Kittle is the best all-around tight end in football right now, and if you could tell me this minute that he would have a 12-year career, I'd expect him to be a Hall of Famer. The Nebraska product nearly won a Super Bowl with the Rams in 2018, but a win with the Bucs and one more All-Pro appearance would greatly help his chances. Join our linker program.
Minnesota Vikings | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site In Week 9, he led the league with 180 yards receiving, and for the year, hes No. Mahomes' rsum -- a league MVP and Super Bowl MVP -- is usually enough to get a player into the Hall of Fame, let alone doing it over two seasons as a starter. I'm right there in the 50/50 range. Its not at all random that hes become a big-time NFL player. The Bucs already have the best receiver duo in the NFL in Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, and the addition of a player like Brown in his prime would make this unit completely unfair. We're in a pass-happy era, but Thomas has more receptions (470) and receiving yards (5,512) than any other players in league history through their first four seasons. Of the nine corners who have debuted since the NFL-AFL merger and made the Hall of Fame, just two had been a first-team All-Pro by their third season, which puts White in good company alongside Rod Woodson and then-corner Ronnie Lott. Collins retired with 70 touchdown receptions, sixth-best total in NFL history at the time and more than Hall of Fame receivers Lynn Swann, Art Monk, Bobby Mitchell, Michael Irvin and John Stallworth. Vinatieri is arguably the greatest clutch kicker in NFL history, twice making last-second field goals to win Super Bowls and also making another famous kick in the Tuck Rule game that helped launch New Englands dynasty. Tom Fears, WR, UCLA, 11th round, 103rd overall: Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor. Players with that sort of injury history early in their careers typically don't have the sort of lengthy peak needed to become a Hall of Famer. Ngakoue has deserved more attention and might get it in a new locale if the Jaguars honor his request and trade the 25-year-old before the season begins. Everyone but Hill is either a lock or extremely likely to make it in. Marriott has since been ordered by a judge to release footage of Irvin and the woman's altercation and the name of the . Art Monk. Gates numbers compare very favorably with those of the nine tight ends in the Hall. The former Panthers quarterback has two other Pro Bowl nods besides that 2015 season, although he hasn't received a nomination since. Edelman's career as a starter really didn't begin until he was 27, so while his case is built on postseason performance, I still don't think he has the regular-season production needed to supplement a case. He looked to be firmly on a Hall trajectory at that point, but over the ensuing five seasons, he has just one Pro Bowl appearance. Witten is also the only Hall of Fame candidate on the Raiders' roster. Watt's last name and presence on a high-profile defense won't hurt.
The Best Wide Receivers of All-Time - Future Football Legends If pro football did what hockey used to and waive the waiting period for the likes of Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, it could be argued Brady deserves the same treatment. Try selecting a different location. XFL Week 3 preview: Can AJ McCarron, Battlehawks continue their fourth-quarter heroics? That might bode well for Suggs case, especially with the premium placed on pass rushers in the modern NFL. Roy Williams is the lone Hall-eligible safety who didn't follow his early success to Canton. Pro Football Reference's Hall of Fame monitor ranks Edelman 110th among wide receivers, and that gives him credit for winning three Super Bowls.
Radio Hall of Fame Announces 2021 Inductees - RADIO ONLINE Larry Fitzgerald on NFL future: 'I just don't have the urge to play Both Bosa and Kittle could make this tier placement look stupid if they have big seasons in 2020. He also has worked at the Austin American-Statesman and Temple Daily Telegram. Vander Esch's chances are stronger than his fellow linebacker because he was a first-round pick and made the Pro Bowl as a rookie, while Smith was a second-round pick and didn't make it until his third campaign. Hilton, DE Justin Houston, DT DeForest Buckner, CB Xavier Rhodes. In the running (40% to 69%): S Eddie Jackson. Donald clinched his gold jacket when he won his second Defensive Player of the Year award. Larry Fitzgerald won't be suiting up for the Arizona Cardinals for the start of the season, but the future Hall of Fame wide receiver stopped just short Friday of announcing his retirement. The Ring of Honor recognizes Vikings legends for their contributions to the success of the team on and off the field. Baker was a first-team All-Pro in 2017 and a two-time Pro Bowler, although his 2017 awards were for special-teams work, which isn't valued as highly by voters. You could make a case Jones belongs in the Likely category based on his 2017 and 2019 seasons, although I'd argue there's a significant gap between those two campaigns and the rest of his career. While guys like Franco Harris and Champ Bailey managed to make it to the Hall with similar starts to their careers, standouts like Chris Hinton, Ricky Watters and Donovan McNabb have come up short without getting to that next level.
