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Fred Taylor talks about the NFL Pro Bowl and Shedeur Sanders making the All Star team.<\/p>\n
Fred Taylor played 13 years in the National Football League<\/a> from 1998-2010. All were with the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> except the last two with the New England Patriots<\/a>, where he was yet another high-end veteran to play for Bill Belichick but wasn\u2019t on one of the teams that won a Super Bowl. <\/p>\n Randy Moss<\/a> and Chad Johnson also come to mind. <\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting about Taylor, however, is that despite rushing for 11,695 yards<\/a> (thassalot) in his career, he made just one Pro Bowl. Given the current state of the Pro Bowl (the main difference is that they moved the \u201cgame\u201d from the week after the Super Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl, meaning that no one in the Super Bowl is playing in the All Star game), you\u2019d think he\u2019d have accidentally made it on the roster a few more times just due to the attrition and apathy of others. <\/p>\n But, nope, he made just one Pro Bowl (2007) and it wasn\u2019t the time he nearly ran for 1,600 yards. To be fair, that year in 2003, Priest Holmes rushed for 27 touchdowns and Jamal Lewis broke the 2,000-yard mark. So, I get it. It\u2019s unfortunate for Taylor, but these things happen. <\/p>\n Now, the Pro Bowl has become an unmitigated joke and a mockery of itself. You know it\u2019s bad when New York Jets<\/a> quarterback Justin Fields<\/a> declined to go to the Pro Bowl this year<\/a>. Read that again. There was a world where someone thought that Justin Fields should go to any type of All Star celebration. <\/p>\n Fred Taylor has issues with the Pro Bowl<\/p>\n Oh, did I mention that Cleveland Browns<\/a> quarterback Shedeur Sanders<\/a> made the Pro Bowl this year? Find me one Browns fan that watched their games this season and thought, \u2018this guy needs to be recognized for his greatness.\u2019 <\/p>\n Taylor recently talked to Hard Rock Bet about a variety of topics, but you can bet the topic of the Pro Bowl came up.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been a topic for quite some time now,\u201d Taylor said<\/a>. \u201cEven when I played, it was always considered more of a popularity contest. The reason I say that is that there are multiple seasons where I had better numbers than a lot of the guys who were voted ahead of me.<\/p>\n \u201cThen again, I played in a smaller market, and it was heavily reliant on fan voting. So, the prestige of it died well over a decade or two ago. It\u2019s been an issue since 2001 or 2002, really.\u201d<\/p>\n His numbers absolutely prove him right. <\/p>\n Former Jaguars running back is happy Shedeur Sanders made the Pro Bowl<\/p>\n Not only should Sanders not be mentioned in the same sentence with \u2018Pro Bowl,\u2019 it\u2019s not even a certainty that he\u2019ll be starting for the Browns next year come Week 1. That\u2019s how good he was. The much-hyped rookie didn\u2019t even do enough to be secured a starting spot in 2026. <\/p>\n Hooray?<\/p>\n Still, Taylor is happy for him even though he knows the whole thing has become a clown show. <\/p>\n \u201cBut, I\u2019m happy for Shedeur,\u201d Taylor contineud. \u201cObviously, his popularity supersedes his performance, and that\u2019s not a knock on him. He was only able to play seven games for an organization that, quite honestly, hasn\u2019t been very good.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to see what Sanders does with a clean slate. He has to go in there and earn it from the onset of the year and play his way through a full NFL regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n Fred Taylor says the Pro Bowl is a complete joke<\/p>\n So, what\u2019s Taylor\u2019s conclusion on the current state of the NFL Pro Bowl?<\/p>\n \u201cBut, the Pro Bowl is somewhat of a mockery and joke,\u201d Taylor said, putting it mildly. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit watered down, too.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s turned into games now rather than a game of football. They said you can\u2019t be physical. You can\u2019t hit. So, players started to do the brother-in-law techniques. They would just show up and not take it seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s watered down the mystique of it all. But, I think across the board, no one is really entertained by it.\u201d<\/p>\n With regards to the Pro Bowl: Make. It. Stop. <\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMicah Warren<\/a> Micah Warren has been covering the NFL – and sports in general – for more than 20 years and he began writing for Heavy in 2025. His work has been featured in Yahoo!, MSN.com, Forbes, amNewYork, Off the Record, GCobb.com, Muck Rack, PR Daily, Blast Magazine and other sports and non-sports-related outlets. More about Micah Warren<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Jaguars\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Fred Taylor talks about the NFL Pro Bowl and Shedeur Sanders making the All Star team. 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