10 49ers Who Should Make the NFC Pro Bowl Roster

Six Pro Bowlers normally would be quite an honor for an NFL team, but not the 49ers.

Grant Cohn | Dec 20, 2022

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The NFL will announce the Pro Bowl rosters this Wednesday at 5:00, and at least six 49ers should make it, considering they led their positions in fan votes. Here are those six 49ers:

Christian McCaffrey, Kyle Juszczyk, Trent Williams, George Kittle, Nick Bosa and Fred Warner.

Six Pro Bowlers normally would be quite an honor for an NFL team, but not the 49ers. This team has at least 10 players that deserve Pro Bowl selections. Here are four more 49ers who should make it and could make it once the league counts the votes from the players and coaches.

Linebacker Dre Greenlaw

The No. 1 defense in the league has to have more than just two Pro Bowlers, and Greenlaw is the 49ers' leading tackler. He also is tied for the team lead in forced fumbles and fumble recoveries. He arguably is the 49ers' best linebacker -- he just doesn't have the name recognition Fred Warner has.

Safety Talanoa Hufanga

He has intercepted four passes this season -- only four players have intercepted more -- and has allowed a passer rating of just 63.5. He also has 8 pass breakups, 5 tackles for loss and one touchdown all in his first season as a starter. He is the biggest playmaker in the 49ers' back seven

Cornerback Charvarius Ward

The 49ers' No. 1 cornerback has given up a measly 6.7 yards per target and broken up a team-high 11 passes.

Safety/nickelback Jimmie Ward

The 49ers' starting free safety last season missed the first five games of this season due to injury, switched to nickelback midseason. And during the 49ers' current seven-game win-streak, he has allowed a passer rating of just 61.1. He's playing out of position and performing better than ever. So even though he missed five games, he deserves his first Pro Bowl selection. He's overdue.

Published Dec 20, 2022

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.