2014 Pro Bowl “Official” Rosters: Day 2 Update

Jan 22, 2014; Ko

If you missed any of the constant announcements throughout the season, the Pro Bowl has taken a drastically different form this year. Instead of the typically bland “conferenced” game  that essentially came and went on the Sunday before the Super Bowl, the NFL has warped the new Pro Bowl into something much more “entertaining.”

The somewhat confusing  festivities started Tuesday, which we attempted to cover in an update on Ramblin’ Fan yesterday morning. To quickly sum it up, the “team captains” took sides with either Deion Sanders or Jerry Rice, followed by a mini-draft of several “low key” positions (i.e. guards, centers, punters, fullbacks, defensive tackles, special teamers). Those Day 1 picked were, oddly enough, done on a position-by-position basis, as opposed to the typical, fantasy football-style, “open” draft process.

However, Day 2 was a completely different monster. The NFL dropped the previous day’s selection system and allowed Team Rice and Team Sanders to pick freely among the remaining players, with some limitations, of course. The two squad alternated selections, being given 2:00 minutes per pick to make their decision. As with fantasy teams, there was a limit to the number of players at each position that any singular team could select; no team could pick more than half of any specific positional grouping. Once the second-to-last member of an position was picked (ex. the 5th offensive tackle out of the 6 available), the final member was automatically assigned to the other team.

An interesting concept, if nothing else.

To end the Draft, the NFL also mandated a trade between the two teams, which, oddly enough, seemed less like a trade and more like Team Rice getting to “steal” whichever player he wanted from Team Sanders. In that deal, Rice and his captains took Robert Mathis, the lead leader in sacks this season, and sent over Brian Orakpo.

Here are those picks from yesterday…

Team Rice

Drew Brees (Captain)

Team Sanders

Andrew Luck

Team Sanders

Cam Newton

Team Rice

Philip Rivers

Team Sanders

Nick Foles

Team Rice

Alex Smith

Team Sanders

Jamaal Charlers (Captain)

Team Rice

LeSean McCoy

Team Rice

DeMarco Murray

Team Sanders

Eddie Lacy

Team Rice

Matt Forte

Team Sanders

Alfred Morris

Team Sanders

Dez Bryant

Team Sanders

A.J. Green

Team Rice

Josh Gordon

Team Rice

Alshon Jeffery

Team Sanders

Antonio Brown

Team Rice

Brandon Marshall

Team Sanders

DeSean Jackson

Team Rice

Larry Fitzgerald

Team Rice

Jimmy Graham

Team Rice

Tony Gonzalez

Team Sanders

Jason Witten

Team Sanders

Jordan Cameron

Team Rice

Joe Thomas

Team Sanders

Duane Brown

Team Rice

Tyron Smith

Team Sanders

Trent Williams

Team Sanders

Branden Albert

Team Rice

Jordan Gross

Team Rice

Robert Quinn (Captain)

Team Sanders

J.J. Watt (Captain)

Team Rice

Cam Jordan

Team Sanders

Greg Hardy

Team Rice

Cameron Wake

Team Sanders

Mario Williams

Team Rice

Robert Mathis

Team Rice

Justin Houston

Team Sanders

Tamba Hali

Team Sanders

Terrell Suggs

Team Sanders

Brian Orakpo

Team Rice

John Abraham

Team Sanders

Luke Kuechly

Team Rice

Vontaze Burfict

Team Rice

Derrick Johnson

Team Sanders

Paul Posluszny

Team Sanders

Patrick Peterson

Team Sanders

Darrelle Revis

Team Rice

Brandon Flowers

Team Sanders

Brent Grimes

Team Rice

Alterraun Verner

Team Sanders

Tim Jennings

Team Rice

Joe Haden

Team Rice

Antonio Cromartie

Team Sanders

Eric Berry

Team Rice

Eric Reid

Team Rice

Jairus Byrd

Team Sanders

Eric Weddle

Team Sanders

T.J. Ward

Team Rice

Antrel Rolle

Team Sanders

Justin Tucker

Team Rice

Stephen Gostkowski

Team Rice

Dexter McCluster

Team Sanders

Cordarrelle Patterson

So, unless the NFL decides to throw any other wrenches into the new Pro Bowl format, these should be the final rosters for Team Rice and Team Sanders. Luckily, both of the St. Louis Rams’ representatives are on the same squad, so Rams Nation can whole-heartedly be cheering for Team Rice this coming Sunday.