It might feel way too early for football fans to care about the Pro Bowl, but for the New York Giants, individual nods are about the only thing left to play for right now. This will be the only postseason action some of them will get, as another miserable season drags to an end.
The Pro Bowl selection process is a mix of popularity and performance, with fans, players, and coaches each accounting for one-third of the vote. Fans cast their ballots online or on social media, while players and coaches vote separately later on in the process.
Fan voting has been well underway, and only two Giants players have cracked the top 10 at their respective positions: Brian Burns (outside linebacker) and Bobby Okereke (inside linebacker). That’s brutal. You know the season’s gone off the rails when just two players get any fan recognition.
Here are the rest of the fan vote totals, broken down by position. https://t.co/5xmQN5O6pP pic.twitter.com/Ky0myZeDOh
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 9, 2025
Fan voting isn't always indicative of player performance. That's why it's a fan vote. More often than not, it's a popularity contest. Still, it was baffling to see one big name curiously left off the list: Giants left tackle Andrew Thomas.
Giants’ brutal 2025 season could quietly cost Andrew Thomas a deserved Pro Bowl nod
Let's just call it how Giants fans see it: this team is so unwatchable that no one's truly appreciating how impressive a season the sixth-year pro has been having.
Advanced metrics aren’t everything, but Pro Football Focus has him graded as the third-best tackle in football with an 87.8 overall rating, out of 82 eligible players. That has to count for something.
What makes the former Georgia Bulldog standout's performance even more fascinating is the fact that he was out of football for nearly a year while recovering from a Lisfranc foot injury suffered in Week 6 of last year. He returned in Week 3 this season on a limited snap count, and ever since, he's been back in elite form.
Don't get me wrong, players like Zack Tom, Rasheed Walker, Dion Dawkins, and Darnell Wright are great. But they play for teams a lot more interesting than the Giants, which is why Thomas gets shamelessly ignored in the early voting process.
The soon-to-be 27-year-old is also a relatively quiet guy, and that works against him in a process like this. Hopefully, the players and coaches step up and do right by him, because Thomas isn’t just having a Pro Bowl-worthy season -- he’s playing at an All-Pro level right now.
If Andrew Thomas’ exclusion from the top-10 early voting tells fans anything, it’s that this team is a joke, no one wants to watch them, and truly dominant individual seasons like Thomas' are being laughably wasted.