It's been annouced that Johnny Knox will be in South Florida this week to particpate in the Pro Bowl. Johnny Knox will officially replace Percy Harvin as the return specialist for the game. Even though he is listed as kick return specialist, look for Knox to get a lot of playing time at wide receiver as well. Traditionally the stars don't want to play very long and will let the younger guys play a greater number of snaps. This used to happend to Bears special teamer Brendon Ayanbadejo who would rarely play a snap at linebacker for the Bears, but would play linebacker for 40 or 50 plays in the pro bowl because no one else wanted to play.
Congrats to Johnny, who will be the first Bears rookie since Hester to make the Pro Bowl, hopefully he can win the MVP trophy for a nice little bonus.
aha! good point on the stars not wanting to play much - hadn't thought of that.
ReplyDeleteWay to go Johnny.
Good to see a bear in the pro bowl.
ReplyDeleteBriggs is going too right? So there are two in the ProBowl
ReplyDeleteMaybe I missed him but I thought we had nobody, but I could be wrong. I always like to see bears make the pro bowl but beyond that I don't really care one way or the other about the game.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Hey look there's a C on that Helmet out there. Then i get distracted by something shinny
ReplyDeleteThe more I read about it the more I think that having the pro bowl before the superbowl is a terrible idea...
ReplyDeleteBtw thought I would add that the next guy into the afc at QB is ryan fitzpatrick which means to go bowling at qb for the afc you needed to be marginaly better than ryan fitzpatrick? 27 dropouts at last count... cant wait to see the elite...
Something has got to be done about the Pro Bowl, for sure.
ReplyDeleteWould making it a midseason game inspire these guys to participate?