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Each season for the past three years, I’ve made an attempt to project 10 new first-time Pro Bowlers. While this is a bit of a self-defeating process, given that the flawed voting methods skew heavily toward players with prior name recognition, it has not deterred me from trying to promote and correctly guess the new names that will squeeze their way into the NFL’s soon-to-be-shuttered all-star game. Last week, I introduced you to the most underrated players in each conference (AFC and NFC), and while there is some ideological crossover on this list, we’re going big-game hunting here. We know these guys. Some of them are rookies. Some of them are pushing 30. Most of them are better than they’ve been given credit for.
All of them are in unique positions to play their best football in 2022 and earn that luxurious vacation to … central Florida. Well, it’s the thought that counts.
