The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame annual classes always elicits passionate reactions, but we here at Notinhalloffame.com have been open on our belief that they are trending in the right direction. Gene Simmons, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, and founding member of KISS slammed the Class of 2021, citing the snubs of nominees, Rage Against the Machine and Iron Maiden.

Sadly, Rage Against The Machine shut out of RR Hall of Fame. The Hall should be ashamed of themselves….

— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) May 13, 2021

Simmons has been critical about the Hall before, first regarding the long wait that his band endured, and then when they did get in, that they only inducted the original four members. RATM member, Tom Morello, was KISS’s inductor, and is a member of the Rock Hall committee, who pushed hard for KISS’s induction.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021 revision of our top 50 Carolina Panthers of all-time.

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 NFL. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

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

This our first revision in two years, with one significant jump and two new entries.

1. Steve Smith

2. Cam Newton

3. Luke Kuechly

4. Julius Peppers

5. Ryan Kalil

You can find the entire list here.

Running Back, Christian McCaffrey rockets up to #22, seventeen spots higher.

Linebacker, Shaq Thompson debuts at #46, and Wide Receiver, D.J. Moore enters at #48.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

The Panthers grabbed D.J. Moore with their 2018 First Round Pick (24th Overall) and the former Maryland Terrapin would have a nice half-decade run in Carolina.  The Wide Receiverhad 788 Yards as a rookie, and from 2019 to 2021, accumulated more than 1,100 Yards annually.  In his last season with Carolina, Moore did not break 1,000 Yards (888), but had 7 Touchdowns, one third of his over total with the team.  He left the Panthers when he was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2022.

Shaq Thompson has played eight years to date for the Carolina Panthers and the former First Rounder from Washington would become a starter during his rookie season.

Playing at Left Linebacker, Thompson became a tackling monster in 2019, where he had his first three-digit tackling year.  Thompson hit that mark again in 2020 (114) Combined Tackles.  "Big NIckel" produced his third straight 100-plus Tackle year in 2021, and he had his best tackling numbers to date with 135 in 2022.

At present, Thompson is entering 2023 with 709 career Tackles, 12.0 Sacks and the best momentum of his life.