Hurts takes Brock Purdy’s position, and Slay takes Charvarius Ward’s place. The 49ers won Sunday’s NFC Championship Game 34–31 over the Lions. Although the Pro Bowl is no longer an actual contest, the games will nonetheless take place in Orlando on Thursday and Sunday. The two Super Bowl teams’ players do not take part.

Hurts is the first quarterback from the Eagles to be selected to consecutive Pro Bowl teams since Donovan McNabb, who did so five times in a row between 2000 and 2004. Though he’s only the third Eagles quarterback to do so since 1960, he’s the sixth overall.

Pro Bowlers Adrian Burk (1954, 1955), Bobby Thomason (1953, 1955, and 1956), Norm Van Brocklin (1958–1960), and Randall Cunningham (1988–1990) were all active.

The only quarterbacks for the Eagles to make multiple Pro Bowls in their first four seasons are Hurts and McNabb.

With 38 total touchdowns—23 passing and 15 rushing—Hurts was second in the NFL despite his declining performance from the 2022 Super Bowl season.

The only quarterbacks to make the Pro Bowl in each of the previous two seasons are Hurts and Patrick Mahomes.

With the Lions, Slay was selected to his first three Pro Bowls in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2000, his rookie season with the Eagles, he was not selected; however, he has already been selected three times in a row. Being a three-time Pro Bowler, he is the fourth cornerback for the Eagles.

He becomes the fourth cornerback in Eagles history to appear in at least three Pro Bowls, following Troy Vincent, Eric Allen, and Asante Samuel. From 1999 to 2003, Vincent made four consecutive baskets; from 1991 to 1994, Allen made four consecutive baskets; and from 2008 to 2010, Samuel made three consecutive baskets.

Slay is the 16th cornerback to be selected for at least six Pro Bowls in NFL history. The only two players not inducted into the Hall of Fame are Allen, a finalist this year, and Lamar Parrish, a 1970s Bengals player. There are 13 eligible players in all.

This year, Slay has 14 pass deflections and two interceptions. Of his six Pro Bowl seasons, he has had three interceptions or less in five of them. With three or fewer interceptions, just two players have had more career Pro Bowl seasons: Champ Bailey and Patrick Peterson.

Slay has a total of 28 career interceptions: nine with the Eagles and 19 with the Lions. After becoming a full-time starter in 2014, he has racked up 28 interceptions, which ties him for sixth place in the NFL with Stephon Gilmore and Kevin Byard.

Slay, who turned 33 during the season, is the oldest cornerback in a Pro Bowl since 34-year-old Champ Bailey joined the squad in 2012.

The Eagles have also selected Jason Kelce, A.J. Brown, Landon Dickerson, Haason Reddick, D’Andre Swift, and Lane Johnson to the Pro Bowl this season. Their eight Pro Bowlers in total rank fourth in franchise history, behind the squads from 2002, 2004, and 2009. They also had eight Pro Bowl players in 2001, 2014, 1960, and the previous season.

The knee injury that Brown sustained in the regular-season finale against the Giants will prevent him from playing this weekend, according to the Eagles. Brown was also out of the picture for the wild-card game in Tampa. The Lions’ Amon-Ra St. Brown will take his spot.

The Eagles became the first NFL team to have three players in the Pro Bowl who are 33 years of age or older since the 2016 Bills, who had Lorenzo Alexander (33), Richie Incognito (33), and Kyle Williams (33). Jason Kelce (36), Lane Johnson (33), and Slay (33).

The Eagles only had three Pro Bowl players who were 33 or older once before, in 1964, when they had Sam Baker (age 35), Jim Ringo (age 33), and Pete Retzlaff (age 33).