Tremaine Edmunds joins Kyle Fuller at Pro BowlTremaine Edmunds joins Kyle Fuller at Pro Bowl
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Tremaine Edmunds joins Kyle Fuller at Pro Bowl

BUFFALO – The National Football League announced on Thursday that LB Tremaine Edmunds will compete in the 2020 Pro Bowl. Edmunds was a first alternate in his second NFL season and with New England LB Dont'a Hightower sitting out the Pro Bowl due to injury, the former Virginia Tech standout is now slated to join fellow Tech alum and Chicago Bears CB Kyle Fuller in Orlando. The Pro Bowl will kick off at 2 p.m. (CT) on Sunday, Jan. 26 at Camping World Stadium.
 


Edmunds is the first player in NFL history to record two 100-plus tackle seasons by the age of 21. The Danville, Virginia native led the Bills with 115 total tackles and was tied for second in tackles for loss and pass breakups. The former first-round pick was part of stingy Buffalo defense that ranked in the NFL's top 10 in the following categories: Scoring defense (No. 2 – 16.2 ppg), total defense (No. 3 – 298.3 ypg), pass defense (No. 4 – 195.2 ypg), first downs allowed (No. 6 – 262), third-down defense (No. 7 – 35.8%), run defense (No. 10 – 103.1 ypg) and sacks (No. 10 – 44.0). 

Chicago Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller will make his second straight trip to the Pro Bowl, the NFL announced in early January. Fuller replaces the Rams' Jalen Ramsey, who is unable to participate due to an injury.
The Pro Bowl will kick off at 2 p.m. (CT) on Sunday, Jan. 26 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla.
 
Fuller becomes the first Tech alum to register consecutive Pro Bowl trips since Seattle S Kam Chancellor had a three-year Pro Bowl run following the 2013-15 seasons. 
 
The Baltimore native led the Bears with three interceptions and 12 pass breakups and finished second with 82 tackles. The 2014 first-round draft pick was part of a defense that helped the Bears rank fourth in the NFL in scoring defense (18.6 ppg) and eighth in total defense (324.1 ypg).hoki
 
Last season Fuller was named first-team All-Pro and voted to his first career Pro Bowl after tying for the NFL lead with seven interceptions and topping the league with 21 pass breakups. Fuller's 10 interceptions the past two seasons are tied for the most in the league with Falcons safety Damontae Kazee. In last season's Pro Bowl, Fuller intercepted an Andrew Luck pass to become the first Bears player with a pick in the annual all-star game since the 2005 season.
 


 
Fuller is part of one of football's most unique family lineages, along with his brothers Vincent, Corey and Kendall. That quartet represents the only four brothers in NFL history to all attend the same college and all be selected in the NFL Draft. Kendall currently serves as a cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs, who are hosting Houston in an AFC Division Playoff Game on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. 
 
Two of the four captains for the game are former Virginia Tech stars who were No. 1 overall selections in the NFL Draft. The NFL's all-time sack king, Bruce Smith, will serve as the AFC's defensive captain, while the top overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft, Michael Vick will captain the NFC offense. 
 
Smith prepped at Booker T. Washington High in Norfolk, Virginia and was later the top selection in the 1985 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. He helped lead the Buffalo Bills to four Super Bowl appearances as he accumulated 11 Pro Bowl berths and eight All-Pro selections. 
Vick was a four-time Pro Bowl pick, earning that honor three times with the Atlanta Falcons (2002, 2004-05) and once with Philadelphia (2010). Vick starred at Warwick High School in Newport News, Virginia before guiding Tech to the 1999 National Championship Game. In 143 career regular season NFL games, he threw 133 TD passes and ran for 36 more.