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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/bilbobiggers on 2024-03-31 01:33:25.

I wanted to see what the Hall of Fame could look like in a few years and project future inductees, so I decided to chart every position. Please see below for details on how I went about this.

We’ll start with the wide receivers.

The “logjam” of WRs claiming a HoF spot is pretty well-known and you can see it clearly here. Torry Holt, Reggie Wayne and Steve Smith should all arguably be in. Larry Fitzgerald, Antonio Brown and Julio Jones will join the pileup soon. I was surprised to see Tyreek Hill already closing in on the top tier, and he will likely be in the conversation when his time comes.

JERRY RICE IS MISSING. This is on purpose. Rice is such a huge outlier that it would render the rest of the chart pointless. I made a separate version with him, you can check it out here.

SOME DETAILED EXPLANATIONS

I used Pro Football Reference’s Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFm), a metric designed to estimate a player’s HoF merits based on statistical output and individual accolades. I took every player who has a score of 25 or higher and sorted them by the year when they last played.

(Why 25? PFR states that “a score of 100 is around the average modern-era HOF inductee for each position”, so I figured 25% of it would be a good place to start).

Only players of the so-called “modern era” are featured because I hoped to focus on how today’s HoF voters think like. The “modern era” is made up of the players who finished their careers in the last 25 years. Players before this time fall under the jurisdiction of the Seniors Committee.

Colors indicate status:

  • HoF: already in the Hall of Fame
  • Elg: eligible for induction
  • Ret: retired but not yet eligible
  • Act: active player

Hovering over each player’s dot will give you some info (HOFm, All-Pro 1st teams, Pro Bowls). It gets cluttered with all the labels, especially towards the bottom, so I added a filter so you can look for individual players who are featured. You can also click on each color to remove it from the chart entirely (click again to re-include it).

Of course a lot more goes into Hall of Fame arguments. This is just my attempt to spread out the cards a little bit.

(This is a reworked version of a chart I posted here a few weeks ago. It happened to be the first day of free agency, so some people advised me to try again later)