Seahawks are braced to be ‘snubbed’ from Pro Bowl

RENTON – It’s impossible to dismiss the Seahawks’ success. They’ve won 11 or more games in three successive seasons now, and each of the past three teams have been the buzzsaw no one wants to face.

Being recognized, though? That can be a little bit more of a challenge when it comes to postseason awards or Pro Bowl honors, which will be announced by the league on Tuesday night at 5 p.m.

“It’s kind of frustrating because you sometimes feel like your teammates are getting punished for being on a good team,” cornerback Richard Sherman said.

Before you dismiss that as an overstatement, consider that Sherman has been named to the Pro Bowl just once in his first three years of his career. The Seahawks have never had more than six players chosen for the Pro Bowl in any season since Pete Carroll became coach, and never more than three players from the defense.

The collective success makes it more difficult to earn individual honors, according to Sherman.

“Your linebackers are getting punished for not having a D-line that allows them to make 130, 140 tackles,” Sherman said. “Your D-line is being punished because everybody’s not going to get 10 sacks or one guy is not going to get 14, 15 sacks. That’s difficult to get on a team like this.”

Linebacker K.J. Wright is a candidate this year.

So is Bobby Wagner, though he missed five games with a foot injury, and defensive lineman Michael Bennett may have had the best season of anyone on Seattle’s defense though individual numbers won’t show it.

“We play team football,” Bennett said. “We don’t really get into the numbers every week. We just go out there and line up and play the way we are.”

Of course, the Seahawks would prefer if no one played in the Pro Bowl. The Super Bowl participants, after all, aren’t eligible to play in the game, which will be held the weekend before the Super Bowl. The honor, however, would be nice.

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