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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Welker averaged 112 receptions, 1243 yards, and 6 TDs during his 6 years with the Pats.
Michael Irvin averaged 82 receptions, 1286.5 yards, and 6.25 over the last 8 years of his career..
Marvin Harrison averaged 103.25 receptions, 1403 yards and 12.625 TDs from 1999 through 2006.
I think that what will work against Welker is how Great Tom Brady is. The committee will look at what Julian Edelman has done since Welker left and use that to discount Welker.
I think that Welker is a borderline HOF candidate that will probably not get in..
He has the numbers but not the cache.
If he had two Lombardis.....whole different discussion.
Someone who I do think is HOF worthy from our past teams is Seymour.
I don't think he has the numbers to be honest with you. His TD totals and YPC average work against him. But all his numbers are great, but not outstanding.
He is 47th in most receiving years in history (guys still in the league like Boldin and Roddy White have far more). He is tied for 114th in most receiving TDs with a bunch of guys. Welker isn't even ranked in the top 250 YPC average of all time.
The numbers actually work against Welker. It is his intangibles that will have to get him in if he has a chance at all. People will have to argue how he turned a nothing two yard quick slant into a 15 yard gainer by making LBers twice his size bounce right off of him. Unfortunately, it is numbers and not the intangibles that get people in the Hall.
He was great but will come up short..
I think Seymour should get in, but he is hurt because he played with the Patriots and he sacrificed personal glory for team. The guy would be a guaranteed first ballot if he played for a team where he was allowed to just pin his ears back and go after the QB on passing downs. He didn't do that with the Pats.
7 time pro bowler and all 2000's decade team will help him with credentials.I think Seymour should get in, but he is hurt because he played with the Patriots and he sacrificed personal glory for team. The guy would be a guaranteed first ballot if he played for a team where he was allowed to just pin his ears back and go after the QB on passing downs. He didn't do that with the Pats.
I think with receivers, numbers mean something but not everything. As you say there are a litny of WRs that have more receptions and yards more than WW but a) are not in the HoF b/c their careers were unremarkable and b) have not won.
Look at all the receivers with higher than WW and you'll follow my point.
If WW won 2 SBs he'd get in.
Yes. Guys like Allworth, Bilitnikoff have less stats but won in a different era.Stats are bigger than you think. Yes, there are WRs in the Hall with lesser stats than Welker, but that is misleading. Most of them have lesser stats because of the era they played in. Welker played in the era where the rules are skewed to benefit the passing game and teams have de-emphasized the running game.
You take some of these Hall of Fame receivers of the 70s and 80s and give them the same conditions as receivers have gotten over the last 10 years and their numbers would be far better than they are.