The Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame’s class of 2024 will formally be inducted on Aug. 3.
With lower than a month till the annual occasion in Canton, Ohio, we’re inspecting which NFL gamers (previous and current) we expect will sooner or later obtain an analogous honor.
Listed here are three Philadelphia Eagles who ought to ultimately obtain soccer immortality:
Defensive deal with Fletcher Cox
Cox got here to Philadelphia because the Twelfth-overall decide within the 2012 NFL Draft and spent his whole 12-year profession with the Eagles. Earlier than asserting his retirement within the offseason, Cox appeared in 188 profession regular-season video games, third-most behind Brandon Graham (195) and fellow retiree Jason Kelce (193).
He leaves holding the franchise document for sacks (70) and Professional Bowl appearances (six) by a defensive deal with. He helped the Eagles win Tremendous Bowl LII in 2017 and adopted it up with a career-best 10.5 sacks in 2018, incomes his first All-Professional nomination.
In response to Reuben Frank of nbcsportsphiladelphia.com, Cox is one in every of solely three inside linemen to have six Professional Bowls, 70 sacks and a Tremendous Bowl win. The others are Aaron Donald and Warren Sapp.
That and a spot on the NFL’s All-Decade staff for the 2010’s needs to be sufficient to hold Cox to Canton.
Heart Jason Kelce
Kelce didn’t make the all-decade staff, however he made seven Professional Bowls with six All-Professional nominations in 13 years as an Eagle. Arriving in Philadelphia as a sixth-round decide in 2011, it didn’t take lengthy for the undersized guard to win over the town with dominant play and an outsized character.
A day-one starter for head coach Andy Reid in 2011, Kelce broke Jon Runyan’s staff document of 144 consecutive begins final season, ending his profession with 156 straight begins. Like Cox, Kelce helped Philadelphia win its first Tremendous Bowl in 2017, holding the Patriots with no sack whereas serving to the staff’s operating backs rush for 164 yards towards Invoice Belichick’s protection.
Of the seven facilities already within the Corridor of Fame, solely Jim Langer and Mike Webster have Tremendous Bowl rings.
After all, Langer or Webster by no means gave a speech like this:
