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Steve Wisniewski made eight Pro Bowls teams, was 1st Team All-Pro twice, and 2nd Team All-Pro six times in 13 years and missed only two games. Why can't he make a breakthrough???

Ness wrote:Steve Wisniewski . . . was 1st Team All-Pro twice, and 2nd Team All-Pro six times

Agree with you, but IMO since the HOF uses more than the AP All-Pro teams
another fair tally is he was First-team All-pro 5 times with one being consenses

First-team All-Pro - 1990, 1991 (consensus), 1992, 1993, 1994
Second-team All-pro 1995, 1996, 2000
All-AFC - 1991-96, 2000
Pro Bowl - 1990-1995, 1997, 2000

In some ways similar to Michael dean perry, would make SN All-pro
team, one that had an element of players/coaches votes

Also know he's graded high by at least one scouting company
in enough years to be HOF in their eyes

cannot say "stonewalled" but overlooked. In the hurry to
get skill players in, IMO, there are plenty of blockers
being left out in cold

JohnTurney wrote:

Ness wrote:Steve Wisniewski . . . was 1st Team All-Pro twice, and 2nd Team All-Pro six times

Agree with you, but IMO since the HOF uses more than the AP All-Pro teams
another fair tally is he was First-team All-pro 5 times with one being consenses

First-team All-Pro - 1990, 1991 (consensus), 1992, 1993, 1994
Second-team All-pro 1995, 1996, 2000
All-AFC - 1991-96, 2000
Pro Bowl - 1990-1995, 1997, 2000

In some ways similar to Michael dean perry, would make SN All-pro
team, one that had an element of players/coaches votes

Also know he's graded high by at least one scouting company
in enough years to be HOF in their eyes

cannot say "stonewalled" but overlooked. In the hurry to
get skill players in, IMO, there are plenty of blockers
being left out in cold

Too lazy to look into it, but I do wonder who is already enshrined that has that amount of years and possible games played in addition to accolades. Bruce Matthews has to be at the top, and then it goes down from there. I think Steve missing two games in 13 years should be a huge bonus in his favor. Really surprised he's not in, and the clock is ticking down to him becoming a senior candidate soon.

He is certainly deserving but like Tom Nalen, has fell through the cracks. Interior linemen on both sides of the ball take forever to get elected and other offensive guards like Evans, Mankins, Yanda and Martin in the future, may go through the same agony of waiting ...

I certainly remember him as being one of the best guards in the NFL at the time. I think part of the problem is that those making the decisions might not have been watching football back then or were at least knowledgeable about offensive linemen. That kind of information back then wasn't as available as it is today.