Around the NFC North: Pro Bowlers

Not a lot of NFC Northers in the Pro Bowl this year, so this will be a quick one. Let's go through them.

Vikings

Nadie.

Bears

The Bears had four Pro-Bowlers: Kevin Byard, Joe Thuney, Nashon Wright and Drew Dalman. The four players were a microcosm of the team's improvement this year on both offense and defense.

On the offensive side, Thuney and Dalman were the backbones of the new run game, brought by Ben Johnson, and both performed about as well as you could possibly expect from first-year acquisitions. Thuney really is an incredible player, and we can only be thankful that he is already entering his age-34 season and, after a career bringing teams to the Super Bowl (Patriots and then Chiefs),…