Rodrigue: Rams' future in focus during NFL combine as trade, cap Byard was a first-team All-Pro in 2017 when he led the league with eight picks, but despite playing at an upper-echelon level over the ensuing two seasons, he hasn't received the same consideration. But history suggests that his on-field performance makes him a Hall of Fame lock. Guy got some help because the Raiders drafted him with their first-round pick, while Hekker gets extra attention because of his propensity for fakes. This is the big question: How much longer will Evans play and how productive will he be? Action Network makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the information given or the outcome of any game or event. (You might remember Mitchell Trubisky in the Pro Bowl in 2018.) The only thing likely to keep him out of Canton is an electorate that habitually underrates interior offensive linemen in favor of an endless stream of running backs. Wentz's injury history this early in his career also doesn't bode well for his chances of playing deep into his 30s. It might seem surprising to put Hill this high, but he has made it to four Pro Bowls and been a first-team All-Pro twice across his first four seasons. After that, we have players who are Likely to get in, who I estimate have between a 70% and 99% chance of earning induction. Honestly, the biggest factor holding Evans back right now is his team: The Bucs dont attract a lot of national attention, and they havent been to the postseason since 2007. Can Baker Mayfield's game be fixed? Quarterback Drew Brees and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald are the two prominent ballot newcomers. If you were asked to name off the top of your head the three best NFL receivers to enter the league at 21, you might say Moss, Larry Fitzgerald and DeAndre Hopkins. James was a first-team All-Pro as a rookie, and while he missed 11 games in 2019 with a foot injury, he should get back on track in 2020. podcast, future Hall of Fame wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, aware of the Raiders and Jets being interested in trading for the always-grumbling MVP. When I last attempted something like this column in June 2016, I gave Beckham a 50% chance of making the Hall of Fame after two dominant seasons as a pro. In the running (40% to 69%): DE Danielle Hunter, S Harrison Smith. What will the Buffalo Bills do without defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier? He was on the All-2000s team, a three-time first team All-Pro and made eight Pro Bowls. While Pro Bowls and All-Pro awards are hardly gospel, they're the best measure we have of how league observers valued a particular player in his time.
Should the Green Bay Packers Move On From Aaron Rodgers? Mack is entering what is likely to be his final season with the Falcons. It hasn't been for lack of trying on his part, though. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, September 1st at: www.radiohalloffame.com. He probably needs to keep that streak going for a couple more years or rack up another 15-sack campaign to move the needle to Likely. Ingram wasn't very good for extended stretches of time until his fourth season in the league in New Orleans, and while he has made three Pro Bowls since, he hasn't had a top-five season in terms of production or won a Super Bowl.
How Relationship With Reggie Wayne Is Helping South Alabama WR Jalen Archive: Every podcast from Barnwell . Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. Players the Jaguars could target Get started >>. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. NE | NO | NYG | NYJ | PHI | PIT | SF But lack of team success isnt a disqualifier. NFL Nation: Analysis for every pick Also, if a guy enters the league at a young age, he could theoretically have a longer NFL career, which would give him more time in the second half (or post-peak portion) of his career to put up the accumulation stats often needed to bolster a Hall-of-Fame case. Contemporaries Torry Holt and Reggie Wayne also made the finalists cut from 15 to 10 with Johnson, but likewise didnt gain election. What happens next is critical for Gurley, who would have seemed on the road to Canton after taking home Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2015 and adding an Offensive Player of the Year award two years later. Goff took a major step backward in 2019 and doesn't appear to be on the same level as the other top quarterbacks in the conference. Twelve of the 29 Hall-eligible players who have started their careers with three consecutive Pro Bowl nods have made it to Canton. Jalen and Reggie Wayne connected while he was in college, and his uncle has helped him every step of the way since. If he recovers and returns to his 2017-18 form, he still has plenty of time to get back on the Canton track, given that he turned 26 this week. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Author: Nate Greer. So this is really a list of 15. Work to do (10% to 39%): QB Joe Burrow. will Evans play and how productive will he be? He was a Pro Bowler in 2017 and has 37.5 sacks over his first four pro seasons, but he was overshadowed a bit by Campbell over that time frame. I polled my Twitter followers and found that 42.6% of voters thought Rivers was a Hall of Famer. He made it to four Pro Bowls in his first five seasons with the Ravens, and while that's the sort of production we associate with Hall of Famers, he wasn't able to earn a first-team All-Pro nod over that stretch.
