QBs Tyler Huntley, Trevor Lawrence added to Professional Bowl rosters

The Baltimore Ravens introduced on Tuesday that they are sending a quarterback to the Professional Bowl.

No, it isn’t Lamar Jackson. It is — shock — Tyler Huntley.

A fourth alternate, Huntley was added to exchange Josh Allen (elbow harm), changing into some of the unlikely members ever within the Professional Bowl.

Huntley threw two landing passes this season, the fewest by far for a quarterback chosen to the Professional Bowl for the reason that 1970 merger, based on ESPN Stats & Data. The earlier low was six landing passes by the Philadelphia Eagles‘ Mike Boryla in 1975. In filling in for the injured Jackson for six video games, Huntley handed for a complete of 658 yards, which ranked forty eighth within the NFL this season.

When the preliminary Professional Bowl rosters had been introduced in December, Patrick Mahomes was named the starter and Allen and Joe Burrow had been chosen as backups. The alternates had been: Tua Tagovailoa (first), Justin Herbert (second) and Jackson (third).

Mahomes cannot attend the Professional Bowl as a result of the Kansas City Chiefs are taking part in within the Tremendous Bowl. 4 different quarterbacks are unable to play due to harm: Allen (elbow), Tagovailoa (concussion), Herbert (shoulder) and Jackson (knee).

All of those banged-up quarterbacks opened a spot for Huntley, who struggled in throwing two touchdowns and three interceptions this season. Huntley turns into the primary quarterback since Vince Younger in 2006 to make the Professional Bowl after throwing extra interceptions than touchdowns.

The opposite quarterback added to the Professional Bowl roster on Tuesday was the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ Trevor Lawrence, who takes Mahomes’ spot. Lawrence rebounded from a tough rookie season and accomplished 67.3% of his passes for 4,113 yards and 25 touchdowns with eight interceptions. He surged within the second half of the season, throwing 15 landing passes and solely two interceptions in Weeks 9-18.

Lawrence led the Jaguars to come-from-behind victories over the Ravens, Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers. He additionally rebounded from a fumble with lower than two minutes to play to steer the Jaguars to a game-tying area objective as time expired in regulation in opposition to the Dallas Cowboys.

Lawrence threw 4 interceptions within the first half of the Wild Card playoff recreation in opposition to the Chargers, however then threw 4 landing passes to rally the Jaguars from a 27-0 deficit. The Jaguars gained 31-30 on Riley Patterson’s 36-yard area objective as time expired.

This marks the primary yr that the NFL is changing the Professional Bowl with weeklong expertise competitions and a flag soccer recreation. The brand new occasion will substitute the full-contact showcase that began in 1951.

The “Professional Bowl Video games” are being held in Las Vegas this week. The flag soccer recreation will happen at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday.