NFL Pro Bowl Games: 2025 dates, schedule, how to watch, events

The 2025 Pro Bowl Games will take place in the week between the conference championship games and the NFL Championship game.

2025 will mark the third edition of the 'Pro Bowl Games' in which the event will consist off skills competitions and non-contact flag football games, rather than a tackle football game with pads and helmets.

Here is all you need to know about the event.

NFL Pro Bowl Games 2025 date

The Pro Bowl Games will take place on Sunday, February 2, 2025.

The Thursday Skills Showdown will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2025.

NFL Pro Bowl Games 2025 location and venue

The 2025 NFL Pro Bowl Games will take place at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

How to watch the NFL Pro Bowl Games, TV channel and streaming

The Pro Bowl Games will air on ESPN, ABC and Disney XD, with a Spanish-language broadcast available on ESPN Deportes.

Streaming will be available on ESPN+ and NFL+.

The Thursday Skills Showdown will air on ESPN.

NFL Pro Bowl Games 2025 events

Thursday, January 30th

• Passing The Test - A test of both passing accuracy and NFL knowledge, this challenge has quarterbacks try to hit targets around the field each worth a different number of points within a 40-second time frame. Beforehand, each QB will pick a Pro Bowl Games teammate to answer five trivia questions about other Pro Bowl players, and for each correct answer, the QB gets an extra 10 seconds. The team with the most points wins.

• Satisfying Catches - The winner of this event is the team - made up of one wide receiver, one tight end, and one defensive back - which completes a timed obstacle course that tests players' catching abilities. Players will catch footballs from a JUGS machine at three different distances to test every aspect of catching.

• Relay Race - This one is pretty straightforward: four teams in each conference made up of four players run a 40-yard dash relay. There will be three rounds.

• Helmet Harmony - Think Pro Bowlers know their teammates? The NFL's best will be put to the test in this event, which is a game show in which the team that answers the most questions correctly wins.

• Dodgeball - This is a classic team sport that had a spike in popularity following the 2004 movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller, and it will be used as one of the Pro Bowl Games.

Sunday, February 2nd

• Punt Perfect - This is one for the punters. And non-punters, too. One punter and one non-punter will pair up and punt from the 35-yard line, aiming at a set of six buckets in the end zone. Each punt that lands in a bucket earns the punter's team a point, with every fifth made punt getting three points. Highest combined score wins.

• The Great Football Race - This is a physical challenge that involves six players from each conference taking on an obstacle course, which ends with a sled push.

• Tug-of-war - This was new to 2024 and saw two teams of five players going head-to-head in an old-fashioned tug-of-war, positioned above a foam pit.

• Flag football - There will be three Flag Football games, all of which will be seven-on-seven. In 2024, the three matches were spread across Sunday and a similar plan is expected this time around.

NFL Pro Bowl Games voting

The two rosters for the Pro Bowl Games are determined by the votes of fans, players and coaches, with each group’s vote counting as one-third of the total to choose the all-star players.

NFL Pro Bowl Games history

The Pro Bowl Games, as it has been known as since 2023, has seen a lot of changes to the name and format since the very first instalment back in 1939, when it was called the NFL All-Star Games.

The All-Star Games lasted until 1942, just five editions, and this is where the league's reigning champion went up against a team of all-stars.

With no games played from 1943-1950, it was not until 1951 when the American Football world witnessed the return of this event, although it was now named the Pro Bowls and it would be until 1969.

The format here would see the top players in the American/Eastern Conference take on their counterparts in the National/Western Conference.

After the merger with the American Football League (AFL) in 1970, the name was changed to the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, which pitted the best of the AFC against the finest in the NFC. It was known as this until 2012 before there were then three Unconferenced Pro Bowls from 2013-2015.

In a change to the format in these three Unconferenced Bowls, two honorary captains would choose players in a televised pick to make their teams, instead of having to select from each conference.

With ratings low, another tweak was made from the 2017 AFC-NFC Pro Bowls, a name they reverted back to after a three-year absence, with a series of events brought in leading up to the game.

These were called the Pro Bowl Skills Showdown and it included passing contests, dodgeball etc, many of the events that are still used in the current format.

From 2023, this event has been known as the Pro Bowl Games, which involves a partnership with Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions. The biggest change here is the introduction of a Flag Football game instead of the usual NFL style of match to reduce injuries.