NFL Pro Bowl: Full highlights

The defense for Team Irvin stepped up as NaVorro Bowan intercepted Taylor on the very first play of the drive for Team Rice. Bennett won the defensive MVP and Wilson won the offensive MVP award.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) of Team Rice catches a pass while being defended by Minnesota Vikings outside linebacker Anthony Barr (55) of Team Irvin in the second quarter of the NFL Pro Bowl football game, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Honolulu. Walker caught three passes for 80 yards and a score, while Hopkins added 71 yards and a touchdown on three catches from the quarterbacks of Team Irvin.

It wasn’t all bad for Taylor, though; he completed 8-of-14 passes for 120 yards, carried twice for 15 yards, and threw this pretty 31-yard touchdown pass to Jarvis Landry of the Miami Dolphins for the final score of the game.

The league first tried to make changes in 2010, when the NFL moved the Pro Bowl from the week following the Super Bowl to the week prior, with all players chosen from the two Super Bowl teams exempted from the game. Bridgewater also threw Team Irvin’s lone interception of the evening when he was intercepted by rookie Marcus Peters in the first quarter.

Smith ended up with three tackles and an interception. Team Irvin won the game comfortably, 49-27.

A trio of Vikings helped lead their team to a win in the Pro Bowl on Sunday in Hawaii. Bengals running back Cedric Peerman converted a fourth-and-2 with a 6-yard run.

Bridgewater then went deep midway in the third quarter and connected with Jacksonville wide receiver Allen Robinson on a 50-yard scoring strike.

Rams running back Todd Gurley (30) celebrates after his touchdown catch in the second quarter action.

Down 14 at the half, Team Rice took the opening kickoff of the third quarter and drove for a touchdown, with Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin running it in from 3 yards out for the score.

Long is the only member of the Bears who reached the game this year.

Barr, a second-year linebacker from UCLA, finished with a pair of tackles for Team Irvin.

But the quarterback who led the Seahawks to the Super Bowl the past two seasons, winning once and coming up short against New England previous year, admitted to a TV interviewer in the second half that “obviously it sucks to not be in the Super Bowl”.