All-Pros

Gilchrist organized all 22 African American All-Pros to approach AFL commissioner Joe Foss and make clear that unless the game was moved, they wouldn't be playing.

Dave Zirin: "I'm a Negro Who Speak Up." Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist Dave Zirin 2011

Gilchrist organized all 22 African American All-Pros to approach AFL commissioner Joe Foss and make clear that unless the game was moved, they wouldn't be playing.

Dave Zirin: "I'm a Negro Who Speak Up." Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist Dave Zirin 2011

Even though I feel like Ndamukong Suh and Eric Berry will be All-Pros, the reality is their positions (DT and S) don't have as much of an impact on the game as the quarterback does.

It's a QB league 2010

It's a practice that ideally would be left for the All-Pros like Rice and Smith.

Danny Groner: Isaac Bruce and Others Return Home to Retire 2010

Still, losing the other All-Pros led to 4-12 last year.

Thanks for the memories, Mike Sinfonian 2007

Still, losing the other All-Pros led to 4-12 last year.

Archive 2007-08-05 Sinfonian 2007

The spigot opened more than 30 years ago, and all manner of high school All-Americans, college All-Americans, and NFL All-Pros and Hall of Famers started to pour from that coastal region of Virginia called Tidewater.

USATODAY.com - Tidewater area awash with football talent 2002

Collins look like All-Pros at various points this season.

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

A player has made the team unanimously since 2004, including one of this year's All-Pros

SI.com 2011

Or maybe he was the perfect push-button coordinator to call vanilla schemes and let newcomers like Nnamdi Asomugha and Jason Babin do the things that made them All-Pros.

NYT > Home Page By MIKE TANIER 2011