Your Potential Starting Lineup (for the NFL Hall of Fame, That Is)

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Eligible players, future years….


The list includes notable first-time eligible players for the next Hall of Fame class and those who qualify in future classes.

2025

Terrell Suggs
Antonio Gates
Luke Kuechly
Eli Manning
Marshawn Lynch
Darren Sproles
Vernon Davis
Marshal Yanda
Eric Weddle
Adam Vinatieri

2026

Philip Rivers
Jason Witten
Maurkice Pouncey
Drew Brees
Julian Edelman
LeSean McCoy

2027

Ben Roethlisberger
Rob Gronkowski
Frank Gore
Alex Mack

2028

J.J. Watt
Tom Brady

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Baltimore fans: A number of former Ravens are already eligible, including Haloti Ngata, Matt Birk, Bart Scott, Todd Heap, Derrick Mason, Willis McGahee, Ricky Williams, and Matt Stover:

About Joe Platania

Veteran Ravens correspondent Joe Platania is in his 45th year in sports media (including two CFL seasons when Batlimore had a CFL team) in a career that extends across parts of six decades. Platania covers sports with insight, humor, and a highly prescient eye, and that is why he has made his mark on television, radio, print, online, and in the podcast world. He can be heard frequently on WJZ-FM’s “Vinny And Haynie” show, alongside ex-Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato and Bob Haynie. A former longtime member in good standing of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Pro Football Writers of America, Platania manned the CFL Stallions beat for The Avenue Newspaper Group of Essex (1994 and ’95) and the Ravens beat since the team’s inception — one of only three local writers to do so — for PressBox, The Avenue, and other local publications and radio stations. A sought-after contributor and host on talk radio and TV, he made numerous appearances on “Inside PressBox” (10:30 a.m. Sundays), and he was heard weekly for eight seasons on the “Purple Pride Report,” WQLL-AM (1370). He has also appeared on WMAR-TV’s “Good Morning Maryland” (2009), Comcast SportsNet’s “Washington Post Live” (2004-06), and WJZ-TV’s “Football Talk” postgame show — with legend Marty Bass (2002-04). Platania is the only sports journalist in Maryland history to have been a finalist for both the annual Sportscaster of the Year award (1998, which he won) and Sportswriter of the Year (2010). He is also a four-time Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association award winner. Platania is a graduate of St. Joseph’s (Cockeysville), Calvert Hall College High School, and Towson University, where he earned a degree in Mass Communications. He lives in Cockeysville, MD.



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