The PewterReport.com Roundtable features the opinions of the PR staff as it tackles a topic related to the Tampa Bay Bucs each week.

This week’s topic: Will the Bucs have any Pro Bowlers this year?

Scott Reynolds: They’ll Have Two, But Someone Is Getting Snubbed
Bucs defensive tackle Gerald McCoy has been the team’s Pro Bowl mainstay over the last six years. Win or lose, McCoy has typically recorded enough sacks to get to Hawaii or Orlando – or wherever the NFL’s overhyped all-star game as been played. McCoy got to the Pro Bowl last year despite having six sacks, his fewest sack total in six years, and that was enough to get him in.

McCoy already has six sacks right now, which is an encouraging sign for him making a seventh straight Pro Bowl, and trails only a few other NFC defensive tackles, including Los Angeles’ Aaron Donald (14.5), San Francisco’s DeForest Buckner (7), New Orleans’ Sheldon Rankins (7). McCoy is tied with Green Bay’s Kenny Clark, but I don’t think he’s a lock right now. The fact that the Bucs aren’t on national TV anymore and aren’t in the playoff hunt won’t help his cause, but with five games left, McCoy could finish the season strong and wind up with eight or nine, which would only help.

Defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul and wide receiver Mike Evans are the most likely other candidates in red and pewter for the Pro Bowl. Pierre-Paul has 10.5 sacks, which leads the Bucs and ranks fifth in the league. Pierre-Paul ranks behind only Minnesota’s Danielle Hunter (11.5) and Arizona’s Chandler Jones (11) at the defensive end position in the NFC, which aids his effort to make a third career Pro Bowl. Pierre-Paul is a two-time Pro Bowler and is an established “name” player in the league. It would be hard to overlook him, especially if he finishes the season with 13 or 14 sacks or more. If he does that, I think JPP is in the Pro Bowl in his first season in red and pewter.

Bucs WR Mike Evans – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Evans already has 1,000 yards receiving with five games left. Evans’ 1,073 yards ranks fifth in the league, but he’s fourth in the NFC behind Atlanta’s Julio Jones (1,305), Minnesota’s Adam Thielen (1,138) and New Orleans’ Michael Thomas (1,080). The problem for Evans is that he ranks 19th in the league with only 62 catches, and his five touchdowns are only tied for 20th. Evans is having a Pro Bowl-caliber season, but so are a lot of other NFC wide receivers, and players like Thielen and Thomas are playing on teams that will be in the playoffs.

Unless he puts together a few more 100-yard performances and scores some more touchdowns, he’s not a lock to make the Pro Bowl and could snubbed because he’s playing on a bad Buccaneers team. Evans had his worst game of the season at Carolina against cornerback James Bradberry in a 42-28 loss with one catch for 16 yards. He’ll get a chance to make amends this Sunday at Raymond James Stadium and continue his Pro Bowl push.

Mark Cook: Should Be Three, Maybe Four?
It is hard to imagine having one of the NFL’s top-rated offenses and not having a Pro Bowler. And it could happen, but Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans should be heading to Orlando come January. Evans is definitely having another Pro Bowl-caliber season. Evans’ 1,073 yards currently ranks fifth in the NFL, but his catch numbers are down compared to some of the other receivers in the NFC. That is part of the problem when a team has an offense loaded with receiving options.

Guard Ali Marpet might not make it this year, but he should. Find me a more consistent left guard in the league, especially in the NFC. From a fan’s perspective, and even in the media’s perspective at times, guards get lost in the shuffle. When the game is happening, the only time we tend to notice guards is when they make a mistake. But when you go back and watch the film later in the week and look specifically at the offensive line, Marpet is just there, consistently doing his job and dominating at times.

Bucs LG Ali Marpet – Photo by: Mary Holt/P

Lastly on the defensive side, Jason Pierre-Paul is also having a Pro Bowl-caliber year with 10.5 sacks. If you are a Bucs fan, JPP should be in based on the fact he is the first Tampa Bay player to record double-digit sacks since Simeon Rice had 14 in 2005. It’s been a while – like 13 years.

And don’t be surprised if Gerald McCoy makes it to Orlando again. With six sacks, McCoy is in the top echelon of NFC defensive tackles in sacks. And his history and reputation as perennial Pro Bowl may also factor in as well.

Trevor Sikkema: Only One
Scott Reynolds already laid out the consistency in which Gerald McCoy has been a regular at the Pro Bowl, and the type of season Mike Evans is having that would make him worth of the honor, as well, but I think that this is the year where both get left out. I think that people are tired of talking about the Bucs, especially nationally, and then watching them underperform as bad as they have. So I think that if there is anything in question, which there certainly can be with nationally hyped games and individual performances, which you could argue for both, that they’ll get left out this year.

Not that that may be right or wrong, we’ll certainly see, but even on the path they are on, I’ll say that the Bucs only have one Pro Bowler this year, and that is defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.

Bucs DE Jason Pierre-Paul – Photo by: Getty Images

Pierre-Paul is fifth in the league in sacks, and is just a half a sack and one total sack behind Chandler Jones and Danielle Hunter, who is the Pro Bowl competition for tops in the NFC. I do also think Bears defensive end Khalil Mack will get voted in, even with eight sacks right now, just because of the impact he’s been able to have on his nationally televised games.

With five games left, Pierre-Paul sits at 10.5 sacks. If he can get himself 13 or 14, as Reynolds mentioned with JPP’s well-established name around the NFL, I think he will get in. The only other edge defensive lineman who I think would be a threat to Pierre-Paul not being one of the top four for the NFC is Cowboys’ Demarcus Lawrence. But at 8.5 sacks right now, Lawrence would have to go on a tear to catch Pierre-Paul. I don’t think he does, but I do think JPP is the only representation the Bucs will have in Orlando this year.