Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa led the fan voting for the Pro Bowl Games last year with 306,861 votes. But when the NFL announced the selections for the teams, the AFC quarterbacks were the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen and Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow.

Apparently, that outcome did not discourage the former Alabama All-American’s fans. On Wednesday, the NFL released its first update on the Pro Bowl Games fan voting, which began on Nov. 27, and Tagovailoa leads all players with 59,680 votes.

Two other players with Alabama football roots are position leaders in the fan voting for the Pro Bowl Games:

· Reed Blankenship (West Limestone) of the Philadelphia Eagles is out front in the balloting at NFC strong safety.

· Tyreek Hill (West Alabama) leads the voting at AFC wide receiver. The NFL released the totals for the top five vote-getters, and Hill had 39,928 at No. 4.

Last season, the NFL eliminated the Pro Bowl game and replaced it with the Pro Bowl Games, a skills competition and flag-football contest for the selected players. The ballot for this season’s Pro Bowl Games includes 81 players for Alabama high schools and colleges.

Fans can vote online for their Pro Bowl favorites through Dec. 25.

From Dec. 11 through Dec. 15, fans can vote via X (formerly Twitter) by tweeting the first and last names of a player, tagging the player’s Twitter handle or creating a hashtag from the player’s first and last names. All three methods must include “#ProBowlVote.” On Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, each social-media vote counts as two.

NFL players and coaches will make their Pro Bowl selections on Dec. 29.

The selections made by fans, players and coaches will count one-third apiece toward determining the Pro Bowl rosters for the AFC and NFC teams.

The 7-on-7 flag football game featuring the Pro Bowl players will be held on Feb. 4 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, as the culmination of a multi-day AFC vs. NFC competition in which all-stars will demonstrate their football and non-football skills in a variety of competitions.

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