2016 Pro Bowl

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2016 NFL Pro Bowl
2016 Pro Bowl logo.png
Team Irvin Team Rice
49 27
Head coach:
Winston Moss[1]
(Green Bay Packers)		 Head coach:
Andy Reid
(Kansas City Chiefs)
1234 Total
Team Irvin 1414147 49
Team Rice 7776 27
DateJanuary 31, 2016
StadiumAloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii
Offensive MVPRussell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks)
Defensive MVPMichael Bennett (Seattle Seahawks)
RefereePete Morelli[2]
Attendance50,000
Ceremonies
National anthemCaptain Skye Martin, USMC
Coin tossADM Scott H. Swift, USN
LtGen John A. Toolan, USMC
TV in the United States
NetworkESPN
AnnouncersMike Tirico (play-by-play)
Jon Gruden (analyst)
Lisa Salters (sideline reporter)
Nielsen ratings2.8 (7.987 million)

The 2016 Pro Bowl (branded as the 2016 Pro Bowl presented by USAA for sponsorship reasons) was the National Football League's all-star game for the 2015 season, which was played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 31, 2016.

Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs and Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers were selected to coach the teams due to their teams being the highest seeded teams from each conference to lose in the Divisional Round of 2015–16 NFL playoffs, which has been the convention since the 2010 Pro Bowl.[3] On January 27, Mike McCarthy announced that he would not be coaching the Pro Bowl due to an illness and also announced that assistant head coach Winston Moss would take over head coaching duties.[1] This was also the sixth consecutive year that the Pro Bowl took place prior to the Super Bowl. At the Pro Bowl Draft, the Chiefs' coaching staff was assigned to Team Rice, and the Packers' coaching staff was assigned to Team Irvin.[4]

The game continued the fantasy draft format that debuted with the 2014 Pro Bowl. The two teams were to be drafted and captained by two Hall of Famers, Jerry Rice (winning 2014 Pro Bowl captain) and Michael Irvin (winning 2015 Pro Bowl captain).[5] Darren Woodson and Eric Davis served as defensive co-captains for Irvin and Rice respectively, in both cases reuniting two former teammates (Irvin and Woodson were teammates on the Dallas Cowboys from 1992 to 1999, while Rice and Davis played together with the San Francisco 49ers from 1990 to 1995).[3] The Fantasy draft was held January 27 at 7:30 P.M. EST on ESPN2 at Wheeler Army Airfield in Wahiawa, Hawaii as part of an extension to the NFL's military appreciation campaign.

Game format[]

The game format was nearly the same for 2016 as it had been in 2015. The previous year's experimental rule of kicking the point after touchdown from the 15-yard line became a permanent rule. The goal posts remained at their normal 18-foot width in 2016, as compared to the narrower 14-foot width from the 2015 Pro Bowl.

  • Two former players drafted players onto the teams. Each was assisted by two player captains and one NFL.com fantasy football champion. Michael Irvin was assisted by player captains Geno Atkins and Devonta Freeman, while Jerry Rice was assisted by player captains Odell Beckham Jr. and Aaron Donald.[6]
  • Forty-three players were assigned to each team, down from 44 in 2015 (a regular game-day active roster has 46).
  • A two-minute warning was given in the first and third quarters (as well as in the second and fourth quarters), and the ball changed hands after each quarter.
  • The coin toss determined which team was awarded possession first. There were no kickoffs; the ball was placed on the 25-yard line at the start of each quarter and after scoring plays.
  • Defenses were now permitted to play cover two and press coverage. Prior to 2014, only man coverage was allowed, except for goal line situations.
  • Beginning at the two-minute mark of every quarter, if the offense did not gain at least one yard, the clock stopped as if the play were an incomplete pass.
  • The game clock started after an incomplete pass on the signal of the referee, except inside the last two minutes of the first half and the last five minutes of the second half.
  • A 35-second/25-second play clock was used instead of the usual 40-second/25-second clock.
  • The game clock did not stop on quarterback sacks outside the final two minutes of the game. Formerly, the clock stopped on these situations outside the final two minutes of the second and fourth quarters.