The End of In-Person Voting for Future Hall-of-Fame Classes? Maybe Not All of these guys have something in their favor, but it isn't enough to propel them to meaningful consideration as of yet. Wide receiver, Arizona Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald's career stats: 1,432 receptions for 17,492 yards and 121 touchdowns One of the greatest wide receivers of all time, and certainly among the most dominant of his era, Fitzgerald will likely be a first-ballot Hall of Famer sometime around 2026. Timing can matter for players, and it has been weird for Suh. Inside linebackers generally need to become Defensive Player of the Year candidates and earn multiple first-team All-Pro appearances to get serious consideration for Canton, but Edmunds is off to a great start. He probably needs two more All-Pro seasons to finalize his case. Work to do (10% to 39%): OT Terron Armstead, OT Ryan Ramczyk. The Museum of Broadcast Communications also named its first 33 "Legends" inductees, one for each year of the hall's . Joe Fortenbaugh isn't picking Odell Beckham Jr. to lead the NFL in receiving yards, but he expects Kevin Stefanski's scheme to improve the wide receiver's numbers in 2020. He isn't going to catch Jerry Rice, but he's just under 5,000 yards behind Larry Fitzgerald, who ranks second in career receiving yards. In the running (40% to 69%): QB Philip Rivers, G Quenton Nelson, LB Darius Leonard. Former Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, ex-Giants quarterback Eli Manning, ex-Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and longtime Patriots/Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri are the notables on the 2025 ballot. He has made the Pro Bowl in each of his first six seasons, adding four first-team All-Pro appearances. He should have a very strong case for election. Jones now has five consecutive seasons with at least 10 sacks. After all, offensive tackle Joe Thomas was elected Thursday on the first ballot despite never playing a playoff game in 11 seasons with the Browns, who were more often than not the NFLs standard for team ineptitude. Work to do (10% to 39%): DE DeMarcus Lawrence, DT Gerald McCoy, LB Leighton Vander Esch. Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Pro Football Reference Database. Unless Evans has a Powell-esque decline or gets radically overshadowed by a teammate la Holt with Isaac Bruce, then Evans seems to have a good chance to get into the Hall eventually. He shared a receivers room with four Hall-of-Famers and caught balls from a pair of Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks in Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner while playing in eight post-season games . Just six of 32 Hall-eligible winners made it to Canton, although that's going to rise in the years to come as the likes of Charles Woodson and Julius Peppers win enshrinement. It's not too late to play with friends and family. Pictured: Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans (13). He also came up with an interception while winning his first Super Bowl, which helps his case. 1 with seven receiving touchdowns as well as 1,407 air yards and yards after the catch combined (perAirYards.com). The 2020 No.
Rams' best draft class featured two Hall of Fame wide receivers - NFL Given the ages of Gilmore and Patrick Peterson, Ramsey is neck-and-neck with White and Marshon Lattimore as the likely best cornerback in football over the next five years. Some players draw more attention after getting traded or signing a big extension, and Buckner did both this offseason. If he can follow in Patrick Mahomes' footsteps and win a Super Bowl this year, Jackson will have an impeccable rsum to start his career. Future Hall of Fame Wide Receiver Gushes Over Giants' Kadarius Toney 123 Shares By Vinny Somma Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 1:11pm Getty Kadarius Toney #1 of the Florida Gators reacts after. Williams needs a couple of high-profile seasons as the best left tackle in football, which is tough with Tyron Smith around. 1 pick and winning Offensive Rookie of the Year, but that hasn't historically been a helpful combination. Kamara took a step backward last season when he ran into some touchdown regression, but he still did enough to earn his third Pro Bowl appearance in three years. Published: August 24, 2021. It's tough to rack up interceptions in the modern NFL, but Peters has 27 since entering the league, nine more than any other player. Mike Evans is on pace to be a Hall of Fame caliber wide receiver. No offensive lineman is ever a lock when guys like Faneca still aren't enshrined, but Smith plays the most prominent position on the line for the most popular team in the league. Like Hill, if Kelce gets three more seasons with Mahomes, I think he's a Hall of Famer. Skeptics will point out that Rivers was 5-6 in the postseason and only made it as far as one AFC Championship Game, but he's also sixth in NFL history in passing yards and passing touchdowns. Texans great Andre Johnson fell short of election to the Hall of Fame again this year