Pro Bowl special team rosters

Special teams for both AFC team and NFC team are equal to each other in number of star player. The AFC team has Joshua Cribbs from the Cleveland Browns at kick returner while the NFC has Chicago Bears wide receiver at the same position.

For the AFC team, Shane Lechler from the Oakland Raiders will be the punter, Miami Dolphins Dan Carpenter is to be placekicker, and Lechler’s teammate in Oakland will work as long snapper. San Diego Chargers wide receiver Kassim Osgood is to play as the special teamer.

For the NFC team, Andy Lee, a punter who wears No. 4 San Francisco 49ers jersey will work as the special-team punter. David Akers from the Philadelphia Eagles is to play as placekicker; Minnesota Vikings linebacker Heath Farwell is the special teamer and long snapper is Akers’ teammate’ in Philadelphia Jon Dorenbos.

Vikings WR Harvin will play Pro Bowl as a kick returner

In his first year since putting on NFL jersey, the Minnesota Vikings rookie wide receiver Percy Harvin made it to his first Pro Bowl game, and he himself becomes the Vikings’ second kick returner to make the Pro Bowl NFC team, joining Koren Robinson, who played as kick returner in NFC in 2005.

Harvin was added to the NFC roster on Monday by the NFL, and his joining made the Vikings stretch a league-high total of Pro Bowl players to nine. Harvin was added later than other Pro Bowl players because the position was taken previously by the Philadelphia Eagles DeSean Jackson, who occupied bother wide receiver and kick returner in the NFC team before the league made a decision on who could fill the spot.

Jackson received the least voting points for the kick returner spot, and the league used his team at the spot and planned to find a best player to fill the void. The player turned out to be Harvin, who returned two kickoffs for touchdowns and finished fourth in the NFL with an average of 27.5 yards per return as well as set Minnesota’s single-season franchise record for all-purpose yardage.