Pro Bowl voting leaders for the 2026 Games: fan-vote counts by player and position
Pro Bowl voting leaders for 2026 were published by the NFL after fan voting closed on Monday, December 15, 2025, as vote counts. Tight end Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs led all players with 420,383 votes. The NFL scheduled the AFC and NFC rosters for announcement on December 23 at 10 a.m. ET.
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Results and counts: what the NFL's vote table lists
Pro Bowl voting leaders came out as counts. After fan voting concluded on Monday, December 15, 2025, the league published a table with four columns: position, player, team and votes. Every figure in it is a count of fan votes, and no percentage sits beside any of them.
Travis Kelce heads the field. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end led all players in fan balloting for the second consecutive season, with 420,383 votes. Three quarterbacks also carry counts in the table: Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills with 263,127, Drake Maye of the New England Patriots with 259,978 and Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears with 216,838.
The counts were published after voting closed on December 15, 2025, so they are closing figures and not running ones. A count for a player the table does not list is not stated, which is why no count is given for Shedeur Sanders.
Results by position: Allen and Williams lead the QB lines
The league lists fan-vote leaders by position and by conference. At quarterback, the AFC line names Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills with 263,127 votes, and the NFC line names Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears with 216,838.
Drake Maye's 259,978 sits between the two: fewer votes than Allen, more than Williams. He is not a conference leader at quarterback, because the league names Allen for the AFC and Williams for the NFC, so his count stands without a leader tag.
Each line is a contest inside one position and one conference. Allen and Williams lead their own lines, and neither line ranks one against the other.
Outside quarterback, the one position count quoted here is Kelce's 420,383 at tight end, the highest of any player. Counts for every other position are not stated.
Shedeur Sanders: a rank of 10th among quarterbacks, and no count
talkSPORT reports that Shedeur Sanders ranked 10th in quarterback votes in the 2026 Pro Bowl Games fan voting. The report gives a rank for Sanders and no vote count, and none is stated in the figures published for the leaders.
A rank of 10th shows that nine quarterbacks drew more votes than Sanders. It cannot be turned into a count. The gap between ranks is not stated, and any number offered for Sanders would be a guess.
Anyone comparing Sanders with Drake Maye can set Maye's 259,978 against a rank of 10th and nothing more. The comparison the question asks for, votes against votes, needs a count that no published figure supplies.
His rank locates him in the quarterback field, and the published counts of Allen, Maye and Williams mark the top of it.
Announcement dates: voting closed December 15, rosters December 23
The league announced the leaders after fan voting concluded on Monday, December 15, 2025. Its article on them states that the AFC and NFC player rosters were scheduled for announcement on Tuesday, December 23, at 10 a.m. ET.
The format changes from the 2026 season. The league plans to reveal its Pro Bowl roster in late December through an enhanced announcement across NFL, club, social and broadcast partner platforms, highlighting the 88 selected players.
The league's vote page states that the ballot is closed. No later update to the closing counts is stated, and any change to them would be the league's to announce.
Live leaderboard: counts the league posted during earlier voting
The league has posted fan-vote leaders while voting was still open. In the 2021 voting, Patrick Mahomes led all players with 143,355 votes, and for the 2025 Pro Bowl Games Lamar Jackson led with 82,402 votes after two weeks of voting.
Those are in-progress figures from earlier seasons, each dated by its season and, for 2025, by the two-week mark. No in-progress count for the 2026 Games is stated, so the table published after the close of voting is the only set of 2026 counts on record.
Standings during voting are snapshots. A leader after two weeks can change before the close, and a count with no season or period attached cannot be set beside the closing table.
Top vote getters by club: the Bears led, with no club count given
The league also ranked clubs by the total votes their players received. The Chicago Bears led all clubs, followed by the Denver Broncos, the Green Bay Packers, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions.
The ranking states the order and no club totals, so the gap between the Bears and the Broncos is not stated. A club's rank is a sum over its players, and it does not say which players supplied the votes.
Two clubs with large individual counts are missing from the five: the Buffalo Bills, through Josh Allen's 263,127, and the New England Patriots, through Drake Maye's 259,978. The Chiefs and the Bears are in the five, and Kelce and Williams play for them, but the ranking does not say how much of a club's total comes from one player.
