Chiefs Place 4 ON All-Decade Team

From Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

The Chiefs may have been shut out of the Pro Bowl, but they were well represented on the NFL’s All-Decade teams for the 2000s that was announced Sunday evening here in south Florida.

TE Tony Gonzalez, OT Willie Roaf, G Will Shields and Retuner Dante Hall were all named to the 53-man team that was voted on by the Pro Football Hall of Fame Board of Selectors.

Hall was the big winner, as he was selected as a kick returner and punt returner, the only player to be selected for two different positions.

Here’s how impressive the Chiefs four picks were – no other team in the league had more. Several others also had four players, teams like New  England, Indianapolis and Baltimore. All of those teams won a Super Bowl in the decade; the Chiefs did win a single game in the playoffs.

Joining Gonzalez as an All-Decade tight end was San Diego’s Antonio Gates. Joining Shields among the guards were Larry Allen of Dallas, Alan Faneca of Pittsburgh/N.Y. Jets and Steve Hutchinson of Seattle/Minnesota.

The other OTs with Roaf were Walter Jones of Seattle, Jonathan Ogden of Baltimore and Orlando Pace of St.  Louis/Chicago.

Joining Hall as a kick returner was Cleveland’s Joshua Cribbs, and joining him as a punt returner was Devin Hester.

As far as NFL All-Decade teams, the most Chiefs that made one of the previous teams was two players, with Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith in the 1990s and Bobby Bell and Jerrel Wilson in the 1970s.

Here’s the NFL’s team of the decade for the 2000s.