Chiefs’ Andy Reid to coach Pro Bowl for fifth time

Not only are several Chiefs players headed to Hawaii, but their coaching staff is headed there, too.

On Wednesday, the NFL announced that Andy Reid and his coaching staff will be assigned to one of the two teams in this year’s Pro Bowl, which will be played at 6 p.m. Jan. 31 at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii.

Reid’s team will go head-to-head against a team coached by Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy and his staff. Their rosters will be assigned to them after a Pro Bowl draft, which will be shown on ESPN2 at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27.

The NFL selects the coaching staffs by taking the best-seeded team to lose in the divisional round in each conference. The Chiefs, who finished 11-5, were the No. 5 seed in the AFC after beating No. 4 seed Houston in the wild-card round. The other AFC divisional-round qualifier was Pittsburgh, which finished 10-6 and was the No. 6 seed.

This will mark Reid’s fifth time as a head coach in the Pro Bowl. He also led the NFC in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2008, back when when the format was conference versus conference. His record as a Pro Bowl head coach is 1-3.

Reid’s staff will join several Chiefs players who were selected to play in the game, including safety Eric Berry, outside linebacker Justin Houston, outside linebacker Tamba Hali, cornerback Marcus Peters and tight end Travis Kelce.

Four more Chiefs have a chance to play in the game as well. Inside linebacker Derrick Johnson, nose tackle Dontari Poe, quarterback Alex Smith and punter Dustin Colquitt are Pro Bowl alternates.

This story was originally published January 20, 2016 at 3:10 PM with the headline "Chiefs’ Andy Reid to coach Pro Bowl for fifth time."