Steve Smith 1st year eligible for HOF. list included for 1st year eligibles.

[CRA]

1 hour ago, Ace420 said:

As far as I can remember, wilfork is the only one of this new class to win a superbowl. Not having a ring was always going to be Steve's biggest weakness concerning HOF chances.

I think he has a great chance, but it needs to happen soon I think as the voters will need to remember smith's physicality and his confidence and personality to understand his greatness.

Mathis got a ring

[TheBigKat]

Just ran into him

 

 Sitting 2 rows ahead of me on flight to HOU from CLT

 

 

[Catsfan69]

He's by far the best player on that list.

 

He should be 1st ballot. 

[Wes21]

Why is Jake Long on the list?

[BrianS]

That's just the 10 first year eligible.  Here's the whole list:

 

QUARTERBACKS
Randall Cunningham, Jake Delhomme, Boomer Esiason, Jeff Garcia, Dave Krieg, Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair

RUNNING BACKS
Shaun Alexander, Mike Alstott (FB), Tiki Barber, Earnest Byner, Larry Centers (FB), Corey Dillon, Eddie George, Priest Holmes, Steven Jackson, Jamal Lewis, Eric Metcalf (also WR/PR/KR), Lorenzo Neal (FB), Fred Taylor, Herschel Walker (also KR), Ricky Watters, Brian Westbrook

WIDE RECEIVERS
Anquan Boldin, Troy Brown (also PR/KR), Donald Driver, Henry Ellard (also PR), Devin Hester (also PR/KR), *Torry Holt, Joe Horn, Andre Johnson, Chad Johnson, Derrick Mason, Muhsin Muhammad, Andre Rison, Jimmy Smith, Rod Smith, Steve Smith, Hines Ward, *Reggie Wayne, Wes Welker

TIGHT ENDS
Dallas Clark, Ben Coates, Brent Jones, Heath Miller, Wesley Walls

OFFENSIVE LINEMEN
Willie Anderson (T), Matt Birk (C), *Tony Boselli (T), Lomas Brown (T), Ruben Brown (G), D’Brickashaw Ferguson (T), Kevin Glover (C/G), Jordan Gross (T), Olin Kreutz (C), Jake Long (T), Nick Mangold (C), Logan Mankins (G), Jesse Sapolu (C/G), Jeff Saturday (C), Chris Snee (G), Brian Waters (G), Richmond Webb (T), Erik Williams (T), Steve Wisniewski (G)

DEFENSIVE LINEMEN
John Abraham (DE also LB), *Jared Allen (DE), La’Roi Glover (DT/NT), Casey Hampton (DT/NT), Robert Mathis (DE), Leslie O’Neal (DE), Michael Dean Perry (DT/DE), Simeon Rice (DE), *Richard Seymour (DT), Justin Smith (DE), Neil Smith (DE), Greg Townsend (DE/LB/DT/NT), Justin Tuck (DE), Vince Wilfork (DT/NT), Kevin Williams (DT), Bryant Young (DT)

LINEBACKERS
Cornelius Bennett, Lance Briggs, Tedy Bruschi, London Fletcher, Seth Joyner, Willie McGinest (also DE), *Sam Mills, Hardy Nickerson Sr., Takeo Spikes, Pat Swilling (also DE), *Zach Thomas, DeMarcus Ware, Patrick Willis

DEFENSIVE BACKS
Eric Allen (CB), *Ronde Barber (CB/S), Dre Bly (DB), *LeRoy Butler (S), Nick Collins (S), Antonio Cromartie (CB), Merton Hanks (S), Rodney Harrison (S), Albert Lewis (CB), Tim McDonald (S), Allen Rossum (DB), Asante Samuel (CB), Bob Sanders (S), Charles Tillman (CB), Troy Vincent (CB), Adrian Wilson (S), Darren Woodson (S)

PUNTERS/KICKERS
Gary Anderson (K), Jeff Feagles (P), John Kasay (K), Sean Landeta (P), Ryan Longwell (K), Reggie Roby (P), Matt Turk (P)

SPECIAL TEAMS
Josh Cribbs (KR/PR also WR), Mel Gray (PR/KR also WR), Brian Mitchell (KR/PR also RB), Steve Tasker (ST also WR)

[jasonluckydog]

1 hour ago, joemac said:

Anybody know when Luke is eligible to go in?

I believe he can get in now, they open at 8 and close at 5. 

[joemac]

Just now, jasonluckydog said:

I believe he can get in now, they open at 8 and close at 5. 

[LinvilleGorge]

I think he gets in but I don't think he's first ballot. They tend to reserve first ballot entries for the guys in GOAT conversations.

[L-TownCat]

2 hours ago, Ace420 said:

As far as I can remember, wilfork is the only one of this new class to win a superbowl. Not having a ring was always going to be Steve's biggest weakness concerning HOF chances.

I think he has a great chance, but it needs to happen soon I think as the voters will need to remember smith's physicality and his confidence and personality to understand his greatness.

Only 2 players in NFL history have more yards from scrimmage than Smitty. 

Jerry Rice and Tim Brown.

[ACobra289]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I think he gets in but I don't think he's first ballot. They tend to reserve first ballot entries for the guys in GOAT conversations.

I think Steve is underrated. Put him with an above average QB for most of his career and if he doesn't miss time being injured, he is in the conversation for GOAT.

[L-TownCat]

1 minute ago, ACobra289 said:

I think Steve is underrated. Put him with an above average QB for most of his career and if he doesn't miss time being injured, he is in the conversation for GOAT.

How about this?  With no real QB, no #2 to take coverage, a run 1st, ball control offense, Smitty rewrote the record books.  Triple Crown winner.  Hadn't been done for 13 years when Steve did it.  Far as I know, hasn't happened since.

Have we mentioned the rules changes?  You know they used to just knock the poo out of a WR in the air?

[Basbear]

IN, just not the 1st ballot. His numbers will look "average" in ten years in this current passing league setting...

[kungfoodude]

4 hours ago, Captain Morgan said:

 

can you imagine is Sam and Steve both got in this year?  

I don't want to imagine this because of all those commercials that warn about a 4 hour boner.

[WUnderhill]

Antonio Cromartie and Jake Long? How do they decide nominees?