Cleveland Browns center and former San Marcos High star Alex Mack has been selected to play in Sunday’s Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mack, a second-year pro out of Cal, is replacing Nick Mangold of the New York Jets on the AFC team.
Mack is a first-time Pro Bowl participant and enjoyed hearing the news of his selection.
“I’m really excited to be able to go out there for the Pro Bowl,” Mack told ClevelandBrowns.com. “It’s something you definitely aim for your whole career and so, to make it early on is just fantastic.
“I got an email actually. I jumped up and down and ran around the room a couple times,” he added. “I texted just about everyone that I knew. I called [my parents] this morning. They were really excited. They were fired up and I know my mom’s going to try to get a plane ticket out.”
Mack became the sixth Browns center to earn a trip to the Pro Bowl. Tom DeLeone (1980-81), Hall of Famer Frank “Gunner” Gatski (1957), Fred Hoaglin (1970), Art Hunter (1960) and John Morrow (1962, 1964) are the only other centers in team history to make it to the Pro Bowl.
In 2010, Mack cleared the way for first-year Browns running back Peyton Hillis to run for 1,177 yards and 11 touchdowns. For the second straight year, Mack made every offensive snap next.
After another set of cold December and January games in Cleveland, a t a University of California product.
“I’m going to soak in the entire experience in full,” he said. “It’s going to be nice. I’m actually in California now, so it’s going from really good to just a little bit better.”
