Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner will not play in Sunday’s Pro Bowl to rest an ailing knee, coach Pete Carroll confirmed Tuesday in an interview with the NFL Network.
But Carroll said Wagner does not need surgery.
“He’s okay,” Carroll said of Wagner, Seattle’s middle linebacker since 2012. “He had something really he didn’t even know he had, found it in the exit interviews that he has a little problem with his knee. He’s just going to rest up. He doesn’t have to do anything for it but he needs to miss this game.”
Wagner was one of two Seattle players named to the initial NFC team, the other being quarterback Russell Wilson.