Raiders TE Brock Bowers named AP first team All Pro

One season. One AP First Team All Pro nod. Brock Bowers’ meteoric rise to the NFL best tight end is official.


It wasn’t a great surprise. Bowers led the NFL among tight ends in receiving (1194), receptions (112), and yards after the catch (596).


Those numbers were also historic. With him breaking a 63-year-old rookie tight end receiving yards record, setting a new rookie receptions record at any position twice, and setting a new Raiders franchise receptions record at any position and any experience level.


His numbers earned made him just the fourth rookie tight end in the modern-era to be named a first team All Pro and the first since Jeremy Shockey in 2002.


Boweres simply dominates at every level. From being the top TE recruit in the nation out of Napa High School, to an All American as a true freshman at Georgia, to the first ever two-time Mackay Award winner his final two seasons there.









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