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The 2025 Pro Bowl Games was the National Football League (NFL)'s all-star game for the 2024 NFL season. This was the third year that the event consisted of skills competitions and a non-contact flag football game. The first block of skills competitions took place on January 30, 2025, around various venues in Central Florida though mainly at Nicholson Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, while the flag football game and the other events took place on February 2 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
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| Date | January 30 and February 2, 2025 | ||||||
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| Stadium | Nicholson Fieldhouse, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, and Camping World Stadium (Orlando, Florida) | ||||||
| Offensive MVP | Jared Goff (Detroit Lions) | ||||||
| Defensive MVP | Byron Murphy (Minnesota Vikings) | ||||||
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| National anthem | Presley Tennant | ||||||
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| Announcers | Scott Van Pelt (play-by-play), Dan Orlovsky, Jason Kelce (color), Marcus Spears, Laura Rutledge, and Michelle Beisner-Buck (sideline reporters) | ||||||
The NFC won both the skills events and flag football game, 20–13 and 56–50 respectively. This became the first pro bowl that a single conference outscored the other in both the skills events and the final flag football game. This also became the highest scoring Pro Bowl, breaking the record from the year before.
The NFL announced that Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, would be the site for the games after hosting it the year before. Previously, Camping World Stadium hosted the Pro Bowl from 2017 to 2020 (no game was held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).[1]
The format consisted of various skill competition events and a 7-on-7 flag football game, with the first block of events held on January 30, 2025. On February 2, the remainder of the event program took place at Camping World Stadium (the full Madden NFL 25 game aired on February 1 with clips being shown on Sunday).[2][3]
The fan voting ran between November 25 and December 23, 2024, with rosters announced on January 2, 2025.[2][4][5] Three rookies were named to the initial roster: quarterback Jayden Daniels, tight end Brock Bowers, and outside linebacker Jared Verse. Later, rookie wide receivers Brian Thomas Jr. and Malik Nabers replaced Zay Flowers and Amon-Ra St. Brown, respectively, after the latter two went down with injury. After Lamar Jackson chose not to participate, he was replaced by rookie quarterback Drake Maye.
| Position | Starter(s) | Reserve(s) | Alternates(s) |
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| Defensive end | 95 Myles Garrett, Cleveland 91 Trey Hendrickson, Cincinnati |
98 Maxx Crosby, Las Vegas[b] | 55 Danielle Hunter, Houston[a] |
| Defensive tackle | 97 Cameron Heyward, Pittsburgh 95 Chris Jones[c], Kansas City |
92 Nnamdi Madubuike, Baltimore[b] | 95 Quinnen Williams, NY Jets[a] 98 Jeffery Simmons, Tennessee[a] |
| Outside linebacker | 15 Nik Bonitto, Denver 90 T. J. Watt, Pittsburgh[b] |
52 Khalil Mack, LA Chargers[b] | 53 Kyle Van Noy, Baltimore[a] 97 Joey Bosa, LA Chargers[a] |
| Inside / middle linebacker | 0 Roquan Smith, Baltimore[b] | 44 Zaire Franklin, Indianapolis | 6 Patrick Queen, Pittsburgh[a] |
| Cornerback | 24 Derek Stingley Jr., Houston 2 Patrick Surtain II, Denver |
44 Marlon Humphrey, Baltimore 21 Denzel Ward, Cleveland |
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| Free safety | 39 Minkah Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh | ||
| Strong safety | 14 Kyle Hamilton, Baltimore | 3 Derwin James, LA Chargers |
| Position | Starter | Alternate(s) |
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| Long snapper | 46 Ross Matiscik, Jacksonville | |
| Punter | 9 Logan Cooke, Jacksonville | |
| Placekicker | 9 Chris Boswell, Pittsburgh | |
| Return specialist | 19 Marvin Mims, Denver | |
| Special teams | 41 Brenden Schooler, New England[b] | 28 Miles Killebrew, Pittsburgh[a] |
| Position | Starter(s) | Reserve(s) | Alternate(s) |
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| Defensive end | 97 Nick Bosa, San Francisco 11 Micah Parsons, Dallas |
52 Rashan Gary, Green Bay | |
| Defensive tackle | 97 Dexter Lawrence, NY Giants 98 Jalen Carter, Philadelphia[c] |
50 Vita Vea, Tampa Bay | 99 Leonard Williams, Seattle[a] |
| Outside linebacker | 58 Jonathan Greenard, Minnesota 43 Andrew Van Ginkel, Minnesota |
8 Jared Verse, LA Rams | |
| Inside / middle linebacker | 54 Fred Warner, San Francisco | 53 Zack Baun, Philadelphia[c] | 54 Bobby Wagner, Washington[a] |
| Cornerback | 1 Jaylon Johnson, Chicago 7 Byron Murphy Jr., Minnesota |
8 Jaycee Horn, Carolina 21 Devon Witherspoon, Seattle |
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| Free safety | 29 Xavier McKinney, Green Bay | ||
