If this is what a Pro Bowler looks like now, the Pro Bowl deserves to be laughed at.
Shedeur Sanders didn’t just sneak into the Pro Bowl. He exposed how meaningless the label has become. His season wasn’t good. It wasn’t close to good. It was sloppy, inefficient, and mistake-heavy from start to finish. Seven touchdowns. Ten interceptions. A passing offense that stalled more often than it succeeded.
That’s not bad luck. That’s who he was this season.
There’s a difference between struggling while flashing upside and simply not being good enough. Sanders showed neither consistency nor growth. The arm talent is ordinary. The decision-making is worse. When pressure arrived, so did the turnovers. When the moment demanded control, the ball went to the other team.
And yet, he’s a “Pro Bowler.”
That’s where this becomes embarrassing for the league. A quarterback who spent the season proving he couldn’t protect the football or elevate an offense is now being packaged as an all-star. Not because he earned it, but because the Pro Bowl ran out of options and needed a recognizable name to plug the hole.
Strip away the last name and this conversation doesn’t exist. A quarterback with more interceptions than touchdowns doesn’t get celebrated in a serious football environment. He gets questioned. He gets criticized. He gets told to improve or move aside.
Instead, the NFL rewarded him.
The Pro Bowl used to be about the best players at their positions. Now it’s a game of musical chairs where anyone still standing gets a badge of honor. Sanders didn’t rise to the moment. The moment collapsed to meet him.
Calling this an achievement insults every quarterback who actually performed. It insults fans who watched the games. And it insults the idea that the NFL still cares about standards.
This selection doesn’t say Shedeur Sanders arrived. It says the Pro Bowl has fallen so far that performance barely matters anymore.
At this point, being named a Pro Bowler doesn’t mean you’re elite. It means the bar is gone, the room is empty, and someone had to wear the jersey.
