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Four 49ers Selected to the Pro Bowl, Four More Selected as Alternates

The 49ers' roster simply isn't dominant anymore.

Grant Cohn

Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) celebrates after a play during the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) celebrates after a play during the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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The 49ers' roster simply isn't dominant anymore.

This year, only four 49ers were selected to the Pro Bowl: George Kittle, Fred Warner, Nick Bosa and Kyle Juszczyk. In addition, Deommodore Lenoir, Brock Purdy, Leonard Floyd and Trent Williams were selected as alternates. Meaning they can go to the Pro Bowl only if someone else chooses to stay home.

Last year, nine 49ers made the Pro Bowl and 12 more made it as alternates. A whopping 21 of their 25 starters were Pro Bowlers or Pro Bowl alternates. In that sense, the 2023 49ers might have been the most talented team to not win a Super Bowl. What a distinction.

This year, the 49ers are 6-10. So they don't deserve lots of Pro Bowl selections.

George Kittle certainly deserves his selection -- he's the best tight end in the NFL.

Nick Bosa and Fred Warner probably made the Pro Bowl based on reputation more than actual performance this season, but both are still very good players.

Kyle Juszczyk made the Pro Bowl because he's the only fullback anyone has heard of.

Trent Williams made it as an alternate based on reputation -- he played in only 10 games.

Brock Purdy's selection as an alternate was generous.

If anyone got snubbed, it's Deommodore Lenoir, who was selected as an alternate but has an argument that he should be a full-fledged Pro Bowl nickelback. He gave up a passer rating of just 71.4 -- third-lowest in the league among corners who were targeted at least 75 times. Plus he gave up just 5.6 yards per target. He was a shutdown corner.

The 49ers desperately need to add more top-end talent this offseason. Their core is beginning to fade.

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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.

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