The 49ers may not have put together a particularly splashy offseason, but they could see some improvement on their roster by way of first-time Pro Bowl berths.
San Francisco had a slew of players head to Orlando for the NFL’s All-Star game last season. Deebo Samuel, Trent Williams, Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle and Nick Bosa were all named to the initial roster. Left guard Laken Tomlinson eventually made it in as well.
While last year’s Pro Bowlers could certainly go again this season, there are seven players on this year’s roster that stand out as candidates to go to a Pro Bowl for the first time in 2022:
DT Arik Armstead
Armstead finished the 2021 season playing the best football of his career. He racked up 39 of his 54 pressures from Week 13 through the NFC championship game. In that same span he notched 8.0 of his 10.0 sacks. Armstead has always been a more effective pass rusher from the interior and this year he’ll get more chances to do so alongside an edge group that might be the best the 49ers have had over the last five years.
CB Emmanuel Moseley
The chaos of the 49ers’ secondary last year made it hard to distinguish who was good and who wasn’t in that group. Moseley was quietly putting together the best season of his career though. Quarterbacks completed 60.8 percent of their throws at Moseley, but he allowed only one touchdown and pulled down one interception with eight pass breakups per Pro Football Focus. QBs had a passer rating of 78.0 when throwing it Moseley’s way. If he finds a few more interceptions and eliminates some of the very low lows he had last year, Moseley might find his way into the conversation as one of the league’s top CBs on what should be a good 49ers defense.
WR Brandon Aiyuk
2021 was a weird year for Aiyuk. Despite a rocky start that led some to wonder if he was going down the Dante Pettis career path, Aiyuk finished the year very strong. If we extrapolate his final 11 games out over a full season, he was on pace for 73 catches, 1,128 yards and six touchdowns. Perhaps the 49ers’ rushing offense takes center stage this season and receiving numbers are deflated some. There’s also a chance Aiyuk and Trey Lance have good chemistry though and the former first-round pick soars into a Pro Bowl berth.
LB Azeez Al-Shaair
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