This probably shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise, but it still stinks. The voting results are in for the 2019 AP All-Pro teams of 2020 and not a single vote was cast for a single Miami Dolphin. The AP team is decided by a collection of 50 voters who submit their ballots at the end of the season. The highest votes receive 1st-team honors, where the runner ups are placed on the 2nd-team.
The only glaring snub from the 2019 Miami Dolphins is wide receiver DeVante Parker, whose season ended with a bang as he hung up triple digit receiving yards on cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Gilmore, for the record, was an unanimous 1st-team All-Pro — he received 50 votes.
And yet the ballot saw 6 wide receivers receive at least one vote: 1st-team receivers Michael Thomas (New Orleans) and DeAndre Hopkins (Houston), 2nd-team receivers Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay) and Julio Jones (Atlanta) and two others — Detroit’s Kenny Golladay and New England’s Julian Edelman each received one vote apiece.
For the record, Parker finished the year 5th in the NFL in receiving yards (more than Hopkins, Golladay and Edelman) and tied for 4th in touchdowns (tied with Godwin/Thomas and more than Hopkins and Edelman). Yet Parker couldn’t garner a single vote? Not even for the “Flex” position on all 50 ballots?
Okay. Between the Pro Bowl snub and not a single All-Pro vote — especially relative to some of those who did receive votes — Parker has got a bone to pick with NFL media. Here’s hoping it creates a chip on his shoulder and an even bigger 2020 season.
