Will Reichard: A Robust Contender for Professional Bowl Recognition

Fan voting for the Professional Bowl Video games ends on Monday, and the Minnesota Vikings are pushing their specialists as candidates for NFC honors. That features kicker Will Reichard, a former Hoover Excessive College and Alabama standout.

The Vikings’ promotional effort attire Reichard, punter Ryan Wright and lengthy snapper Andrew DePaola as a barbershop quartet (minus one) to ship their pitch in a sure pitch – however not fairly in track – in a quick video.

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Reichard has Professional Bowl credentials in a convention that additionally options prime kickers Brandon Aubrey of the Dallas Cowboys and Chase McLaughlin of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In his second season since becoming a member of the Vikings within the fifth spherical of the 2024 NFL Draft, Reichard has develop into the primary participant to make 4 subject targets of 59 or extra yards in a single marketing campaign. He’s 4-of-4 from that distance.

General, Reichard has made 22-of-24 field-goal makes an attempt and all 23 of his extra-point kicks in 2025. With eight subject targets of not less than 50 yards, Reichard trails solely McLaughlin, who has 10, and Aubrey, who has 9, within the NFL this season.

Minnesota’s spotty offense is costing Reichard scoring alternatives, although. In 13 video games this season, he has 89 factors. As a rookie, Reichard scored 110 factors in 13 video games as he had six extra field-goal makes an attempt and the Vikings had 15 extra touchdowns than in 2025.

Followers can vote on-line for his or her Professional Bowl favorites by way of Monday. Reichard is among the many 74 gamers from Alabama excessive colleges and schools on the poll.

Followers can also vote by way of X by tweeting the primary and final names of a participant, tagging the participant’s X deal with or making a hashtag from the participant’s first and final names. All three strategies should embody #ProBowlVote. On Sunday and Monday, every social-media vote counts as two.

This yr, followers can entry Professional Bowl Video games voting on Madden NFL 26 Cell by way of the Professional Bowl occasion tile within the Madden Cell Final Crew mode. Votes might be made utilizing Poll Tokens (as much as 30 per day) and Poll Tokens reset each day at 9:30 a.m. CST. Votes on Madden Cell additionally rely double in the course of the remaining two days of voting.

NFL gamers and coaches will make their Professional Bowl choices on Friday.

The choices made by followers, gamers and coaches will rely one-third apiece towards figuring out the Professional Bowl Video games rosters for the AFC and NFC groups.

The 7-on-7 flag soccer sport that includes the Professional Bowl gamers shall be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at Moscone Heart South Constructing in San Francisco.