GREEN BAY – Packers safety Xavier McKinney has been named first-team All-Pro, as determined by a vote of 50 media members of the Associated Press.
McKinney received 31 first-team votes, finishing with 107 total points. First-place votes are worth three points and second-place votes worth one.
McKinney signed with Green Bay as an unrestricted free agent in March and proceeded to start all 17 games with a team-high 1,067 defensive snaps.
The 25-year-old safety finished with 85 tackles (58 solo), a sack, 11 passes defensed, a fumble recovery, and a team-high eight interceptions, which ranked second in the NFL and marked the most INTs by a Packer since CB Charles Woodson had nine in 2009.
McKinney's eight games with an INT this season tied for the league lead and for the most by a Packer ever. Earlier this season, McKinney became the first NFL player since the 1970 merger with an INT in each of his first five games with a team.
His streak of five straight games with an INT also tied for the longest streak in franchise history (Irv Comp in 1943).
"I can't say it again how much I appreciate 'X' being here, not just as a player, as a person," said defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley of McKinney on Thursday. "Even the way he practiced again today. There was one rep it looked like he was going live today, and I went over it with the iPad, and I was like, 'This is awesome. This is why you're an All-Pro.'"
McKinney is the first Packers safety to be named first-team All-Pro in 24 years and the first defensive back to earn first-team honors since 2009.
Other Packers players who received All-Pro votes included left guard Elgton Jenkins, right tackle Zach Tom, kickoff returner and cornerback Keisean Nixon (at both positions), and linebacker Edgerrin Cooper.
