I dunno, based on the season so far I think there’s a good chance Rivers passes him up in TDs and he never reaches #6. He probably will in yards though before Ben or someone else passes him up in that category, though five years from now I doubt Eli is still #6.
He’ll eventually get in, and I’d like Andrew Whitworth to get in too. Also, AJ Green will likely make it.
At the risk of being a broken record, a new, relevant article: Eli Manning Is Profoundly Mediocre | FiveThirtyEight
Ya know, at some point they’re going to have to change the HOF to “Golden era HOFers” and “Modern era HOFs” because there are people who will go to the HOF that don’t really deserve it (Eli), but their numbers are all top 10s simply because of when they played. Hell, we’re already seeing fringe guys (Terrell Davis) make it in because of the eras and systems in which they played.
Not everyone can be a hall of famer!
It’s why “counting numbers” (like passing yards and receptions), by themselves, are a deceptive metric for determining whether a player is Hall-worthy.
I read Peter King’s work on SI.com regularly (and, Paul Zimmerman, before his strokes); both of them are / were Hall voters, and both have acknowledged the difficulty in determining how to measure the value / performance of a receiver or QB now, because the numbers feel so inflated.
Fortunately, I think that most of the voters are wise enough to to look beyond the pure numbers. If Eli makes it in, it’ll be those two Super Bowl rings (regardless of the relative role he played in the Giants winning those championships), and playing in the biggest media market, that fuel it.
It’s true that Davis played in a system in which the Broncos were able to get very good production out of a number of running backs. He had three extraordinary seasons before his injury, which were, IMO, the alchemy of his own talent along with that system. I don’t think he made it in because of the effectiveness of the Broncos run game; I think he made it in because of those few transcendent seasons. And, it’s worth noting that he’d been eligible for the Hall for a decade before he made it in; clearly, the voters struggled with whether or not that peak was high enough to counter his short career. (Personally, I don’t think that it was, but I also suspect that they may have looked at Gale Sayers’ induction as a precedent.)
He sure is, for the “Rapist Hall Of Fame”.
Not a chance. He got what, 2 rapes? 3? Bill Cosby has 20 times that number.
Hey, we need to consider Darren Sharper first!