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NFL's All Pro Team Snubs Nick Bosa

He recorded 15.5 sacks -- fourth most in the NFL. He had a monster season.
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NFL's All Pro Team Snubs Nick Bosa
NFL's All Pro Team Snubs Nick Bosa

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Two 49ers made the NFL's All Pro team this season, and neither one is Nick Bosa.

Deebo Samuel and Trent Williams both were named first-team All Pro, and both deserve the honor. Williams has been the best left tackle in the NFL for a decade, while Samuel emerged this season as the premier offensive weapon in football regardless of position.

But shouldn't Bosa be an All Pro, too?

He recorded 15.5 sacks -- fourth most in the NFL. He had a monster season. You could argue he's one of the best defensive players in the NFL regardless of position and the best player on the 49ers -- even better than Samuel and Wiliams.

And while it's understandable Bosa didn't make first-team All Pro (only two edge rushers made it, and both had more sacks than Bosa), shouldn't he have been second-team All Pro instead of Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby, who had eight sacks? Bosa nearly doubled his total.

"I definitely think Bosa should be there," head coach Kyle Shanahan said Friday. "There's no doubt about that, I don't think people appreciate how good Bosa is play-in and play-out. I've heard people talk about him for Comeback Player of the Year and every time they say that I can't believe he hasn't been mentioned in Defensive Player of the Year. So that was a surprise to me.”

In addition to Bosa, other 49ers who did not make the All Pro team were George Kittle, Fred Warner, Arik Armstead and Jimmie Ward.

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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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