A soft Landing
Rams and Chargers Give the Pro Bowl a Los Angeles Sendoff
With a neighborly nod to the final NFL Pro Bowl game comes an impressive offering from the two teams that call SoFi Stadium home—the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers.
As the NFL prepares to close the book on the Pro Bowl game, Los Angeles can take a moment to recognize nine players from its two hometown franchises who earned Pro Bowl honors.
The Rams placed four players among the league’s stars: quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Puka Nacua, outside linebacker Jared Verse and outside linebacker Byron Young.
It is a group representing both sides of the football and two generations of Rams talent. Stafford, the veteran quarterback and Super Bowl champion, was joined by Nacua, whose emergence has made him one of the NFL’s premier receivers. On defense, Verse and Young gave the Rams two representatives from a young and increasingly formidable pass rush.
Their SoFi Stadium roommates did even better numerically. 
The Chargers placed five players on the Pro Bowl roster: quarterback Justin Herbert, safety Derwin James Jr., outside linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu, tackle Joe Alt and kicker Cameron Dicker.
Together, the Rams and Chargers supplied nine Pro Bowl selections—a substantial Los Angeles presence as one of the NFL’s longest-running traditions reaches the end of its life as an actual game.
And perhaps there is a little poetry in that.
The Pro Bowl game may be disappearing, but the accomplishment represented by the words “Pro Bowl selection” remains.
So, one final tip of the helmet to the old AFC-NFC gathering—and a neighborly salute to the Rams and Chargers who helped Los Angeles take its place among the NFL’s best.
The game is leaving.
The honor stays.