Summary[]

Starting lineups[]

Box Score[]

2016 Pro Bowl: Team Irvin vs. Team Rice
1 2 34Total
Team Irvin 14 14 14749
Team Rice 7 7 7627

at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Date: January 31, 2016
  • Game time: 7:00 p.m. EST / 2:00 p.m. HST
  • Game weather: 83 °F (28 °C), sunny
  • Game attendance: 50,000
  • Referee: Pete Morelli
  • TV announcers (ESPN): Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden, and Lisa Salters
  • Recap, Gamebook

Rosters[]

Team Rice[]

Team Rice

Quarterbacks

  •  4 Derek Carr (Oakland Raiders) [a]
  • 10 Eli Manning (New York Giants) [a]
  •  5 Tyrod Taylor (Buffalo Bills) [a]

Running Backs

  • 33 Chris Ivory (New York Jets) [a]
  • 22 Doug Martin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
  • 28 Adrian Peterson (Minnesota Vikings)
  • 30 John Kuhn (Green Bay Packers) FB [a]

Wide Receivers

  • 13 Odell Beckham Jr. (New York Giants) (C)
  • 89 Amari Cooper (Oakland Raiders) [a]
  • 13 T. Y. Hilton (Indianapolis Colts) [a]
  • 14 Jarvis Landry (Miami Dolphins) [a]

Tight Ends

Offensive tackles

 

Offensive guards

Centers

Defensive ends

  • 97 Everson Griffen (Minnesota Vikings) [a]
  • 94 Cameron Jordan (New Orleans Saints) [a]
  • 52 Khalil Mack (Oakland Raiders)

Defensive tackles

Outside linebackers

  • 58 Elvis Dumervil (Baltimore Ravens) [a]
  • 91 Tamba Hali (Kansas City Chiefs)
  • 56 Julius Peppers (Green Bay Packers) [a]

Inside linebackers

  • 52 Clay Matthews III (Green Bay Packers)
  • 54 Bobby Wagner (Seattle Seahawks)
  

Cornerbacks

Safeties

  • 29 Mike Adams (Indianapolis Colts) [a]
  • 29 Eric Berry (Kansas City Chiefs)
  • 24 Charles Woodson (Oakland Raiders)

Punter

Placekicker

Return specialist

  • 16 Tyler Lockett (Seattle Seahawks)

Long snapper

Special Teamer

  • 30 Cedric Peerman (Cincinnati Bengals) [a]

Team Irvin[]

Team Irvin

Quarterbacks

  •  5 Teddy Bridgewater (Minnesota Vikings) [a]
  •  3 Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks)
  •  3 Jameis Winston (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) [a]

Running Backs

  • 24 Devonta Freeman (Atlanta Falcons) (C)
  • 30 Todd Gurley (St. Louis Rams)
  • 28 Latavius Murray (Oakland Raiders) [a]
  • 42 Patrick DiMarco (Atlanta Falcons) FB [a]

Wide Receivers

  • 18 A. J. Green (Cincinnati Bengals)
  • 10 DeAndre Hopkins (Houston Texans)
  • 11 Julio Jones (Atlanta Falcons)
  • 15 Allen Robinson (Jacksonville Jaguars) [a]

Tight Ends

Offensive tackles

 

Offensive guards

  • 66 David DeCastro (Pittsburgh Steelers)
  • 70 Zack Martin (Dallas Cowboys)
  • 73 Marshal Yanda (Baltimore Ravens)

Centers

Defensive Ends

  • 94 Ezekiel Ansah (Detroit Lions)
  • 72 Michael Bennett (Seattle Seahawks)
  • 96 Carlos Dunlap (Cincinnati Bengals) [a]

Defensive tackles

  • 97 Geno Atkins (Cincinnati Bengals) (C)
  • 93 Calais Campbell (Arizona Cardinals)
  • 99 Jurrell Casey (Tennessee Titans) [a]

