NFL Pro Bowl Roster 2014: Captains and List of Available Players to Be Drafted

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The 2014 Pro Bowl rosters were announced on Friday during a special on the NFL Network. Since the usual AFC-versus-NFC format will no longer be used and a draft-style approach will now take its place, team captains were named.

The captains for this year's Pro Bowl teams are Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders. They will rotate picks during the draft that will take place on the NFL Network at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014.

Just four days later, the Pro Bowl will take place from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7 p.m. ET on Jan. 26, airing live on NBC.

Both Rice and Sanders discussed their draft strategies on the NFL Network on Friday and gave some insight as to which players they want on their respective teams:

Available players who are eligible to be drafted for each Pro Bowl team are as follows:

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Offense:

Defense:

Special Teams:

Rice and Sanders will each have an even number of players from each position at the end of the draft—that part obviously hasn't changed.

However, the new Pro Bowl draft format has brought about some different feelings from players around the league.

San Francisco 49ers senior reporter Taylor Price issued a tweet containing a comment from linebacker Patrick Willis regarding his distaste for the new style:

Other players, such as Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, are simply happy for their teammates who got the nod to play. Briggs tweeted:

There were also many Pro Bowl snubs—as there are every year—and Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports made one simple point:

Certain draft strategies must be in place due to several new rules that will be enforced during this year's contest. For example, there will be no kickoffs, each quarter will yield a two-minute warning and a change of possession after, and the game clock can stop under two minutes after a play that does not gain yardage.

Interesting.

Official rule changes for the Pro Bowl can be found on NFL.com.

With many of these new rules favoring the offensive side of the ball, it can be easily assumed that the 2014 Pro Bowl will continue to yield plenty of points.

No matter the outcome, the players that made the Pro Bowl this year will be rewarded, according to a tweet from ESPN's Adam Schefter:

For now, it's up to Sanders and Rice to draft the best possible teams. It will certainly be interesting to see how this all plays out.