The 2020 All-Pro teams were named by the
Associated Press
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Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are dist ...
(AP),
Pro Football Writers of America
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(PFWA), and ''
Sporting News
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'' (SN) for performance in the
2020 NFL season
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. Any player selected to the first-team of any of the teams can be described as an "All-Pro." The AP team, with first-team and second-team selections, was chosen by a national panel of fifty NFL writers and broadcasters. ''The Sporting News'' All-NFL team was voted on by NFL players and executives. The PFWA team is selected by its more than 300 national members who are accredited media members covering the NFL.
For the 2020 vote, the AP removed the offensive "flex" position that had been added to the ballot in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, and instead added a third wide receiver to the ballot.
They also added
long snapper
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as its own position.
Teams
Key
*AP = Associated Press first-team All-Pro
*AP-2 = Associated Press second-team All-Pro
*AP-t = Tied for first-team All-Pro in the AP vote
*AP-2t = Tied for second-team All-Pro in the AP vote
*PFWA = Pro Football Writers Association All-NFL
*SN = ''Sporting News'' All-Pro
Number of AP selections per team
References
All-Pro Teams
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