Outside Linebackers

Inside Linebackers

 

Cornerbacks

  • 24 Adam Jones (Cincinnati Bengals) [a]
  • 41 Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (New York Giants) [a]
  • 25 Richard Sherman (Seattle Seahawks)
  • 21 Desmond Trufant (Atlanta Falcons)

Safeties

Punter

Placekicker

Return Specialist

  • 43 Darren Sproles (Philadelphia Eagles)

Long snapper

  • 46 Jon Weeks (Houston Texans)

Special Teamer

Selected but did not participate[]

Selected but did not participate

Quarterbacks

  • 12 Tom Brady (New England Patriots) [b]
  •  1 Cam Newton (Carolina Panthers) [c]
  • 12 Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay Packers) [b]
  •  3 Carson Palmer (Arizona Cardinals) [b]
  •  7 Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers) [b]

Running Backs

  • 25 LeSean McCoy (Buffalo Bills) [b]
  • 28 Jonathan Stewart (Carolina Panthers) [c]

Fullbacks

Wide Receivers

  • 84 Antonio Brown (Pittsburgh Steelers) [b]
  • 11 Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona Cardinals) [b]
  • 81 Calvin Johnson (Detroit Lions) [b]
  • 15 Brandon Marshall (New York Jets) [b]

Tight Ends

  • 87 Rob Gronkowski (New England Patriots) [b]
  • 88 Greg Olsen (Carolina Panthers) [c]
  

Offensive tackles

Offensive guards

Centers

  • 67 Ryan Kalil (Carolina Panthers) [c]
  • 51 Mike Pouncey (Miami Dolphins) [b]

Defensive Ends

Defensive tackles

  • 99 Kawann Short (Carolina Panthers) [c]

Linebackers

  • 91 Jamie Collins (New England Patriots) [b]
  • 58 Thomas Davis (Carolina Panthers) [c]
  • 50 Justin Houston (Kansas City Chiefs) [b]
  • 59 Luke Kuechly (Carolina Panthers) [c]
  • 58 Von Miller (Denver Broncos) [c]
  • 94 DeMarcus Ware (Denver Broncos) [c]
  

Cornerbacks

Safeties

  • 31 Kam Chancellor (Seattle Seahawks) [b]
  • 32 Tyrann Mathieu (Arizona Cardinals) [b]
  • 20 Reggie Nelson (Cincinnati Bengals) [b]
  • 29 Earl Thomas (Seattle Seahawks) [b]

Placekickers

  •  3 Stephen Gostkowski (New England Patriots) [b]

Special Teamers

  • 18 Matthew Slater (New England Patriots) [b]

Notes: Players must have accepted their invitations as alternates to be listed; those who declined, such as Philip Rivers, are not considered Pro Bowlers.

(C) signifies the player was selected as a captain
a Replacement selection due to injury or vacancy
b Injured/suspended player; selected but did not participate
c Selected but did not play because his team advanced to Super Bowl 50 (see Pro Bowl "Player Selection" section)

Number of selections per team[]

Broadcasting[]

The game was televised nationally by ESPN, which has the exclusive broadcast rights to the Pro Bowl through to 2022.

Westwood One radio broadcast the game nationally, with Kevin Kugler on play-by-play, Tony Boselli on color commentary, and Laura Okmin on the sidelines.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Demovsky, Rob. "Mike McCarthy won't travel to Hawaii because of illness". espn.com. ESPN. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  2. ^ Griep, Marcus. "Pete Morelli selected as 2016 Pro Bowl referee". footballzebras.com. Football Zebras. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Reid, McCarthy and staffs to coach in Pro Bowl". USA Today. Associated Press. January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  4. ^ "Pro Bowl 2016". ESPN. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Rice, Irvin Set To Captain NFL's 2016 Pro Bowl".
  6. ^ "Geno Atkins, Odell Beckham, Jr., Aaron Donald and Devonta Freeman Named 2016 Pro Bowl Captains". nflcommunications.com. NFL. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

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