpatrick, Miami Dolphins

SS: Talanoa Hufanga, Denver Broncos; Nick Cross, Indianapolis Colts (again)

 

Special Teams

K: Nick Folk, New York Jets

P: Jake Bailey, Miami Dolphins 

Return Specialist: Isaiah Williams, New York Jets

Excerpts and comments: "Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist"

 

Here are some excerpts from The Guardian article "Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist." My comments are in square brackets. I read this and started out laughing at (and copying) the merely comical. By the end, not so much.

 

"'I'm a libertarian, or a classical liberal, who deviates in one minor detail, where I'm worried about the antichrist,' Thiel said during his third lecture...." [In other words, most "classical liberals" aren't so worried about the Antichrist, but he is. This was in a THIRD lecture, mind you]

"Tickets for the series went for $200, selling out within hours...." [Most of the audience was young men -- who not only had nothing better to do, not only had $200 to blow on something like this, but WANTED to go and listen to what Peter Thiel had to say on this topic -- ???]

"The Silicon Valley heavyweight drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including the French-American theorist René Girard, whom Thiel knew at Stanford University, and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs. He credited the English Catholic theologian John Henry Newman as the inspiration for his four-part series, saying: 'Newman did four, so I'm doing four. I'm happy about it.'" [He gave the same number of lectures that John Henry Newman did, so now they’re even and he’s happy about it. It’s not often -- or, at least it didn’t USED to be -- that "religious thinkers" can include a "Nazi jurist." That the "work" of the "jurist" in question "helped create the core of {Thiel's} own beliefs" needs no further comment]

"In recent months, he has spoken to theologians and podcasters about the antichrist both publicly and in private...." [Because, why WOULDN'T you talk to a podcaster along with theologians on this subject?]

"Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: 'It's become quite difficult to hide one's money....'" [Personally, I can't get a goddam prescription filled without the Antichrist screwing things up]

 

[Peter Thiel says]  "When I met [Benjamin] Netanyahu early in 2024, about a year and a half ago, we talked about what he's doing in Gaza, and the one-liner he had was: 'I can't just Dresdenize Gaza -- you can't just firebomb them.' So it's like, come on, 'I'm less of a war criminal than Winston Churchill. Why am I in so much trouble?' " [Hmmmm, where to even start, but obviously there WAS "only" firebombing "them" -- and that it has all been reduced to the terms of a "one-liner" says all there is to say about the horrific unrighteousness of all that we’ve seen]

[Peter Thiel says]  "The US world police is the one truly sovereign country. They always say the president is the mayor of the US and the dictator of the world."  [This man is, technically, insane. Or high on glue]

[Peter Thiel says]  "I'm sort of always in favor of maximal free speech, but my one concrete test is whether I can talk about the antichrist. If I can't, that’s too restrictive."