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Instant Analysis of the 49ers' Pro Bowl Selections and Snubs

Poor Dre Greenlaw.
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Instant Analysis of the 49ers' Pro Bowl Selections and Snubs
Instant Analysis of the 49ers' Pro Bowl Selections and Snubs

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The NFL just released the rosters for the upcoming Pro Bowl, and the following six 49ers made it: Nick Bosa, Talanoa Hufanga, Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle, Fred Warner and Trent Williams.

In addition, the following 49ers were selected as NFC Pro Bowl alternates: Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel, Charvarius Ward, Jake Brendel, Robbie Gould, Mitch Wishnowsky and Ray-Ray McCloud.

Here's my instant analysis of these selections:

1. Good for Talanoa Hufanga, who made the Pro Bowl in his first season as a starter. Plus, he's one of only three safeties who made the NFC team along with Quadre Diggs and Budda Baker. That's heady stuff.

2. Christian McCaffrey should be more than a mere alternate -- he should have made the team over Cowboys running back Tony Pollard.

3. Charvarius Ward also should have made the team over Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander. Ward is just as essential to the 49ers secondary as Hufanga.

4. Jake Brendel absolutely deserves to be a Pro Bowl alternate. His peers clearly respect him, because I doubt many fans voted for him. He's a relative no-name.

5. Deebo Samuel is an alternate purely based on reputation. He has had a down season. Brandon Aiyuk should have been an alternate over him.

6. Three 49ers specialists made the team, as they should. They've been terrific all season, especially McCloud, the return man.

7. Poor Dre Greenlaw. He didn't even make the team as an alternate even though he has played better than Fred Warner this season. What a shame. Greenlaw deserves respect.

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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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