The Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame’s class of 2023 will formally be inducted on Aug. 3.
With lower than a month till the annual occasion in Canton, Ohio, we’re inspecting which gamers — previous and current — on the league’s 32 groups we predict will in the future obtain the same honor.
Listed here are three Tennessee Titans who ought to finally obtain soccer immortality:
Derrick Henry
There was a four-year interval from 2019-22 the place Henry was the unquestioned No. 1 operating again within the NFL. He got here inside 79 yards of breaking the NFL’s single-season speeding document in 2020 and he grew to become simply the third participant since 2000 to steer the league in speeding in consecutive years (2019, 2020.)
Henry owns a number of NFL data together with most speeding yards in first 4 playoff video games (561) and most profession video games with 200 or extra speeding yards (six), and he’s the one participant to hurry for 180 or extra yards in three straight video games.
His identify can be on many of the Titans speeding data together with most speeding touchdowns (90), most 100-yard video games (41), most single-season speeding yards (2,027) and most speeding yards in a single sport (250.) Few would argue he has a Corridor of Fame resume, and after signing two-year take care of the Ravens, he’s nonetheless acquired time to pad his stats.
Derrick Mason
Mason’s profession, which incorporates eight 1,000-yard seasons, 5 seasons with 80 or extra catches and 66 complete touchdowns, it’s exhausting to justify him solely having one All-Professional choice and two Professional Bowls. His 943 receptions ranks nineteenth all-time (greater than HOFers Artwork Monk, Steve Largent and Michael Irvin) and his 12,061 receiving yards ranks twenty ninth (greater than Irvin, Calvin Johnson and Lance Alworth.)
Mason closed out his Titans profession with 4 straight seasons of 73 or extra catches and 1,000 or extra yards earlier than going onto three 1,000-yard seasons in six years with the Ravens. He set what was then an NFL document for all-purpose yards in a season in 2000, and he’s the one participant in NFL historical past with each 10,000 receiving yards and 5,000 return yards in a profession.
Jeffery Simmons
This one is extra of a projection, however Simmons is definitely on a HOF path. At age 26, he already has two All-Professional alternatives and two Professional Bowls, and he’s already thought-about to be a top-five defensive sort out within the NFL.
Simmons has averaged 52.5 pressures, 37.8 hurries and 6 sacks per season during the last 4 years, and he appears to be on the cusp of his first season with double-digit sacks. The anchor of the Titans’ line of defense, Simmons ranks proper outdoors the highest 15 in sacks all-time amongst Titans.
If he has even simply common seasons for the subsequent decade, he may simply crack Tennessee’s prime 5 in profession sacks, pressures and tackles for loss.
