NFL ends Pro Bowl game, opts for skill competitions and flag football

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The NFL will no longer host a Pro Bowl game at the end of the regular season each year.

Instead, the league will replace the event with "The Pro Bowl Games" and will feature AFC and NFC players showcasing their football and non-football skills in a series of challenges over the course of several days in February, including a flag football game. 

The first iteration of the event will take place in Las Vegas in February with the flag football game taking place at Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 5.

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Travis Kelce, #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs and AFC, is interviewed on a sideline during the 2022 NFL Pro Bowl against the NFC at Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 06, 2022 in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"The Pro Bowl is something that we’ve been looking at for a while, really continuing to evolve," NFL executive Peter O’Reilly told The Associated Press on Monday. "Coming out of last year’s game, we really made the decision based on a lot of internal conversations, getting feedback from GMs and coaches, getting a lot of feedback from players. We think there’s a real opportunity to do something wholly different here and move away from the traditional tackle football game. We decided the goal is to celebrate 88 of the biggest stars in the NFL in a really positive, fun, yet competitive way.

"The feedback very directly from guys who had been in the Pro Bowl recently was to keep the construct of the week, make sure you’re having that multi-day element. It was overwhelmingly positive both from players as well as from clubs."

Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions will also have a hand in the programming for the event