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SEC has Twelve Players in NFL Pro Bowl
Written by Darrell Owenby   
Thursday, 21 January 2010 10:27

peyton manningThe SEC has strong representation on the NFL Pro Bowl team.  The Pro Bowl, to be played the week before the Super Bowl on January 31st, will be the 'kick-off feature' running up to the Super Bowl.

Eleven former SEC players were selected for the Pro Bowl:
SEC East - Six Selections
Champ Bailey (Denver), Georgia
Percy Harvin (Minnesota), Florida [kick returner]
Peyton Manning (Indianapolis), Tennessee
Jason Witten (Dallas), Tennessee
Sidney Rice (Minnesota), South Carolina
Jonathan Stinchcomb (New Orleans), Georgia

SEC West - Six Selections
Le'Ron McClain (Baltimore), Alabama
Alan Faneca (NY Jets), LSU
Jay Ratliff (Dallas), Auburn
DeMeco Ryans (Houston), Alabama
Jason Peters (Philadelphia), Arkansas
Patrick Willis (San Francisco), Ole Miss

If you are a high school football player being recruited to play college football, take a long look at this list.  Why in the world would you want to play anywhere other than the SEC?

Sources:  SEC Sports, NFL

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written by Aaron T, January 21, 2010
Just out of curiosity, and because of my severe lack of a social life (Ladies, I'm single!) I decided to see how many guys from my next of the woods, aka the Big East made the two teams.

I was surprised to find that eight guys from Big East schools made the two teams:

Ray Rice, Shaun O'Hara: Rutgers
Elvis Dummervil, David Akers: Louisville
Darrelle Revis, Larry Fitzgerald: Pittsburgh
Dwight Freeney: Syracuse (by way of Bloomfield, CT. Big shout out to the Warhawks!)
Trent Cole: Cincinnati

However, what's really interesting, is that if you just look at the guys who actually played in the Big East, that number goes up:

Take out Akers and Cole, who didn't actually play Big East football (their schools were in difference conference's at that point), but add these guys:

Ed Reed, Bryant McKinnie, Andre Johnson, Reggie Wayne, Frank Gore and Ray Lewis who played at Miami when they were in the Big East, and interestingly, there are 13 guys with Big East ties playing in this year's Pro Bowl.

Anyway, I'm not trying to make any real point, other than that I found this interesting.

Also of note, there are two guys from both Central Florida (Brandon Marshall and Asante Samuel) and Kent State (Antonio Gates and Josh Cribbs).

Who knew?
To quote Captain Jack Sparrow
written by Darrell, January 21, 2010
you need a girl smilies/grin.gif Just kidding.

That is interesting. I was going to look at the Big 12, Big 11 (10), and PAC 10 to see how they compared ... but well ... just didn't do it lol.
Sidney Rice
written by Ritch, January 23, 2010
great to see Sidney having a great season. Favre just needs to keep targeting him.

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