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14 former Giants among senior nominees for Hall of Fame Class of 2025

14 former New York Giants, including Phil Simms and Carl Banks, are senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025.

In an effort to correct the sins of the past, the Pro Football Hall of Fame revamped their process when it comes to reconsidering players whose eligibility has expired.

Starting this year, an 11-person panel will review a list of 183 players for consideration for enshrinement. Only three will be nominated for induction in this year’s class.

To be considered in this group, each former player last could have appeared in a professional football game in the 1999 season.

For the New York Giants, there are 14 names up for consideration, including quarterbacks Phil Simms, Charlie Conerly and Jeff Hostetler, running back Ottis Anderson, linebacker Carl Banks and tight end Mark Bavaro who will get another look from voters.

Other Giants on the list include running back Herschel Walker, flanker Homer Jones, end Del Shofner, defensive linemen Rosey Grier and Leonard Marshall, defensive backs Jimmy Patton and Everson Walls, and punter Sean Landeta.

With the Giants celebrating their 100th season this year, it would be fitting if they could land a player on the finalists list later this fall.

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Several ex-Giants on ballot for College Football Hall of Fame class of 2025

Several former members of the New York Giants, including Michael Strahan, are on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame.

The National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame announced the 2025 ballot last week, and several retired members of the New York Giants are on it.

Former Giants on the ballot include Keith Elias, a NFF National Scholar-Athlete who played running back for the team from 1994-1996.

Also on the ballot are wide receiver Herman Moore, punter Sean Landeta, quarterback Alex Tanney, linebackers coach Bill McGovern, and defensive end Michael Strahan.

1992 First Team All-American and Division I-AA Defensive Player of the Year…1992 Black College Defensive Player of the Year and two-time SWAC Defensive Player of the Year…Texas Southern’s all-time leader in career (41.5) and single-season (19 in 1992) sacks.

The 2025 class will be inducted at the 67th annual NFF Awards Dinner on Dec. 9, 2025, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

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17 former Eagles nominated for 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame class

Brian Westbrook, Donovan McNabb, and Eric Allen are among the 17 former Philadelphia Eagles nominated for the 2023 Pro Football Hall of Fame class

The NFL just announced that nine players in their first year of eligibility are among the list of 129 Modern-Era Nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.

The list of first-time nominees includes running back Chris Johnson, Philadelphia native Jahri Evans, offensive linemen Joe Thomas, defensive lineman Dwight Freeney, linebackers NaVorro Bowman and James Harrison, defensive backs Kam Chancellor and Darrelle Revis, and punter Shane Lechler.

The list of Modern-Era Nominees will be reduced to 25 Semifinalists in November and, from there, to 15 Finalists whose names will be announced in early January.

Here’s the list of 14 former Eagles among the nominees.

8 Giants among modern-era Pro Football Hall of Fame nominees

8 former members of the New York Giants are among 129 modern-era nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2023.

Eight former New York Giants are among the list of 129 Modern-Era Nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.

The list of potential inductees consists of “67 offensive players, 50 defensive players and 12 special teams players. The list of Modern-Era Nominees will be reduced to 25 Semifinalists in November and, from there, to 15 Finalists whose names will be announced in early January.”

Four of the Giants’ eight nominees played their entire careers with Big Blue: running back Tiki Barber, defensive lineman Justin Tuck, linebacker Jessie Armstead and offensive lineman Chris Snee.

The other four played part of their careers here with the Giants: punters Jeff Feagles and Sean Landeta, offensive tackle Lomas Brown and kick returner Brian Mitchell.

Per the Pro Football Hall of Fame:

Nineteen Finalists will be presented to the full 49-member Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee during its annual meeting to choose the Class of 2023. Those candidates will consist of 15 Modern-Era Players Finalists and the recently named Seniors Finalists Joe Klecko, Chuck Howley and Ken Riley and Coach/Contributor Finalist Don Coryell.

