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Five Former Oklahoma Players Make Pro Bowl

Kyler Murray, Joe Mixon, Mark Andrews, Orlando Brown and Trent Williams make this year's all-star game in Las Vegas, and more former Sooners could join them.

John E. Hoover

Five former Oklahoma players were named to the 2022 Pro Bowl on Wednesday.

Quarterback Kyler Murray, running back Joe Mixon, tight end Mark Andrews, and offensive tackles Orlando Brown and Trent Williams were named to this year’s all-star game.

OU ties Ohio State for the most selections to this year’s Pro Bowl, which will be played at Las Vegas’ new Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 6. Players who play in the Super Bowl the following week don’t play in the Pro Bowl.

Murray recently returned from missing four straight games with injury and has helped guide the Arizona Cardinals to a 10-4 record and first-place standing in the NFC West. Murray has produced 3,309 total yards and 25 touchdowns with two games still to play this season.

It’s Mixon’s third 1,000-yard rushing season for the Cincinnati Bengals (he’s second in the NFL with 1,094 rushing yards and has scored 14 touchdowns), but it’s his first Pro Bowl selection.

For Andrews, it’s his second straight Pro Bowl selection with the Baltimore Ravens. He leads all NFL tight ends with 1,062 receiving yards (he’s the first Ravens tight end to surpass 1,000 in a season) and has 85 pass receptions this year.

Brown, in his first season with the Kansas City Chiefs after a stellar career start with the Ravens, is making his third consecutive Pro Bowl trip.

Williams, who joined the San Francisco 49ers last year after a Hall of Fame start in Washington, has been picked for his ninth consecutive Pro Bowl. Pro Football Focus reports Williams’ 98.5 grade this season leads all NFL players.

Pro Football Focus announced Wednesday that Chiefs rookie Creed Humphrey has the top blocking grade among centers in the NFL this year, so as players opt out of this year’s Pro Bowl, it’s likely Humphrey will be selected as well.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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