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Two Steelers Selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl Squad

Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and safety Troy Polamalu have been selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl team, announced tonight by the NFL. The Steelers are sending multiple players to the Pro Bowl for the 13th straight season and for the 22nd time in the last 25 seasons.

The Pro Bowl will be played Sunday, January 26, 2014, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, and will be televised live on NBC at 7 p.m. (ET). For the first time ever, the Pro Bowl is "unconferenced," so players were selected without regard to conference by a combined voting of fans, players and coaches.

This year, players will be assigned to teams by a Pro Bowl Draft. Two NFL.com fantasy football champions, the top two leading vote-getters, and Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders will select the teams in the draft process.

Brown, who was selected as both a wide receiver and punt returner but will be 'drafted' as a wide receiver, will participate in the Pro Bowl for the second time of his career (following the 2011 season). He has already established career highs in receptions (101), receiving yards (1,412) and receiving touchdowns (8) this season. Brown recently became just the second receiver in team history to record 100 receptions in a single season, and his 1,412 receiving yards are a team record for a single season. He was named 2013 Steelers' Most Valuable Player earlier this week for the second time in his career (2011). 

Polamalu has earned his eighth Pro Bowl selection (following the 2004-08 and 2010-11 seasons). He recorded his 32nd career interception earlier this season to put him in a tie for seventh place on the team's all-time interceptions list. Polamalu also recorded his fifth career defensive touchdown, which is tied for second place on the team's all-time defensive touchdowns list. He has also established a career high with five forced fumbles on the year. For his Week 12 performance at Cleveland, Polamalu was named AFC Defensive Player of the Week.



A HISTORY OF STEELERS PRO BOWL RECEIVERS

PlayerYearGPNo.Yds.Avg.TDs
Jack McClairen 1957 12 46 630 13.7 2
Jimmy Orr 1959 12 35 604 17.3 5
Buddy Dial 1961 14 53 1,047 19.8 12
Gary Ballman 1964 13 47 935 19.9 7
Gary Ballman 1965 14 40 859 21.5 5
Roy Jefferson 1968 14 58 1,074 18.5 11
Roy Jefferson 1969 114 67 1,079 16.1 9
Ron Shanklin 1973 13 30 711 23.7 10
Lynn Swann 1975 14 49 781 15.9 11
Lynn Swann 1977 14 50 789 15.8 7
Lynn Swann 1978 16 61 880 14.4 11
John Stallworth 1979 16 70 1,183 16.9 8
John Stallworth 1982 9 27 441 16.3 7
John Stallworth 1984 16 80 1,395 17.4 11
Louis Lipps 1985 16 59 1,134 19.2 12
Yancey Thigpen 1995 16 85 1,307 15.4 5
Yancey Thigpen 1997 16 79 1,398 17.7 7
Hines Ward 2001 16 94 1,003 10.7 4
Hines Ward 2002 16 112 1,329 11.9 12
Hines Ward 2003 16 95 1,163 12.2 10
Hines Ward 2004 16 80 1,004 12.6 4
Mike Wallace 2011 16 72 1,193 16.6 8
Antonio Brown 2013 15 101 1,412 14.0 8

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