Tua Tagovailoa continues to lead Pro Bowl Games voting

Tua Tagovailoa continues to lead Pro Bowl Games voting

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa continues to lead the fan voting for the NFL’s Pro Bowl Games, the league announced on Wednesday afternoon.

The NFL’s second update on fan voting shows Tagovailoa leading all players with 129,783 votes. The former Alabama All-American has 29,775 more votes than No. 2 Christian McCaffrey. The San Francisco 49ers running back is the only other player with more than 100,000 votes.

As they were in last week’s first voting update, two other players with Alabama football roots are position leaders in the fan balloting for the Pro Bowl Games:

· Reed Blankenship (West Limestone) of the Philadelphia Eagles is out front in the voting at NFC strong safety.

· Tyreek Hill (West Alabama) leads the voting at AFC wide receiver. The NFL released the totals for the top five vote-getters, and Hill had 87,355 at No. 4.

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Tagovailoa led the fan voting for the Pro Bowl Games last year with 306,861 votes. But when the NFL announced the selections for the teams, the AFC quarterbacks were the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen and Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow.

The selections made by fans, players and coaches count one-third apiece toward determining the Pro Bowl rosters for the AFC and NFC teams.

The ballot for this season’s Pro Bowl Games includes 81 players for Alabama high schools and colleges.

Fans can vote online for their Pro Bowl favorites through Dec. 25.

Fans also can vote via X (formerly Twitter) by tweeting the first and last names of a player, tagging the player’s Twitter handle or creating a hashtag from the player’s first and last names. All three methods must include “#ProBowlVote.” On Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, each social-media vote counts as two.

NFL players and coaches will make their Pro Bowl selections on Dec. 29.

Last season, the NFL eliminated the Pro Bowl game and replaced it with the Pro Bowl Games, a skills competition and flag-football contest for the selected players.

The 7-on-7 flag football game featuring the Pro Bowl players will be held on Feb. 4 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, as the culmination of a multi-day AFC vs. NFC competition in which all-stars will demonstrate their football and non-football skills in a variety of competitions.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.