(02-07-2024, 09:06 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

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

I think you misunderstood me.
His "place among peers of his era" is questionable based on year to year stats.  Granted.
But he is objectively better than the guys who beat him on those year to year stats though.  He did it for more years, with fewer carries, and inferior o-line support.
If you look at the entire decade of 1998 to 2008, in my estimation, only Tomlinson did it better.  Edge was close, maybe a little better maybe a little worse.  And Edge is in the hall but not Fred.
I just don't think those year to year rankings should mean much.

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