The 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class will soon be revealed, and when it is, there will be two noticeable absences: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and the team’s former eight-time Super Bowl-winning head coach, Bill Belichick.
It’s been speculated that cheating scandals — or Belichick’s general rudeness and disdain for speaking with the media — may have led to him being passed over, while others have criticized the process itself, which limits the number of people who can be voted to be inducted on a specific ballot.
Another point of contention is that NFL owners and head coaches are voted for on the same ballot as NFL senior players who, for one reason or another, have yet to be elected into the Hall. This means that it was always highly unlikely that both Belichick and Kraft would be inducted in the same class.
Personally, you won’t find me shedding any tears over Belichick and Kraft getting ghosted by the committee. It’s not that I don’t think they deserve to be in. Of course, they do—I’m just incapable of feeling any semblance of sympathy for anyone who played for the Patriots dynasty.
But what you will see me do is bang the drum about the ongoing travesty of Kansas City Chiefs legend Jamaal Charles not being named amongst the greatest players to ever step foot on the gridiron.
RB Jamaal Charles – 2008-2016
Some may argue that Charles doesn’t have the career numbers or the hardware to support induction into Canton. To them, I present three facts:
1. Charles’ 7,563 career rushing yards are only 44 yards fewer than current Hall of Famer Terrell Davis, who was inducted in 2017.
2. To this day, Charles holds the NFL record for running backs in yards per attempt (5.4) for all running backs with over 1000 rushing attempts for their career. If you remove the carry threshold, he’s still in second place, only trailing former Cleveland Browns fullback/linebacker Marion Motley (who is also in the Hall of Fame), except Charles has nearly 3000 more career rushing yards than Motley did.
3. Charles 11,402 all-purpose yards are more than Hall of Famers Jim Taylor, Earl Campbell, and Gale Sayers.
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