Would a Patriots win in Tremendous Bowl LX make Stefon Diggs a Corridor of Famer?
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Diggs is actually one of many high broad receivers of his period, however the Patriots star may need a hill to climb to make the Corridor of Fame.
Gamers’ legacies are at all times on the road in a Tremendous Bowl, and Patriots broad receiver Stefon Diggs actually is aware of that.
Diggs was fairly blunt about his need to grow to be a Corridor of Famer forward of the Patriots’ matchup towards the Seahawks in Tremendous Bowl LX.
“I don’t give it some thought an excessive amount of as a result of it’s a person accolade, and I do know it is a crew sport. I simply know that it [would] assist my case just a little bit. I at all times wished that, although,” Diggs advised reporters this week when requested about his need to grow to be a Corridor of Famer. “I’m by no means gonna shun or run away from desirous to be a Corridor of Famer or desirous to be a man that performed this sport and be revered, so I don’t run from that. However I do know this could assist your case just a little bit.”
A win on Sunday would definitely examine a serious field for Diggs’s potential Corridor of Fame resume. It could be the 32-year-old’s first Tremendous Bowl win, giving him practically each huge accolade doable. In fact, there’s additionally the chance that Diggs might win Tremendous Bowl MVP, making Offensive Participant of the Yr the one main award that he hasn’t obtained in his profession.
However even successful Tremendous Bowl MVP won’t be sufficient for Diggs to get into the Corridor of Fame. Diggs has been named a Professional Bowler 4 instances in his profession to go together with one first-team All-Professional honor and a second-team All-Professional nod. Whereas that’s actually spectacular, there have solely been seven broad receivers who’ve been named a Professional Bowler seven instances or fewer within the Tremendous Bowl period who’ve made the Corridor of Fame. All of them performed earlier than 1990.
That group of seven consists of the likes of Lynn Swann and John Stallworth, who every received 4 Tremendous Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers within the Seventies. Drew Pearson can be on that listing, however he received a Tremendous Bowl with the Cowboys and had a comparatively shorter profession for a Corridor of Famer.
When it comes to All-Professionals, Diggs’s two complete All-Professional nods are in the identical ballpark as a handful of broad receivers within the Corridor of Fame. Larry Fitzgerald, who will likely be inducted as a primary poll Corridor of Famer in 2026, solely had three complete All-Professional nods in his profession. However he was an 11-time Professional Bowler as nicely. He’s additionally second all-time in receiving yards.
Diggs is thirty eighth all-time in receiving yards (11,504), however might doubtlessly climb his means into the top-15 if he has a few extra seasons just like the one he simply had with the Patriots. He’s additionally forty third all-time in receiving touchdowns (73), and it isn’t inconceivable to suppose he might climb into the highest 15 in that stat earlier than his profession is over, too. He’d want 18 extra touchdowns to try this.
Nevertheless, there are a handful of different energetic broad receivers who’re round both round Diggs in these stats or are on tempo to surpass these numbers within the coming years. Diggs appeared to acknowledge that, as he hopes a Tremendous Bowl title may assist him stand out in comparison with a few of his friends.
“I do know a participant like Mike Evans — who has been to [a] Tremendous Bowl, has had lots of success on this league, in my eyes — is a Corridor of Famer,” Diggs stated. “Everyone realizes he needs to be a Corridor of Famer. I simply know that I’m chasing lots of nice receivers.”
To Diggs’s level, Evans is a Tremendous Bowl champion, a six-time Professional Bowler, and splits the file for the longest streak of 1,000-yard receiving seasons (11) in NFL historical past. However in Professional Soccer Reference’s Corridor of Fame monitor, Evans has a decrease monitor rating than seven broad receivers who aren’t within the Corridor of Fame who’re eligible for induction. There are additionally 4 broad receivers who aren’t eligible for Corridor of Fame induction who’ve the next monitor rating than Evans.
Diggs’s Corridor of Fame monitor rating is even decrease than Evans’s. He has 22 broad receivers forward of him that aren’t within the Corridor of Fame (together with those that aren’t eligible for induction but) in Professional Soccer Reference’s monitor rating.
Clearly, Diggs nonetheless has time in his profession to make up some floor. And as we talked about earlier, Diggs might win Tremendous Bowl MVP on Sunday. However even that’s not a surefire approach to get into the Corridor of Fame. Solely two broad receivers (Jerry Rice, Lynn Swan) who’ve received Tremendous Bowl MVP have made their means into the Corridor of Fame.
So, even when Diggs has a dominant efficiency on Sunday, he seemingly has some work to do to grow to be a Corridor of Famer. However after what’s transpired with the Corridor of Fame voting in latest weeks, Diggs acknowledged it is likely to be powerful to forecast who is likely to be getting a bust in Canton sooner or later.
“I hope this could be just a little enhance,” Diggs stated. “Shoot, you by no means know. Corridor of Fame is getting just a little bizarre today. You by no means know.”
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