NFL Pro Bowl Negotiations---NFL Pro Bowl, NFL moving to suspend Pro Bowl: The NFL is moving toward suspending the Pro Bowl, as soon as this year, sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.

Many players who will be selected during this week's NFL draft are regarded as future Pro Bowl selections, but the game itself likely will be suspended this season and beyond, according to league sources.

The next Pro Bowl is scheduled the week before the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Feb. 3, but a game site has not been listed because of its precarious status, sources added.

Sources say that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has previously voiced his displeasure with the lack of competitiveness in recent Pro Bowl games, is strongly considering suspending this year's game, sources say.

Beyond 2013, another league source believes the Pro Bowl is "DOA (dead on arrival)."

If the game is suspended, the league still would have a Pro Bowl balloting process to identify the season's top players and would direct teams to negotiate Pro Bowl clauses into player contracts and to honor Pro Bowl incentive clauses to avoid any serious conflict with the players association.

Those players also likely would be honored in some fashion during Super Bowl week.

Goodell recently has asked players for suggestions to make the game more attractive but has yet to embrace a solution, sources said.

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