| Strong safety | 3 Budda Baker, Arizona | 32 Brian Branch, Detroit |
| Position | Starter | Alternate(s) |
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| Long snapper | 42 Andrew DePaola, Minnesota | |
| Punter | 3 Jack Fox, Detroit | |
| Placekicker | 17 Brandon Aubrey, Dallas | |
| Return specialist | 9 KaVontae Turpin, Dallas | |
| Special teams | 12 KhaDarel Hodge, Atlanta |
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ESPN and ABC had the rights to the Pro Bowl Games. ESPN, NFL+, and ESPN+ aired the Thursday events live while ABC aired the recording of the block on the Sunday after the event (prior to Sunday's events), while ESPN, ABC, Disney XD, ESPN+, ESPN Deportes and NFL+ aired the Sunday events live.[2]
The events were held at Camping World Stadium. The first set of skills competitions were held on Thursday, January 30, 2025, and the second set were held on Sunday, February 2.[6][7]
Passing the Test was an accuracy competition in which each quarterback from both conferences attempted to hit as many targets as possible in the given time, including six stationary targets and three moving targets. After all targets had been hit, the quarterback was allowed to hit it a second time for points. Quarterbacks attempted to hit targets for points until they were out of time. To determine how much time each quarterback had, the quarterbacks were matched with a Pro Bowl partner and asked to answer five trivia questions. Each quarterback started with 40 seconds of time, being awarded an additional 10 second for each correct answer.[8]
| Order | Quarterback | Team | Trivia partner | Team | Correct answers |
Total time | Score |
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| 1 | Joe Burrow | CIN | Nico Collins | HOU | 2/5 | 60 seconds | 27 |
| 2 | Jared Goff | DET | Josh Jacobs | GB | 5/5 | 90 seconds | 44 |
| 3 | Drake Maye | NWE | Jonnu Smith | MIA | 4/5 | 80 seconds | 22 |
| 4 | Sam Darnold | MIN | Fred Warner | SF | 5/5 | 90 seconds | 39 |
| 5 | Russell Wilson | PIT | Myles Garrett | CLE | 5/5 | 90 seconds | 31 |
| 6 | Baker Mayfield | TB | Mike Evans | TB | 3/5 | 70 seconds | 27 |
Jared Goff won the event for the NFC with a score of 44, earning the NFC three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 0 |
| NFC | 3 |
The NFC won this event, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 0 |
| NFC | 6 |
The AFC won this event, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 3 |
| NFC | 6 |
The NFC won this event 8–6, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 3 |
| NFC | 9 |
Three races were held, and each was worth a single point. The NFC won the first race, the AFC won the second race, and the NFC won the third race.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 4 |
| NFC | 11 |
Two games were held, and each was worth three points. The AFC won the first game and the NFC won the second game.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 7 |
| NFC | 14 |
The first quarter of the flag football game was played. The NFC outscored the AFC 13–6.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 13 |
| NFC | 27 |
This event was held between the first quarter and the second quarter of the flag football game. The AFC won this event 1–0 in three sudden death rounds after a 13–13 regulation tie and a 3–3 overtime tie, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 16 |
| NFC | 27 |
The second quarter of the flag football game was played. The NFC outscored the AFC 12–6.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 22 |
| NFC | 39 |
This event was a Madden NFL livestream held the day before. The three points were officially added during halftime on Sunday (accompanied by a highlight reel). The AFC won the game 22–13, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 25 |
| NFC | 39 |
This event was held during halftime of the flag football game. The NFC won this event, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 25 |
| NFC | 42 |
The third quarter of the flag football game was played. The AFC outscored the NFC 14–13.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 39 |
| NFC | 55 |
This event was held between the third quarter and the fourth quarter of the flag football game. It was a best-of-three format, and the NFC won in a 2–0 sweep, earning three points.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 39 |
| NFC | 58 |
The fourth quarter of the flag football game was played. The AFC outscored the NFC 24–18.
| Conference | Score |
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| AFC | 63 |
| NFC | 76 |
In addition to the skills events, one game of flag football with four 12-minute quarters was played, with Sunday’s events being held between quarters.
| Conference | Events | 1st Quarter | Events | 2nd Quarter | Events | 3rd Quarter | Events | 4th Quarter | Final |
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| AFC | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 24 | 63 |
| NFC | 14 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 76 |
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