Before Super Bowl week begins in New Orleans, the NFL will celebrate some—but not nearly all—of the best players from the 2024 regular season at the Pro Bowl Games in Orlando.
The NFL’s all-star game is entering the third year of its new format, which includes various skills competitions and culminates with a flag football game Sunday, in place of the traditional tackle football game that players did not take seriously in its final years.
Despite the change, a downward TV ratings trend has continued to follow the Pro Bowl in its various iterations:
- 2024: 5.75 million
- 2023: 6.2 million
- 2022: 6.7 million
Like last year’s game, Sunday’s contest will be simulcast across ESPN, ABC, and Disney XD at 3 p.m. ET.
Making the Team
The Manning brothers will once again serve as coaches—Peyton for the AFC and Eli for the NFC, but each squad will be missing key players.
Of course, the six players from the Eagles and five from the Chiefs who were selected won’t participate as those teams prepare for Super Bowl LIX.
In total, 27 players originally selected to the Pro Bowl rosters have been replaced (up from 22 last year), including non–Super Bowl participants like MVP front-runners Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, as well as other stars including Jayden Daniels, Derrick Henry, T.J. Watt, and Amon-Ra St. Brown.
That’s led to some interesting substitutions making the rosters, like Russell Wilson, who threw for 16 touchdowns across 11 games for the Steelers this season, and Drake Maye, the rookie quarterback who had a 3–9 record starting for the Patriots.