in his second time as a modern-era finalist. The only wide receiver from Carmichael's era who had more TD catches was Paul Warfield, who had 85. Draft a league now and start fresh with a 0-0 record and a shortened schedule. The Notre Dame product probably needs a second one to have a viable shot at Canton. Stanley was a first-team All-Pro last season, which was his first serious recognition as a superstar. When a group consists of you and Jerry Rice, you've done something right. Za'Darius Smith might have been the best pass-rusher in the league last season and has been great over the past two years on a snap-by-snap basis, but he turns 28 in September. But as a running back who has been above average or good seemingly forever, he's getting in. Returning to form and earning a seventh Pro Bowl nod in his first season with the Ravens got Thomas back on track. The three have career numbers that are comparable, and Holt and Wayne had the good fortune of playing with Hall of Fame quarterbacks (Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning) while winning Super Bowls. Landry's hip surgery then looms as a problem; if he can get past it and keep this up, he profiles as a borderline Hall of Famer. If Wagner makes it to another Pro Bowl or two, I don't think Willis' status will matter. He needs only three more years to get to 60,000 passing yards, and if that gets Philip Rivers in, Ryan shouldn't have much trouble. And as much as everyone loves Boldin, he was never dominant enough to keep his former teammate out of Canton. He has two first-team All-Pro appearances over the past five years, but it's likely too little, too late. We still have no idea how Thomas will perform, but if we look back through history, four of the 32 offensive linemen since 1970 who were drafted with a top-five pick have made it to the Hall of Fame. In the running (40% to 69%): RB Christian McCaffrey. Harris has four Pro Bowls and a first-team All-Pro appearance in 2016, but his play has slipped over the past couple of years, and smaller cornerbacks typically don't do well after they turn 30. Gronk has five first-team All-Pro appearances. Hightower and McCourty have made only two Pro Bowls each, and while they'll get a bump for their Super Bowl rings, it's tough to imagine them getting in when guys like Richard Seymour, Tedy Bruschi and Mike Vrabel didn't make it from the first era of Pats Super Bowl winners. Buckner made the Pro Bowl in 2018, but he was otherwise underappreciated during his four seasons in the Bay Area. Both are locks for election. Making sense of Mahomes' deal He led that sports section to three Associated Press Sports Editors top-10 national awards and his work has been honored by APSE and the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. He has eight Pro Bowl appearances, but he has never been a first-team All-Pro, never really been a viable pick as the best quarterback in football and has a total of four MVP votes across 14 seasons as a starter. A big individual season and a few MVP votes in 2020 would be enough to push him into the next category. Let's see whether we can get a sense of who those 50 are right now: Jump to a team: Suggs logged 139 sacks, good for eighth all-time. Panthers impressed by Derek Carr visit Harold Carmichael and Isaac Bruce will enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August. Rockets great and championship coach Rudy Tomjanovich was only inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. In the running (40% to 69%): CB Jalen Ramsey. Sensing that many people might disagree with me, I decided to post a poll on Twitter. Houston probably had the best shot of these four earlier in his career, given that he made four consecutive Pro Bowls and led the league with 22 sacks in 2014, but he hasn't been dominant since dealing with a knee injury between 2015 and 2016. Gurley was a first-team All-Pro in 2017 and 2018, but he wasn't able to clinch a rushing title and didn't look like his old self last season. While James is closer to the 69% end of the spectrum here, Bosa's more toward 40%. Work to do (10% to 39%): RB Le'Veon Bell, LB C.J. Lock (100%): QB Patrick Mahomes. Lock (100%): WR Larry Fitzgerald. Work to do (10% to 39%): QB Carson Wentz, TE Zach Ertz, CB Darius Slay. Charley Taylor. But given the relatively small number of modern-era inductees each year a minimum of three and maximum of five now is a good time to look at the ballot in upcoming years and notable players wholl become eligible for election and may impact Johnsons fate with voters. The first game of the 2023 NFL calendar is . Heres what those guys did in their first five seasons and where they rank among all receivers in the age-21-to-25 cohort. Work to do (10% to 39%): DE Chase Young, S Landon Collins. Carmichael was one of the best wide receivers of his era. I addressed this in my MVP column in July. Seymour made it to seven Pro Bowls and three All-Pro teams and hasn't made it to the Hall of Fame, but Thomas was more conspicuous at safety and was a key member of a legendary defense. Erica Farber. Or write about sports?
