The New England Patriots recently had three players named to the initial AFC Pro Bowl roster, but only one cracked Bill Barnwell’s All-Pro first team for 2021: cornerback J.C. Jackson.
Barnwell, an NFL analyst for ESPN, revealed his (unofficial) picks Thursday, with two weeks remaining in the regular season, and Jackson joined Trevon Diggs of the Dallas Cowboys and A.J. Terrell of the Atlanta Falcons as the first-team representatives at cornerback.
Barnwell described Jackson as being “somewhere between those two extremes” after highlighting Diggs’ propensity for intercepting passes and Terrell’s knack for locking down one half of the field despite fewer splash plays.