In seasons past, two teams of NFL all-stars would be squaring off in the Pro Bowl on Sunday. But in September, the NFL scrapped the game and replaced it with the Pro Bowl Games, which will conclude on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas.

The change didn’t affect the bottom line for the players involved. Players on the winning team will receive a bonus of $84,000. Players on the losing team will get $42,000.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will square off in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12. Players on the winning team will get paid $157,000. Players on the losing team will receive $82,000.

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Those payouts are stipulated in the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players association.

While it appears winning the Pro Bowl is more lucrative than losing in the Super Bowl, that’s true when only those games are compared. The players who reached the Super Bowl have been picking up checks along the way to the NFL championship game.

The Chiefs and Eagles held the No. 1 seed on their side of the Super Bowl tournament, so they received a bye for Super Wild-Card Weekend.

But the Kansas City and Philadelphia players still received $41,500 for that round of the playoffs, the same as the six teams who played as wild-card qualifiers. For the six teams that played during the Super Wild-Card Weekend as division champions, their players received $46,500.

The players on the eight teams participating in the Divisional Playoffs, when the Chiefs and Eagles entered the postseason, received $46,500.

The players on the four teams participating in the conference championship games received $69,000 apiece.

As in the Pro Bowl Games, Super Bowl LVII includes a monetary incentive to win, although the $157,000 for winners and $82,000 for losers is a departure from the NFL’s usual twice-as-much payday for the winners still reflected in bonuses for the Pro Bowl Games.

In combined postseason money, the players on the losing team in Super Bowl LVII will get $239,000 apiece for their postseason work. A winning player will earn $314,000 as his playoff pay.

That’s in straight game checks, before taxes, and doesn’t include any incentives a player might have in his contract that reward a bonus for making the Pro Bowl or reaching the Super Bowl.

The Pro Bowl Games resume at 2 p.m. CST Sunday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. ABC, ESPN and Disney XD will televise the game.

After four events on Thursday, the AFC leads the NFC 9-3 at the Pro Bowl Games. The event concludes on Sunday with the Best Catch finale, Gridiron Gauntlet, Kick Tac Toe, Move the Chains and three flag-football games.

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The winning conference of each skill competition gets three points. The winning conference from each of the first two flag football games receives six points. The points earned by each conference entering the final flag-football game will be the starting score for that contest, and the team winning the third flag-football game will be the winner of the Pro Bowl Games.

Pro Bowl Games participants with Alabama football roots include:

· Washington Commanders defensive tackle Jonathan Allen (Alabama)

· Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs (Alabama)

· Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (Alabama)

· Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry (Alabama)

· Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill (West Alabama)

· Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey (Hoover, Alabama)

· Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs (Alabama)

· Tennessee Titans center Ben Jones (Bibb County)

· New York Jets middle linebacker C.J. Mosley (Theodore, Alabama)

· Washington Commanders defensive tackle Daron Payne (Shades Valley, Alabama)

· Washington Commanders special-teamer Jeremy Reaves (South Alabama)

· Minnesota Vikings outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith (Greenville)

· Denver Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II (Alabama)

· New York Jets defensive tackle Quinnen Williams (Wenonah, Alabama)

Move the Chains participants include Williams and Jones in the AFC and Allen and Payne in the NFC.

Playing in the flag-football games will be Jacobs, Henry, Hill, Mosley, Surtain, Humphrey, Fitzpatrick and Jones for the AFC and Smith, Diggs and Reaves for the NFC. DeMarcus Ware (Auburn High, Troy) is the defensive coordinator for the NFC.

Super Bowl LVII kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. FOX will televise the game.

Players on the active rosters from Alabama high schools and colleges who could play in the NFL championship game for the 2022 season include wide receiver Kadarius Toney (Blount) and offensive tackle Prince Tega Wanogho (Edgewood Academy, Auburn) for Kansas City and safety Reed Blankenship (West Limestone), cornerback James Bradberry (Pleasant Grove, Samford), guard Landon Dickerson (Alabama), offensive lineman Jack Driscoll (Auburn), quarterback Jalen Hurts (Alabama), cornerback Josh Jobe (Alabama), wide receiver DeVonta Smith (Alabama) and wide receiver Quez Watkins (Athens) for Philadelphia.

In addition, Eagles punter Arryn Siposs (Auburn) returned to practice on Wednesday and became eligible to be activated from injured reserve and Chiefs running back La’Mical Perine (Theodore) is eligible to be elevated from the practice squad.

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