(02-07-2024, 08:14 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-05-2024, 04:36 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: No, I don't. I love him and he was my favorite back, but he wasn't the best running back in the NFL any of the years he played. He might make the seniors recommendation because of the body of his work, but there's just too many contemporaries who are seen as better IMO.

What an odd criteria.
The guys who beat him for the rushing title include Eddie George and Corey Dillon.  Fred should definitely get in before them.

Place among your peers of the era is a critical part of the selection process and both of them have a better resume than he does. He's in a era of great and accomplished running backs and his place as the, at best, 2nd or 3rd best back every year simply doesn't push him into HoF status. George, Dillon, Martin, Wiliams, Tomlinson, Lewis, Holmes, Portis, Alexander, Edge, Faulk...man the list of names in the years he played make it probably the last great era of running backs. When you list him against his contemporaries he just doesn't crack the threshold for me; the Hall doesn't usually take 10 guys from the same position and the same era/decade, so I just think the odds are really stacked against him.

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