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#39 Overall, Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills, #7 Quarterback
2023 Pre-Season Rank #69, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #98, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #117. Peak Period: 2019-23.
Josh Allen is in contention as the top dual-threat Quarterback in football and is least in the conversation as one of the most exciting. That is all fine and good, but Quarterbacks have to win it all, and while Allen has taken the Bills deep into the playoffs multiple times, the Hall looks for more.
Past that, Allen is a two-time leader in Approximate Value, but he is the leader of a rebuilding Bills team. Like Dak Prescott of Dallas, he is a Super Bowl win away from seeing that probable PFHOF bust.
#110 Overall, Aaron Jones: Minnesota Vikings: #8 Running Back
2023 Pre-Season Rank #115, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #122, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #127. Peak Period: 2018-22
After seven seasons with Green Bay, Aaron Jones joined NFC North rival Minnesota, but the Vikings don’t have the same offensive horses from where he left off. Jones’s peak run is likely over, but there are some statistical milestones in his sight on 10,000 Yards From Scrimmage (1.984 away) and is five Rushing Touchdowns away from an even 50.
#101 Overall, Ryan Tannehill, Free Agent, #15 Quarterback
2023 Pre-Season Rank #95, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #95, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #122. Peak Period: 2013-15/2019-20
Tannehill never felt any Hall of Fame potential in Miami, but with Tennessee, he has become a complete package and a Pro Bowler. As quickly as the perception changed and shifted back, in 2023, he was injured, lost his job to Will Levis, and is now a free agent going into 2024. This is not a Hall of Fame run, but that peak with the Titans placed him on a map that looked unattainable at one point.
#79 Overall, Kirk Cousins, Atlanta Falcons, #10 Quarterback
2023 Pre-Season Rank #61, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #87, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #121. Peak Period: 2016-20
Kirk Cousins' run with Minnesota has far surpassed what he did in Washington, with three of his four Pro Bowls coming as a Viking. However, it ended with an injury-plagued season. Nevertheless, Cousins is rapidly approaching 40,000 Yards (39,471) and has 270 Touchdown Passes, so the career numbers are decent, but clearly, he needs more.
For that to happen, it will have to be as an Atlanta Falcon, the team that signed him and took Michael Penix Jr. in the First Round. That leaves him with a cloud hanging over him to begin 2024, and Cousins has to win a ring to have any serious Hall of Fame consideration.