@Pikes Peak posted:Not HOF worthy, he was a very good player, made some big plays in big games.
While not worthy he certainly will be and should be on the ballot.
Just for a thought exercise, let's compare these two players. The two players are the same size, roughly the same weight, and came into the league two years apart. They are both slot receivers. Both have 5 career playoff TDs.
Player A. 130 career games, 563 catches, 6793 yards, 47 TDs
Player B. 137 career games, 620 catches, 6822 yards, 36 TDs
To put this into even more context, while the QB plays a huge role in the success of any slot receiver, how good a TE they play next to also is huge. A superstar TE takes two guys out of the middle of the field.
Player A played a lot of his career with Richard Rodgers.
Player B played with Gronkowski.
Player A is Randall Cobb. Player B is Edelman
Edelman produced in the playoffs (although Cobb wasn't terrible by any means), and that means something. But is Robert Horry a Hall of Famer in the NBA because he happened to hit some wide-open 3s at key times after being set up by superstar teammates? Again, it means something (just ask Eric Bledsoe), but it doesn't make you a Hall of Famer.