2024 Pre-Season Rank #75, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #120, 2022 Pre-Season Rank: #140. Peak Period: 2020-24

Joe Thuney is finally getting his due as one of the top pass protectors in football, and you can ask both Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes how good he is at it.  Thuney has been a starter in four Super Bowl Championships (two for New England and two for Kansas City) and is on a three-year run of Pro Bowls, and was a First Team All-Pro in the last two.  He now joins Chicago to lead their O-Line, and what he does in the Windy City will decide if he is a Hall of Famer or not.

2024 Pre-Season Rank #54, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #86, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #90, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #95, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #122.  Peak Period: 2011-15

Brown enters the season as a Free Agent, and if his career has come to an end, has he done enough to become a Hall of Fame inductee?

He likely hasn’t, bit leaves behind 220 Games Played (218 Starts) and should be acknowledged in any Houston Texans Hall of Fame.  He could still find work in 2025 as a veteran presence on a contending team.

2024 Pre-Season Rank #8, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #28, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #35, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #53.  Peak Period: 2019-23

Tyreek Hill was a three-time First Team All-Pro and Super Bowl Champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, but they traded the talented Wide Receiver to Miami for a slew of draft picks.  Miami then made him the highest-paid WR in the league, and in his first two seasons, Hill was the game’s top receiver, achieving over 1,700 Yards in both campaigns, and leading the NFL in Receiving Yards (1,799) and Receiving Touchdowns (13) in 2023.    He was also the runner-up for the Offensive Player of the Year,

Last season was a different story for Hill, who, for the first time in his career, was not chosen for the Pro Bowl.  He had a lackluster year by his standards (959 Yards/6 TDs), and whispers of his decline were in the air.

Still, he enters 2025 with 11,098 career Yards and 82 TDs, and is capable of a bounce-back year, and Hill’s candidacy might need that as off-field issues follow him wherever he goes, and that does turn off some of the voters (right or wrong). 

2024 Pre-Season Rank #69, 2023 Pre-Season #77, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #77, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #71, Last Year’s Rank #62.  Peak Period: 2014-16/18-19.

OBJ’s three Pro Bowls were in his first three seasons, and while his last Pro Bowl was in 2016, Beckham Jr. did have 1,000-yard-plus campaigns in 2018 and 2019.  Since then, injuries have accumulated, and he is no longer the same player who made the most incredible regular-season catch in history.  2021 was a year of agony and ecstasy for Beckham Jr., who seemed rejuvenated after a mid-season pickup by the Rams, where he won the Super Bowl. However, in that game, while he scored a Touchdown, he also tore his ACL.  

After sitting out the 2022 season to rehab, Beckham Jr. played a year in Baltimore with a respectable 565 Yards, but only had 55 Yards in nine Games in Miami the year after.  He starts this season without a team, and his Hall of Fame resume appears to end with an incredible start with a Touchdown catch and ACL tear in a Super Bowl win.