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Ex-Giants credit USFL will kick starting their NFL careers

Several retired members of the New York Giants — all Super Bowl champions — credit the USFL with kick starting their NFL careers.

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The USFL is back and this time it’s likely to stick around a bit longer. The league has kicked off this spring in eight of its original 1983 cities (although they won’t play in each) but this time not as a competitor to the NFL but more of a feeder league.

That’s what the original USFL became when it when defunct in 1985. With the league’s eventual financial demise on the horizon, the NFL began to prepare to pick up the pieces by holding a supplemental draft of their players in 1984.

The New York Giants held the third pick in that draft and chose tackle Gary Zimmerman, who the team was forced to trade to Minnesota in 1986 after he refused to play for them. He wasn’t the only Hall of Famer to come out of the USFL.

Quarterbacks Jim Kelly (Houston Gamblers) and Steve Young (LA Express), defensive lineman Reggie White (Memphis Showboats) and linebacker Sam Mills (Philadelphia Stars) all went on to have Hall of Fame careers in the NFL.

Despite Zimmerman’s rebuff, the Giants did very well with USFL refugees. They landed both a Pro Bowl center and punter in Bart Oates and Sean Landeta from the Baltimore Stars, and fullback Maurice Carthon from the New Jersey Generals. All three were vital cogs in the Giants’ championship teams of the 1980s-90s.

“I’m a perfect example of a guy, I would have never made it in the NFL, I don’t think, because I wasn’t that big,” Oates told the New York Post. “I played three years in the USFL, I was able to improve my trade, and become a better, more well-rounded player… I had such a good time. I would never have left. I would’ve stayed in the USFL, if they had maintained it.”

“I got a whole lot out of the league,” Carthon told The Post. “I was just graduated from college, and then I went to the USFL, and then the rest is history. We’re talking about playing with Doug Flutie, Herschel Walker, people like that. There was some good football in the USFL.

“It helped me as a football player because I played with Herschel, and we both played together. Then being a 1,000-yard rusher, I couldn’t believe that I did it, but I was able to do that.”

A footnote to this story goes back to that 1984 Supplemental draft where the Giants chose Zimmerman over Reggie White, who was taken by the Philadelphia Eagles with the next pick.

Head coach Bill Parcells wanted White to pair with Lawrence Taylor but general manager George Young wanted Zimmerman to bolster the wobbly offensive line. White went on terrorize NFL quarterbacks and the Giants traded Zimmerman to Minnesota for two second-round picks in the 1986 NFL draft. The chose cornerback Mark Collins and defensive back Greg Lasker with those selections.

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Justin Tuck, Tiki Barber among modern-era nominees for Hall of Fame’s class of 2021

Nine former members of the New York Giants are among the modern-era nominees for the Hall of Fame’s class of 2021, including Justin Tuck.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the names of 130 modern-era nominees for the class of 2021 on Wednesday, and nine former members of the New York Giants made the cut.

Among them is defensive end and team captain, Justin Tuck, who is in his first year of eligibility, and running back Tiki Barber.

Tuck was a third-round pick of the Giants in the 2005 NFL Draft out of Notre Dame and went on to win two Super Bowl titles with the team over his nine-year stint in East Rutherford. He spent the final two seasons of his career with the Oakland Raiders before retiring as a member of the Giants (one-day contract).

In 2016, the Giants inducted Tuck into their Ring of Honor.

Barber was a second-round pick of the Giants in the 1997 NFL Draft out of Virginia and earned three Pro Bowl nods and one All-Pro honor during his 10-year stint with the team. Barber retired in 2006 and was indicted into the team’s Ring of Honor in 2010.

Barber remains the Giants’ all-time leading rusher (10,449).

The seven other former Giants who were listed among the 2021 Pro Football Hall of Fame modern-era nominees are running back Herschel Walker, tight end Jeremy Shockey, guard Chris Snee, punters Jeff Feagles and Sean Landeta, kick returner Brian Mitchell and offensive tackle Lomas Brown.

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