The National Football League today announced that Tampa Bay Buccaneers tackle Tristan Wirfs and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. were named to the 2026 Pro Bowl Games. The nod marks the second career Pro Bowl selection for Winfield Jr. (2021), while Wirfs has now earned five consecutive trips (2021-25) in just six NFL seasons. Both players were members of General Manager Jason Licht’s 2020 draft class. Wirfs, […]
The National Football League today announced that Tampa Bay Buccaneers tackle Tristan Wirfs and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. were named to the 2026 Pro Bowl Games. The nod marks the second career Pro Bowl selection for Winfield Jr. (2021), while Wirfs has now earned five consecutive trips (2021-25) in just six NFL seasons. Both players were members of General Manager Jason Licht’s 2020 draft class.
Wirfs, who was selected as a starter, earned his fifth Pro Bowl selection – the third-most by an offensive player in franchise history, trailing only Mike Alstott and Mike Evans (six each). Wirfs and Alstott are Tampa Bay’s lone offensive players to have earned five-or-more consecutive trips to the Pro Bowl, and Wirfs became the first Buccaneers player on either side of the ball to accomplish this feat since Gerald McCoy made six consecutive Pro Bowls from 2012-17.
Wrapping up his sixth NFL season, Wirfs has garnered five Pro Bowl selections, two Associated Press first-team All-Pro selections (2021, 2024), a second-team All-Pro selection (2022) and was a member of the PFWA All-Rookie Team (2020), in addition to starting on Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl LV Championship team in his rookie season.
In 2025, Wirfs has totaled 710 offensive snaps through Week 16, and per Pro Football Focus (PFF) metrics, has yielded just four quarterback hits and two sacks. PFF has credited Wirfs with a 92.0 offensive grade this season – the second-highest among any qualified offensive lineman. Additionally, his 91.0 run-blocking grade ranks sixth and his 84.6 pass-blocking grade ranks seventh across the NFL, per PFF. Wirfs and New York Giants tackle Andrew Thomas are the only offensive linemen to have earned an 84.0+ grade in all three categories this season through Week 16.
Since Wirfs was drafted in 2020, the Buccaneers rank second in the NFL in fewest sacks allowed per pass attempt (4.6%), in addition to allowing the third-fewest total sacks (180) during that span.
Winfield Jr., who is in his sixth NFL season, has amassed 83 tackles (four for loss), seven passes defensed, two interceptions, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, 1.0 sack and four quarterback hits over 15 games played this season. He is the only defensive back, and 1-of-3 players overall, this season with 75+ tackles, multiple interceptions, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery through Week 16.
Among safeties with 35+ defensive targets this season per the NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Winfield Jr. ranks second in lowest opponent passer rating when targeted (75.7) and seventh in hawk rate (17.9%), which measures thepercentage of targets where the nearest defender recorded either an interception or pass defensed.
Since entering the league as a second-round selection in the 2020 NFL Draft, Winfield Jr. has collected a first-team All-Pro selection (2023) and was a member of the 2020 PFWA All-Rookie Team, in addition to his two Pro Bowl honors and starting on the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl LV championship team.
Buccaneers alternates for the 2026 Pro Bowl games include cornerback Jamel Dean and quarterback Baker Mayfield.
For the first time, the 2026 Pro Bowl Games will move to Super Bowl LX Week, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The event brings the league’s top players together for an AFC vs. NFC flag football showdown, coached by Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice (NFC) and Steve Young (AFC), which will preview the elite athleticism and competition of the sport ahead of its LA28 Olympics debut.
The televised event will air live from San Francisco’s Moscone Center South Building on Tuesday, Feb. 3, which will be transformed into a dynamic flag football arena. Coverage of the Pro Bowl Games powered by Verizon will begin on ESPN starting at 6:30 p.m. ET with the flag game at 8 p.m. ET. The game will air on ESPN, Disney XD and ESPN Deportes.
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