The NFL lately launched the official 2025 Professional Bowl full roster on Thursday, with Jacksonville Jaguars lengthy snapper Ross Matiscik and punter Logan Cooke being the one starters chosen from Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Jaguars P Logan Cooke and LS Ross Matiscik had been named to the 2025 Professional Bowl Video games, the NFL introduced in the present day.
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With one week remaining within the 2024 common season, Cooke leads the AFC and is second within the NFL in internet yards per punt at 44.7. Moreover, his 32 punts contained in the 20-yard line place third, and his 12 punts inside the ten tie for fourth place within the AFC. In the meantime, Matiscik has two particular groups tackles, each in punt protection, and has an 81.9 Professional Soccer Focus particular groups grade, which leads AFC lengthy snappers and is second throughout the league for all lengthy snappers, per the staff. It’s the primary Professional Bowl nod for Cooke and the second consecutive choice for Matiscik.
Per the staff launch:
Matiscik, in his fifth season because the Jaguars’ lengthy snapper, was named to the Professional Bowl for a second consecutive season. Initially signed by the Jaguars as a collegiate free agent following the 2020 NFL Draft, Matiscik additionally was named a first-team All-Professional choice for the 2023 season.
Cooke, the Jaguars’ punter and longest-tenured participant, was named to the Professional Bowl for the primary time. A seventh-round choice within the 2017 NFL Draft, is averaging 49.1 yards per punt and is second within the NFL with a 44.7-yard internet common with 32 punts contained in the 20-yard-line.
The 2025 Professional Bowl video games shall be held January thirtieth – February 2nd in Orlando, Florida.
Jaguars Alternates
Moreover, rookie WR Brian Thomas Jr. was chosen as a primary alternate to the video games, with DE Josh Hines-Allen and DE Travon Walker additionally chosen as fourth and fifth alternates.
- Brian Thomas Jr. is second within the AFC in receiving yards with 1,179 and second in receiving touchdowns with 10.
- Josh Hines-Allen is tied for fifteenth within the AFC for sacks with 8.0 (and 1 fumble compelled).
- Travon Walker is tied for ninth within the AFC for sacks with 9.5 (and two fumbles compelled).
The total Professional Bowl Roster is beneath:
Brian Thomas Jr. snubbed
The beneath receivers had been chosen over Brian Thomas Jr:
- Ja’Marr Chase: leads the AFC in receiving yards with 1,612 and first in receiving touchdowns with 16. This was a no brainer choice, in my view.
- Nico Collins: tenth within the AFC in receiving yards with 968 and tied for thirteenth in receiving touchdowns with 6. Nonetheless, Collins performed in simply 11 video games as a consequence of harm and is second within the AFC in receiving yards per recreation at 88.0. Collins’ choice would appear to have advantage, per the tape and his per-game stats.
- Zay Flowers: seventh within the AFC in receiving yards with 1,047 and tied for twenty seventh in receiving touchdowns with 4 whereas enjoying in all 16 video games. This choice is head-scratching.
- Jerry Jeudy: third within the AFC in receiving yards with 1,166, 13 yards behind Thomas Jr. Nonetheless, he’s additionally tied for twenty seventh in receiving touchdowns with 4 whereas enjoying in all 16 video games. This choice can be head scratching.
There may be merely no world the place Brian Thomas Jr. shouldn’t have been a Professional Bowl starter in entrance of Zay Flowers and Jerry Jeudy. The rookie was sadly, clearly snubbed.
Jaguars Professional Bowlers by 12 months (final 10 years)
- 2015: WR Allen Robinson
- 2016: N/A
- 2017: DE Calais Campbell, DE Yannick Ngakoue, DT Malik Jackson, CB Jalen Ramsey, CB A.J. Bouye, LB Telvin Smith
- 2018: DE Calais Campbell, CB Jalen Ramsey
- 2019: DE Calais Campbell, CB Jalen Ramsey, OLB Josh Allen, WR D.J. Chark
- 2020: N/A
- 2021: N/A
- 2022: QB Trevor Lawrence, RS Jamal Agnew
- 2023: OLB Josh Allen, LS Ross Matiscik
- 2024: LS Ross Matiscik, P Logan Cooke