At the beginning of the announcement of the professional bowl list every year, we can't help but take stock of the "professional bowl beads", but compared to these single-season lost pearls, some players obviously have strength, but they have never been selected for the professional bowl in their entire careers. On the day of the start of the 2021 Season Professional Bowl, let's take stock of the top five stars who have never been selected for the Professional Bowl in their careers.
Reggie Bush
Despite being the heisman Prize and the top pick in the 2006 draft, Bush's career has failed as much as Mike Dietka spent all his draft deals in 1999 to get Ricky Williams, and Kim Kardashian's lace news off the court is much more than the number of times he has destroyed the city for the Saints on the field.
Although Bush's career as a running back is only in his early 5,000 yards and 36 shots in the touchdown, the meteor-like Bush has a strong ability to catch the ball and return attack, and the rookie season running back and forth with a total of 1523 yards and 9 touchdowns can be a missed professional bowl. And in 2008, he dropped 20 kicks and pushed back to advance 270 yards and a terrifying three-stroke back touchdown, which should be able to enter the professional bowl, right? As a result, the Pirates' unknown returner, Clifton Smith, had 920 yards in the kick-off and 324 yards higher than Bush, in addition to a kick-off return and a back-and-out touchdown each, and Shengsheng stole the professional bowl honor from Bush. Bush's career run-and-return total of more than 10,000 yards is the highest number of players who have never been selected for the Pro Bowl.
Julian Edelman
"Micro-Vibration Heaven" was not even selected for the Professional Bowl??? His playoff career of 118 catches and 1442 yards is second in history after Jerry Rice, and Edelman's extreme catch is even more talked about in the "greatest Super Bowl reversal of all time".
However, the professional bowl voting and selection has ended before the start of the playoffs, born in the seven-round show, Edelman's career was basically based on secret service members and returners at the beginning of his career, and most of the time slots after becoming the main force, coupled with his technical characteristics are not brush codes, and some injuries affect, Edelman's career has only three seasons of receiving thousand yards, and the entire career regular season has only 36 receiving touchdowns, and the micro-zhentian has never been selected for the professional bowl, which does not seem so surprising.
Joe Flaco
Speaking of Forty, our impression is that he is good at fighting hard battles and gambling, but the data is not beautiful, so he has never been selected for the professional bowl, right?
However, his career pass total exceeded 40,000 yards, the first twenty in history, and his career total of 227 touchdowns, the 33rd in history, these are the highest values of a player who has never been selected for the Professional Bowl. In 2014 he shot down nearly four thousand yards and 27 touchdowns, and two years later his single-season pass yards finally exceeded four thousand yards and 20 touchdowns, but still couldn't knock on the door of the Pro Bowl.
Because Flaco played for the Ravens, strong such as Brady, Manning, Big Ben, and Big River were concentrated in the American League, and the Ravens were a team that was "defensive and weak", Flaco's strength was seriously underestimated.
Markis-Colston
In the previous example of Edelman, the regular season statistics were not gorgeous enough to cause Edelman to always lose, but what about Colston, the saints' historical receiver king?
Because Colston chose to retire at the age of 32, his catches were only in the top 50 or so in history, but he had six seasons of receiving thousand yards in the first seven years of his career, and two 900+ yard seasons after the age of thirty, and Colston was extremely productive and stable in terms of statistics alone.
However, as sad as Edelman, behind them is a historic super quarterback, which will make the voting judges think that Brady/Bris is strong, that they are only blessed by the super quarterback to brush up beautiful data, so in that era of Randy Moss, Reggie Wayne, Chad Johnson, Fitzgerald, Terrell Owens, Brandon Marshall's star-studded, Colston is always forgotten. In addition, Brith is extremely good at "rain and dew", which makes the data gap between Colston and the team's second receiver not large, and the peak season data is only 1200+ yards and 11 touchdowns, and the lack of dominance of the season is also one of the reasons why Colston missed the professional bowl in his career.
Ken Riley
Although it's an unfamiliar name, his career achievements are among the greatest on this list. Riley was drafted by the Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s, never transferred to another team in his fifteen-year career, and as the greatest player in the history of the Tigers after Anthony Muñoz and Ken Anderson, he is considered by experts to have the strength of the Hall of Fame, but he did not have a single professional bowl experience in his career.
Riley started 202 games for the Tigers in fifteen years of his career, tied for the fifth highest in the league's history with 65 times in his career, and his strong interception ability made him have at least five interceptions in seven seasons of his career, even if he was close to the age of 35, he also made a total of 18 interceptions in the last three seasons of his career. In 1975, he copied 1 touchdown 6 times, was selected for the second team of the season, and lost the professional bowl; in 1976, the highest 9 times of his career, he was still selected for the second team, but still lost; until 1983, Riley was 36 years old, 8 times intercepted 2 times to attack the touchdown, and was selected for the league season first team, but still lost, Riley angrily retired!
Why can't Riley be selected? There are two reasons, first of all, Riley is in the era of the NFL from the era of rushing to the era of passing, the surge in the number of passes has led to a surge in the number of interceptions, the quarterback of that era is much more heroic than the contemporary quarterback, plus in 1978 the league introduced a more conducive to the offensive group of interference pass rules, so it is not unusual for cornerbacks to copy data in that era.
In addition, steelers famous Mel Blunt, Chief famous Emmett Thomas, Patriot raider famous Mike Haynes are all in the same era as Riley, a large number of top cornerbacks gathered in the American League itself is fiercely competitive, because only coaches and players can vote in that era, the low-key and calm Riley is not good at making friends, on the contrary, his teammate Lemar Parrish is more extroverted, which makes his career eight professional bowl honors.
In 2019, Riley, 71, said: "I've done everything I'm supposed to do, but not everything is within my control. Riley didn't make it to the Career Bowl, and it's almost impossible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and the most capable employees on the pitch are not necessarily recognized by the most colleagues.