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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and special team ace Ben Skowronek continues to have a remarkable 2025 season. His stellar play has been noticed, as he finished as the leading Pro Bowl Games vote-getter for Special Teams player. The AFC and NFC player rosters for the 2026 Pro Bowl Games will be announced on Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 10:00 a.m.
If selected, it would be Skowronek’s first-ever Pro Bowl nomination in his five-year career. Fan voting makes up one-third of the Pro Bowl selection process, with players and coaches accounting for the remaining two-thirds. Skowronek was the only Steelers player to lead his position group in voting.
“It’s cool, I guess,” Skowronek said about leading Pro Bowl voting for special teams player among the fans. “It’s something that I had my goal to be All-Pro, a Pro Bowl guy, so it’s cool. I just want to keep on winning. That’s cooler to me.”
Skowronek, who’s dealing with a hand injury, has worn a cast the last two games. As soon as it happened, he said I’m not missing any games.
“It’s nothing, really. I can put a cast on, I can play. I just love playing. So, I’m going to fight through anything,” Skowronek said.
Ben Skowronek making plays on special teams 👏 pic.twitter.com/D9CinMqat5
— NFL (@NFL) December 16, 2025
Skowronek has produced mostly on special teams this season. He’s a core player on every unit. He has especially shined as a gunner on punt returns. On offense, he has four receptions for 69 yards and a touchdown.
Steelers fans and the city of Pittsburgh has embraced Skowronek’s blue-collar style of play.
“It’s in the limelight to Mike Tomlin,” Skowronek of being a special teams ace. “Every Thursday we spend a lot of time doing special teams. I take great pride in it. It’s something that I’ve realized the fans recognize too. Even my first couple weeks here, I was going out to eat and the bartender said, hey, you’re the gunner, aren’t you? So, it’s cool, man. The city of Pittsburgh, they appreciate football players.”
Skowronek credits his work ethic and grittiness from his upbringing.
“My parents always joke that I was a bulldog,” Skowronek said. “I’d never quit. I was the youngest kid in my neighborhood. I had an older brother, and he’d always have his friends over and I just played with them. So, I was always the youngest guy. I’d go to his practices. When I was kid, four or five years old, I would always go to his practice, and they’d let me practice against the older guys. So, now I’m just used to that.
“When I started playing basketball, my dad always put me the age group above on the worst team. I remember being 0-28 one year and then winning the last game of the season.
“So, I give it as a testament to my environment growing up. My parents always put me in hard situations, and I appreciate...
