"I was kind of scared to pick up the phone because I didn't want to be disappointed," said Sellers, whose cell phone was full of messages when he turned it back on after the hunt. "It's been a long time coming. I'm very fortunate and very humbled."

Sellers, 33, never attended a four-year college, went to the CFL at 19, was released by Cleveland after he flunked a drug test in 2001 and went back to the CFL before he returned to the Redskins in 2004.

--RB Clinton Portis said making the Pro Bowl means a lot more this year than it did when he was a Denver rookie in 2002.

"It means a lot," Portis said. "I definitely appreciate it because you never know when it's going to come again. The first trip, you take for granted."

BY THE NUMBERS: 3 -- Players not practicing on Wednesday: tackle Jon Jansen, guard Pete Kendall and linebacker London Fletcher. Jansen is the only question mark since Kendall and Fletcher have played every week.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "Several (players) came up and said, 'What were you talking about?' It's just hard not to feel terrible about the (five losses in six weeks). It just feels sickening and that was all I was trying to express up there on the podium." -- Coach Jim Zorn about the reaction to his "I feel like the worst coach in America" comment from Monday's press conference.