With Cody Parkey's addition to the Pro Bowl roster on Monday, nine Eagles have been selected to the NFL's all-star game ...
Cody Parkey's biggest kick was his game-winner against his former team, the Indianapolis Colts in Week 2
Cody Parkey set an NFL rookie record with 150 points, also the most by any kicker in Eagles history. Parkey finished second in the NFL in scoring, first in the NFC.
Cody Parkey becomes the ninth Eagle selected to go to the Pro Bowl. It's the most by any NFC team and the highest total by the Eagles since following the 2009 season
WR Jeremy Maclin will make his first Pro Bowl appearance
Maclin is replacing Denver wide reciever Demaryius Thomas on the Pro Bowl roster
Maclin posted his first 1,000-yard season as an Eagle and won the team's Ed Block Courage Award in 2014
This is Jon Dorenbos' second Pro Bowl appearance
Dorenbos was also named a member of Pro Football Focus' All-Pro Special Teams group
Dorenbos snapped all season longg for Cody Parkey, who set an NFL rookie record with 150 points in 2014
This will be Evan Mathis' second straight Pro Bowl appearance
After missing seven games with a knee injury, Mathis quickly rebounded back to Pro-Bowl form
Mathis joins offensive linemates Jason Peters and Jason Kelce on this year's Pro Bowl roster
This is Connor Barwin's first All-Pro selection
Barwin ranks fourth in the NFL and first in the NFC with 14.5 sacks
Barwin has also recorded 80 tackles and two forced fumbles on the season
This is also the first Pro Bowl appearance for Jason Kelce
Kelce played just two games in 2012 due to a knee injury, but has since rebounded in Pro Bowl style
Kelce signed a new seven-year contract wth the Eagles last offseason
This is the third Pro Bowl selection for LeSean McCoy
McCoy set the Eagles franchise rushing record in 2014, passing Wilbert Montgomery
McCoy currently has 6,693 rushing yards in 89 career games
This is Jason Peters' sixth All-Pro selection
Peters signed a new contract with the Eagles following the 20131 season that will keep him in Philadelphia through 2018
Peters has been the steady presence on an offensive line plagued by injuries in 2014
This is Darren Sproles' first All-Pro selection
Sproles has won three NFC Player of the Week Awarads in 2014 (two for special teams, one for offense)
Sproles has set a career best this season with 481 punt return yards
For the fifth time in six seasons with the Eagles, tackle Jason Peters is headed to the Pro Bowl.
The man who wears No. 71 in honor of Hall of Fame lineman Walter Jones, Peters is another step closer to seeing his bust engraved years from now in Canton, Ohio.
"I haven't thought about it," Peters said of the Hall of Fame. "I take it year by year. I'm going to work and try to be the best player I can be every year. That really hasn't hit home. I just show up and play."
The only season Peters did not make the Pro Bowl since being acquired in a trade with Buffalo in 2009 was in 2012 when he missed the entire season after rupturing his Achilles twice.
"Jason Peters is, in my opinion, the best offensive tackle in football, and he has been for some time now," said fellow Pro Bowl offensive lineman Jason Kelce. "The way he moves, the way he run blocks, the way he pass blocks, everything he does is just extraordinary. It's no shock that Jason Peters is going to another (Pro Bowl)."
Peters originally joined the NFL as a rookie free agent signing of the Buffalo Bills in 2004 as a tight end. Peters was moved to tackle and earned two Pro Bowl nods with the Bills before being traded to Philadelphia.
Jones earned nine Pro Bowl and four first-team All-Pro selections during his Hall of Fame career. Peters now has seven Pro Bowl nominations and could be in line for a third first-team All-Pro when the team is announced next month.
For more on Peters and his spectacular career, check out this *feature from earlier this season ...*
Built for speed and power, the sleek, custom-built, crash-tested Jason Peters is the ultimate achievement in high-performance left tackles.
But that's not all. What if your performance-inspired left tackle could not only turn on a dime, plow everything in its path and accelerate with ease; what if your left tackle needed no steering at all? What if it could drive itself?
Jason Peters has always been a car guy, ever since his grandfather Dallas would drive young Peters around in his variety of trucks, sports cars and whatever else was in the rotation. Peters would spend hours sitting around just watching his grandfather tinkering under the hood, waiting for the day when Jason too would have his own sprawling collection.
Seven Pro Bowl seasons and a few highly paid contracts later and Peters has his fair share of toys – a '68 Chevelle, a '72 Oldsmobile, etc. But the road traveled by Peters to this point has been filled with unexpected detours, the occasionally frustrating traffic jam and an accident that some thought would put Peters in the shop for good.
Growing up in Queen City, Texas, a town of less than 2,000 on the eastern Texas border with Arkansas, Peters was always the best athlete for miles around. A standout basketball player who says his game best compares to Kevin Love, Peters still insists that he would have gone straight to the NBA from high school if only he had sprouted four or five more inches from his 6-foot-4 frame. Instead, after playing tight end, defensive end and kicker in high school, Peters went on to Arkansas as one of the nation's highest-rated recruits.
After switching from defensive end to tight end during his freshman year, Peters decided to declare for the NFL Draft after three seasons during which he recorded a total of 27 catches for 288 yards and four touchdowns. Despite a dazzling workout at the NFL Scouting Combine during which he ran a 4.93-second 40-yard dash at 328 pounds, Peters went undrafted. He then landed in Buffalo as an undrafted free agent, only because, as recalled by then-Bills general manager and current senior football advisor for the Eagles Tom Donahoe, Peters shared the same agent as a different undrafted rookie target (cornerback Jabari Greer).
Peters, of course, would prove himself to be no charity case. So rare are athletes with his combination of size and athleticism that the Bills kept Peters even though he didn't have a position. As a rookie, Peters was promoted from the practice squad and tasked with contributing only on special teams, where he would stand out as a wedge buster on coverage units and contribute a blocked punt and touchdown return. Click here to continue reading what drives Jason Peters.