How Antonio Brown is hurting his Hall of Fame future, and what the The Cowboys are blessed with two linemen bound for Canton. Rent the Hall. Members of the Ring of Honor are recognized with a banner on the facade of the Metrodome's upper deck, forever living in Vikings lore. Just play along. All 259 picks | Every team's class If his career lasts only six or seven seasons, though, he'll have to be a perennial All-Pro to make it to Canton. In my Week 10 WR/CB matchups piece, I highlight the upcoming matchup between Evans and Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson and say that we might be seeing two Canton-bound players go at each other in a one-on-one heavyweight matchup.. The Hall is forgiving of running backs, and Bell's versatility should age well, but he has missed a lot of time through injuries, suspensions and his 2018 holdout. All rights reserved. We don't talk enough about Hunter, who only has two Pro Bowl nods over his first five seasons. Work to do (10% to 39%): OT Duane Brown. At the same time, Green has missed 23 games over the past two years with injuries. Since the merger, 11 offensive linemen have been named a first-team All-Pro in four consecutive seasons, and nine of them are in the Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, Johnson spent the first 12 years of his career with the expansion Texans, who didnt make the playoffs until his ninth season with quarterback play that ran the gamut from dreadful to above average. On Tuesday, future NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald spoke with the team. Browns star left tackle Joe Thomas and Jets greats Joe . He repeated that feat in 2019, but he'll need to have Campbell's longevity and continue at this level into his mid-30s to have a viable path to the Hall. He doesn't need that sort of individual production to make it to the Hall of Fame, but the guys who made it in without a single first-team All-Pro appearance needed something else. You probably dont need me to tell you that in 2018 Moss became the most recent receiver to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He has three first-team All-Pro nods and a Super Bowl MVP before turning 31. "Nuk" has been a first-team All-Pro in each of his past three seasons, which is the sort of run that earns skill-position players a trip to Canton on their own. Hightower has made huge plays in two Super Bowls, having stuffed Marshawn Lynch at the 1-yard line and strip-sacked Matt Ryan, but he has rarely gotten the regular-season attention he deserves.
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How many future Hall of Famers will play in Super Bowl 55? - WKYC Mathieu is a great player and just turned 28, so he still has plenty of time, but he probably needs four or five more Pro Bowl seasons or a DPOY victory to really get in the discussion. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. He has made five consecutive Pro Bowls and has a first-team All-Pro appearance. By Paul Mclane . Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. In the running (40% to 69%): DE Joey Bosa, S Derwin James. You can't make the Hall of Fame while you're still in pads, but Mike Evans has been making his case over the past six seasons. Barr made four consecutive Pro Bowls from 2015 to 2018, but it'll be tough for him to get the first-team All-Pro votes he'll need for Canton without racking up significant sack totals. Likely (70% to 99%): WR DeAndre Hopkins, CB Patrick Peterson. Collins was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate in 2016 and has three Pro Bowls across his first five seasons. 8/16/2011. Since 1970, 55 players who are eligible for Canton have hit that 8+2 mark, and 52 of them earned enshrinement. A candidate must get 80 percent of the vote to be elected. After being retired for five years, players maintain modern-era eligibility for 20 years, after which their cases go to the seniors committee. Running backs mean less than they have in the past, but Terrell Davis just made the Hall for what really amounted to a three-season stretch as the best running back in football. I think the PED suspensions could help keep out players like Edelman and Lane Johnson, but it's tough to imagine Peterson not making it. Unless he turns things around dramatically this season, he would fall out of the "Work to do" category altogether. Art Monk<br>1980-1995. Even if Hopkins takes a step backward without Deshaun Watson, he's probably just a couple of Pro Bowls from getting in. An interesting case could be made for Frank Gore, who is third all-time in rushing with 16,000 yards in a 16-season career with five teams, but tied for 19th in touchdowns with 81. You could also make the argument that Murray should be up a level after being taken with the No. The star inside linebacker made his first Pro Bowl last season, which is incredible given that it was his age-21 season. Jimmy Smith's peak was among the best ever. Hes top-10 in passing yards and touchdowns, so hell get a gold jacket at some point, if not on the first ballot. He has been one of the five best players at the second-most lucrative position in football over the past five years, and the fact that he was traded for two first-round picks and then delivered a wildly successful season with all of that attention in 2018 helps him. Partner with Us Back. A Super Bowl victory would probably help. Gore is third in career rushing yards, which owes much to the fact that he also ranks third in carries. In part, that has been driven by health; the only other wideout ranking in the top 100 for receiving yards who has played all 80 games over the past five seasons is Larry Fitzgerald.
Nelson doesn't play a high-profile position, but he's off to a great start. Marcedes Lewis has been in the NFL for a long time. The best trade Andy Reid ever made was moving up in the draft for Mahomes in 2017. Jones should make up some of that difference in 2020, and after Fitzgerald retires, he should be able to challenge the Cardinals great for that second spot.
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