49ers' 5 best candidates to earn first Pro Bowl nod in 2023
Who will be the 49ers' next class of Pro Bowl players after the 2023 season?
By Peter Panacy
49ers Pro Bowl candidate No. 4: Aaron Banks
Remember back at the end of the 2021 season when fans (and us, too) were worried about offensive guard Aaron Banks being a complete bust?
Well, all of us were wrong. Massively wrong.
While Banks didn't play much at all during his rookie year, 2022 was quite the revelation. As a full-time starter, Pro Football Focus credited Banks with only one sack and two quarterback hits allowed on 526 pass-blocking snaps over the course of the year.
That's awfully impressive.
Plus, considering there aren't too many elite-level guards in the NFC this season, Banks' path to a first-time Pro Bowl nod might merely be by default only.
And he wouldn't care if that's how he received his first accolade of the kind.