One of the more interesting Quarterback careers has ended as Nick Foles has announced his retirement.  

It will be official at Philadelphia’s home opener against the Atlanta Falcons on September 16.

The Eagles drafted Foles in the Third Round in 2012, and the former Arizona Wildcat saw action as a rookie due to Michael Vick’s concussion.  His sophomore had a similar start, as he began the year behind Vick in the depth chart, but a hamstring injury to Vick brought Foles to the starter’s role, where he finished the year with a Pro Bowl and a 27-2 TD-INT Ratio.  Foles regressed in 2014 and was traded to the St. Louis Rams, but that lasted only one year, and he was benched during the season in favor of Case Keenum.

Foles asked for and was granted his release.  He signed with Kansas City, where he was Alex Smith’s backup. After a year, he rejoined Philadelphia and was Carson Wentz’s backup.  Wentz was having a career year and was in MVP consideration, but a torn ACL in Week 14 brought Foles back as their starter.  It looked like the Eagles season was over, but Foles had other ideas. 

Foles led the Eagles to wins in the last two regular season games, and in the playoffs, the QB took his squad to wins over Atlanta and Minnesota.  This placed Philadelphia in the Super Bowl against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, but Foles would lead his team to victory with a three-touchdown/373-yard performance with a receiving touchdown to boot.  Foles was named the MVP of the game, and the City of Brotherly Love finally had their first Super Bowl.

Wentz would reclaim his starting job the next season, and Foles saw limited action.  However, in a game where he started following another Wentz injury, he tied the NFL record with 25 straight completions.  Over the next four years, he bounced around the NFL with stops in Jacksonville, Chicago and Indianapolis. 

Foles overall threw for 14,227 Yards and 82 Touchdowns, which are not close to Hall of Fame numbers, but is a Super Bowl Champion and Super Bowl MVP.

We will add a Nick Foles Football Future Profile in the future here at Notinhalloffame.com, and we wish him the best in his post-playing career.

And thus we come to the lady known as the “Queen Of Rockabilly”, and to earn that nickname she got an early start. Her dad (Tom Jackson) played in local bands; by 4, Wanda was singing with the bands and by 6, Tom had gotten her into guitar lessons. A few years later, she was ignoring classes to focus on her music. She won a contest and got her own 15 radio segment. When she was a teenager, her radio show was heard by Hall-Of-Fame inductee Hank Thompson. Thompson got her a record deal and her first big hit song while still in high school. After joining a tour with up-and-comer (and eventual 1998 Hall Of Fame inductee) Elvis Presley, Wanda started incorporating more rock-and-roll styles. When she signed a new record contract, she recorded both country and rock music. This allowed her transition to rockabilly and got a number of hits. Although her mainstream success faded out when the British Invasion came in, she got a couple more country hits after that. Then once hits dried up, she began recording Christian music. Because of her wide-ranging career success, the number of halls-of-fame she has been inducted into are numerous, including Oklahoma Hall of Fame, International Gospel Hall Of Fame and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2009. But no Country Music Hall Of Fame induction yet and she would be a great selection to induct while she is still alive.

Floyd Elliot Wray (born in August 1960) already had a good start in knowing what the music business was like when he was just a child. His mother, Lois Wray, was a local musician around Arkansas but in the 1950’s she had also been an opening act for Sun Records artists (including Country Music Hall Of Fame inductees Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley). When Lois started doing her own performances as a solo musician, she would sometimes bring Floyd and his brother Scott on stage to sing harmony for her. By the 1980’s, Floyd and Scott started their own country-rock group called the Wray Brothers Band. They signed with Mercury Records, but after four failed singles they were dropped and disbanded. After considering leaving music altogether, Floyd stuck it out. He changed his name to Collin Raye and signed with Epic Records. He got his first number one song in 1991 with “Love Me”, which has gone on to become a classic played at an endless number of weddings. Between 1991 and 2000, Collin released five albums (4 of which went platinum) and 27 singles (of which only six missed the top ten). Collin’s got the hits, the awards and the sales. He unfortunately doesn’t have the name recognition that other artist of the 1990’s have, so it’ll be a long time before he’s even considered.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Tennessee Titans.

As for all of our top 50 players in football, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Football League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Titans had a losing record of 6-11 and are in rebuild mode.  There were only two elevations and no new entries.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Bruce Matthews
2. Warren Moon
3. Mike Munchak
4. Earl Campbell
5. Robert Brazil

You can find the entire list here.

Running Back Derrick Henry, whose run with Tennessee ended last season, moved up to #9 from #14.

Of note, Kevin Byard, who was traded to Philadelphia during the season, remained at #28.

Quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who is currently a free agent only moved up one spot to #48.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.