Kevin Byard (S): This may come as a shock to many of you but Kevin Byard was named as an NFL 1st Team All Pro this year. Yes….1st team…in the NFL. One of the two best safeties in the entire league. Earl Thomas is on the 2nd team. I won’t sit here and tell you I knew much about him before seeing he got named but that’s why god invented google right? Turns out he is a local guy that played college ball at Middle Tennessee State University and has come out of absolutely nowhere to be tied for 1st in the NFL in interceptions with 8 this year (although 3 were in one game).

I did find it quite interesting that he is on the All Pro Team (voted by Associated Press) but not on the AFC Pro Bowl roster (voted by fans/coaches/players). I am now a blogger and officially part of the media so I would never accuse the press of voting simply based on a stat that isn’t always indicative of level of play (INTs). But I will say that he led the AFC in Pro Bowl FAN voting so it must have been the coaches and players that left him off the ballot…...interesting. And the Titans are 25th in the NFL in passing defense…....also interesting.

He has also made a few waves this week with this following headline grabber:

“This is a playoff game. So I don’t really care if it was Joe Montana. You know what I’m saying? I’m trying to go out there and win the game. I want to make him look like Blake Bortles if I can and try to catch a couple picks.”

I actually like this kind of attitude from players and I don’t think what he said was that salacious but obviously the internet doesn’t agree: