Russell Wilson Snubbed from Pro Bowl, Still Long Way from Earning Top-5 Respect

December 24, 2014   ·   Kristopher Knox   ·   Jump to comments

On Tuesday evening, the National Football League announced which players had been selected to participate in the 2015 Pro Bowl.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was not among those names.
It is, of course, difficult to make a case against the signal-callers who did make the list: Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos, the Dallas Cowboys' Tony Romo, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Indianapolis Colts' Andrew Luck and Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.
Instead of being named an all-star alongside the spectacular six, Wilson was named an alternate, putting him in the good-but-not-great group of guys like Philip Rivers and Matthew Stafford. All six 2015 Pro Bowl quarterbacks have passed for 32 or more touchdowns with one game left to play, and only Romo (3,406 yards passing) has passed for fewer than 4,000 yards.
In today's pass-first NFL, though, numbers alone won't make you an all-star. New O...

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