Peyton Manning Will Skip Pro Bowl Due To Thigh Injury

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — As Peyton Manning ponders his football future, he’s resolved one thing: He won’t play in a Pro Bowl subsequent weekend in Glendale, Arizona.

Manning pronounced his right thigh damage hasn’t gotten many improved in a week given a Denver Broncos were bounced from a playoffs by Indianapolis.

The five-time NFL MVP extended his QB record with his 14th Pro Bowl preference this season, restraining core Bruce Matthews and parsimonious finish Tony Gonzalez for a many in NFL history.

Manning calls it “a good honor” to be comparison to a diversion and he’s “always taken a requirement to play in it really seriously.”

“I’ve believed that, if healthy, it’s a player’s shortcoming to play in a diversion since of what it means to be voted in by your peers and a fans,” Manning said. “I’m unhappy that I’m usually not healthy adequate this year to be partial of it. It’s going to be tough not being down there with a other guys, yet it hasn’t had adequate time to heal.”

The NFL was sensitive of Manning’s preference Sunday.

Manning was harmed late in a initial half of a 22-10 win during San Diego on Dec. 14 and missed a handful of snaps to get diagnosis usually before halftime. He returned to play a whole second half and didn’t skip any some-more time with a injury.

It clearly influenced his play, however, culminating with 8 overthrows in Denver’s 24-13 detriment to a Colts final weekend. He also had an incompletion into parsimonious coverage on a third-and-5 play in that he bypassed a run even yet he had a 20-yard opening between him and any defender.

Manning blamed a thigh damage on dehydration from a nasty influenza bug a night before a game.

This is a initial time Manning is skipping a league’s annual all-star diversion for a reason other than scheming for an arriving Super Bowl. He missed it in 2010 with a Colts and again in 2014 with a Broncos. He played in a 2007 all-star diversion a week after winning his usually Super Bowl title.

Manning finished second in a joining this year with 39 touchdown passes and was in a top-5 with 4,727 flitting yards and a 101.5 passer rating. But he faded down a widen when he was worried by both a thigh damage and opponents clogging underneath channel routes.

Manning was one of a league-high 10 Broncos named to a Pro Bowl, 5 on any side of a ball. With such a star-studded roster, a Broncos had a “Super Bowl or bust” genius as they sought to lapse to a pretension diversion and atone for final year’s 35-point detriment to a Seahawks.

Their prosaic opening in losing 24-13 to a Colts final weekend rocked a classification and led to a separate with manager John Fox, who was hired Friday as Marc Trestman’s deputy in Chicago.

That detriment also led Manning to reassess his future. After observant in Dec that he designed to lapse for an 18th deteriorate in a NFL and fourth in Denver, Manning pronounced after a diversion that he was uncertain about returning or retiring.

Manning, who turns 39 in March, has dual years and $38 million left on his five-year contract.

GM John Elway met with Manning on Monday and asked him not to make a unreasonable decision. Elway pronounced he’d check in with Manning during his hunt for a new conduct manager yet didn’t need a preference from his quarterback for a month or so.

Elway’s hunt for Fox’s deputy took him and group boss Joe Ellis to Houston on Sunday along with other Broncos officials to accommodate with Gary Kubiak, a Ravens’ descent coordinator and former Texans conduct coach.

Kubiak is mostly deliberate a front-runner in Denver. Two other candidates, Broncos descent coordinator Adam Gase and Bengals defensive backs manager Vance Joseph, met with Elway in Denver final week, Gase on Thursday and Joseph on Friday.

Kubiak was Elway’s backup QB from 1983-91 and Denver’s descent coordinator from 1995-2005 underneath Mike Shanahan, and he helped digest a blueprints for Elway’s back-to-back Super Bowl championships that capped his Hall of Fame personification career.

Hall of Fame finalist and NFL Network researcher Terrell Davis, Elway’s co-pilot on those pretension runs, pronounced “Oh, man, if it’s Kubiak, that would be great. I’d adore to see him behind in Denver. John Elway pronounced during a lectern a other day that he knew what it took to win a championship. Well, who else was there when he won a championship? Kubiak.”

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