Future Hall of Very Good players
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:45 pm
Out of curiosity,
Are there any players or coaches who are currently active or recently retired (say in the last five years or so) that you think are likely to run through their eligibility without making the Hall of Fame and that years into the future could be seen as Hall of Very Good?
In other words, who’s been really good but that you see getting overlooked? Just curious what you’d all say.
For example, as a Seahawk fan, I think one player from my team who could be viewed as this is Russell Wilson.
He’s got nine pro bowl selections, a second team all pro in 2019 (Lamar Jackson in his great MVP year being the first team), he won a Super Bowl on a team with an above average offense and elite defense, and had some really good years in the second half of the 2010’s but a couple of them were as the Legion of Boom started to show its age, and after the offense seemed to be tilted towards passing more, the team didn’t make it past the divisional round.
The reason I say that I think he’ll be Hall of Very Good someday and not Hall of Fame however is the fact that his last year in Seattle was not that great, and the years in Denver haven’t done him many favors either.
I don’t know how hard voters would hold the last couple years against Russ, but those seem to have soured people’s perception of Russell Wilson at least recently.
One other potential knock against him in his prime years he never received an MVP vote as a quarterback.
To be fair, I recall Cris Collinsworth saying he’d have voted for Russ if he turned his ballot in on time, and you could say that voting was more cutthroat in the 2010’s (correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t there a number of years where only two players got votes?), but the fact remains that award has become very heavily quarterback-centric to the point where I’ve seen fans question whether there should be another award for the best skill position non quarterback in the NFL to recognize some of the great running back and receiver seasons.
If you want to argue that Russell Wilson in those years was the caliber of quarterback who could have received an MVP in a less cutthroat generation, then I could see that argument, but I don’t know if he’s Hall of Very Good.
So who looks to be Hall of Very Good to you, and could Russell Wilson be an example of one such player?
Are there any players or coaches who are currently active or recently retired (say in the last five years or so) that you think are likely to run through their eligibility without making the Hall of Fame and that years into the future could be seen as Hall of Very Good?
In other words, who’s been really good but that you see getting overlooked? Just curious what you’d all say.
For example, as a Seahawk fan, I think one player from my team who could be viewed as this is Russell Wilson.
He’s got nine pro bowl selections, a second team all pro in 2019 (Lamar Jackson in his great MVP year being the first team), he won a Super Bowl on a team with an above average offense and elite defense, and had some really good years in the second half of the 2010’s but a couple of them were as the Legion of Boom started to show its age, and after the offense seemed to be tilted towards passing more, the team didn’t make it past the divisional round.
The reason I say that I think he’ll be Hall of Very Good someday and not Hall of Fame however is the fact that his last year in Seattle was not that great, and the years in Denver haven’t done him many favors either.
I don’t know how hard voters would hold the last couple years against Russ, but those seem to have soured people’s perception of Russell Wilson at least recently.
One other potential knock against him in his prime years he never received an MVP vote as a quarterback.
To be fair, I recall Cris Collinsworth saying he’d have voted for Russ if he turned his ballot in on time, and you could say that voting was more cutthroat in the 2010’s (correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t there a number of years where only two players got votes?), but the fact remains that award has become very heavily quarterback-centric to the point where I’ve seen fans question whether there should be another award for the best skill position non quarterback in the NFL to recognize some of the great running back and receiver seasons.
If you want to argue that Russell Wilson in those years was the caliber of quarterback who could have received an MVP in a less cutthroat generation, then I could see that argument, but I don’t know if he’s Hall of Very Good.
So who looks to be Hall of Very Good to you, and could Russell Wilson be an example of one such player?