Why a fan-vote leader is not yet a roster spot
The league states that fan, player and coach votes each count for one-third toward determining the all-star players selected to the Pro Bowl Games. Club pages repeat the line: fan votes count for one-third of the overall votes, with player and coach votes one-third each.
That makes Kelce's 420,383 the largest fan count and still one input among three. No player or coach vote counts are stated, so a fan-vote lead shows one third of the picture.
Where each figure sits: the league's pages and the club pages
The closing table, the conference quarterback lines, the club ranking and the roster date all come from a single league article on the 2026 Pro Bowl Games fan-vote leaders. Other pages hold other pieces.
- The league's article on the fan-vote leaders: the closing table, the conference quarterback lines, the club ranking and the roster date.
- The league's vote page: the statement that the ballot is closed.
- The league's earlier leaderboard articles: the 2021 and 2025 in-progress counts.
- The league's announcement of the new roster reveal: the late December format from the 2026 season.
- Club pages: the one-third selection rule and the social voting rule.
- talkSPORT: Shedeur Sanders' rank of 10th in quarterback votes.
Platform rules, fake votes and what a count cannot show
A published count is a sum of votes cast under the league's rules. The Patriots' page on the vote states that fans can vote as often as they would like, so 420,383 is a count of votes and not of fans.
Platform rules shape the sum. The Steelers' page states that every social voting method must include #ProBowlVote or Pro Bowl Vote, and a post without it falls outside that rule. What the league does with a vote that breaks a rule, flagged or fake, is the league's decision.
The table lists counts and gives no figure for removed or rejected votes. The league's wording does not describe how it spots a fake vote, which leaves no basis for a claim about detection either way.
Because the league alone counts the votes and publishes the table, no outside party can change a count or secure a player a Pro Bowl spot.
| Player | Position and team | Fan votes | What the table adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Kelce | TE, Kansas City Chiefs | 420,383 | Led all players, second consecutive season |
| Josh Allen | QB, Buffalo Bills | 263,127 | Leader of AFC quarterbacks |
| Drake Maye | QB, New England Patriots | 259,978 | Count listed; not a conference leader |
| Caleb Williams | QB, Chicago Bears | 216,838 | Leader of NFC quarterbacks |
| Shedeur Sanders | QB | Not stated | Ranked 10th in quarterback votes, per talkSPORT |
Fast answers
How many Pro Bowl votes did Shedeur Sanders get?
No vote count for Shedeur Sanders is stated; talkSPORT reports that he ranked 10th in quarterback votes in the 2026 Pro Bowl Games fan voting. A rank of 10th means nine quarterbacks drew more, and no figure for him exists to print.
How many Pro Bowl votes did Drake Maye get?
Drake Maye received 259,978 fan votes for the 2026 Pro Bowl Games, according to the NFL's vote table. The table lists him as a New England Patriots quarterback, below Josh Allen's 263,127 and above Caleb Williams' 216,838.
How many Pro Bowl votes did Sanders get compared with Drake Maye?
Drake Maye's count is 259,978 and no count is stated for Sanders, so the two cannot be compared by votes. The only comparison available is by rank, and talkSPORT places Sanders 10th among quarterbacks.
Who led the fan voting for the 2026 Pro Bowl Games?
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce led all players with 420,383 votes, for the second consecutive season. Josh Allen led AFC quarterbacks with 263,127 and Caleb Williams led NFC quarterbacks with 216,838.
What kind of figures does the NFL list for Pro Bowl fan votes?
The NFL lists vote counts: its table gives each player's position, team and number of votes, and it shows no percentages. Club totals come as a rank order only, with the Chicago Bears first.
When did the NFL announce the 2026 Pro Bowl rosters?
The NFL scheduled the AFC and NFC rosters for announcement on Tuesday, December 23, at 10 a.m. ET, after fan voting concluded on Monday, December 15, 2025.
Which club received the most Pro Bowl fan votes?
The Chicago Bears led all clubs in total votes received, the NFL lists, followed by the Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions. No club totals are given, only the order.
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