In his final year at Kentucky (2018), Josh Hines-Allen was the best Linebacker in the nation, winning the Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Jack Lambert Trophy, and SEC Defensive Player of the Year.  This success propelled him to the seventh overall pick in the 2019 Draft, landing with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Hines-Allen was an All-Rookie and Pro Bowl Selection, becoming the first Jaguar rookie to make the Pro Bowl.  He also led his team in Sacks (10.5).  His second season was disappointing as he missed half of it with an injury, but the pass-rusher would rebound, and in 2023, Hines-Allen had career-highs in Sacks (17.5), Tackles for Loss (17), and Quarterback Hits (33).  This season would earn him his second Pro Bowl.

Entering 2025 with 53 career Sacks, Hines-Allen has an excellent shot to break the top 20 in next year's ranking.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have been around since 1995, but they did not get their true franchise Quarterback until they drafted Trevor Lawrence with the number one pick in 2021.

The Jags struggled in Lawrence’s rookie year, a far cry from his success at Clemson, where he led the Tigers to a National Championship.  As a rookie, Lawrence threw for 3,641 Yards but only won three games and threw a league-leading 17 Interceptions.  The Jags improved around Lawrence in 2022, as did the QB, who had 4,113 Yards and a TD-INT ratio of 25-8.  Individually, he went to the Pro Bowl and took Jacksonville to the playoffs.   In 2023, he again had over 4,000 Passing Yards, but was injured for most of the 2024 Season and was not a star when he did play, and enters this year at a crossroads.

Will Lawrence be a top-five QB in 2025, or have we seen the best of what he has to offer at the pro level.

1964 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you to all who participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are still determining what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the first 16 years thus far.

For “1964,” a Preliminary Vote with close to 100 players whose playing career ended by 1955. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters will be asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

Please note that a significant change occurred “years ago,” allowing voters to submit less than the allotted spots. 

30 Votes took place

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates they have been removed from future ballots

This is for the “Senior Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

Next week, we will announce the Semi-Finalists for the 1964 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project.

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 Green Bay Packers.

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 Packers returned to the playoffs but were a first-round exit.  Despite the success of the 2023 Season, the long tenure of the Packers did not give us a new entrant, though two players came close to joining the Top 50.  As such, there were no changes, but we always acknowledge that we looked at the previous year.

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

1. Aaron Rodgers
2. Brett Favre
3. Don Hutson
4. Forrest Gregg
5. Bart Starr

You can find the entire list here.

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