5 NFL Players That Would DEFINITELY Be Hall Of Famers If It Weren’t For Injuries

 

Nothing hurts more than watching one of your team's star players have a string of success cut short due to injuries it sucks seeing a promising career end because of injuries. it's happened plenty of times since the NFL's Inception over a century ago though we were fortunate to watch these Stars dominate games for some years you can't help but wonder what more they could have accomplished had they just stayed healthy

1 Andrew Luck

Luck in his four fully healthy Seasons he was a pro bowler and he got the Indianapolis Colts to the postseason this included a trip to AFC Championship game in 2014 a shoulder injury and a lacerated kidney limited him to seven games in 2015. he missed a pivotal 2016 game in Pittsburgh due to a concussion and all of 2017 recovering from shoulder surgery luck one comeback Player of the Year honors in 2018 and seemingly had Andy right back in Super Bowl contention but in August 2019 Lex shockingly announced his retirement after dealing with nagging ankle and calf injuries luck explained that the injuries had taken a toll on him and simply made him lose his desire to play the game he walked away with a career record of 53 and 33 to go along with 23 671 passing yards and 171 touchdowns the top pick of 2012 is fifth all-time in career passing yards per game at 275.2 higher than Peyton Manning Tom Brady Kurt Warner and Dan Marino having retired before his 30th birthday luck was unquestionably on a Hall of Fame trajectory even just two or three more healthy Seasons would have gotten him into Canton you gotta tip your hat to the guy for prioritizing his long-term health first but we also can't help but wonder what could have been had he just stayed healthy and never lost a desire to play

2 Sterling Sharp

Sterling Sharp Here’s the thing the older brother Hall of Famer Shannon Sharp probably deserves to be in Canton anyways but it's been nearly 30 years since his career ended abruptly and Sterling still isn't in the hall it's probably time to accept that the dream is over for him Sharp's career resume is downright ridiculous though in Seven Seasons he was a five-time pro bowler and a three-time first-team All-Pro who led the NFL catches three times and in receiving touchdowns twice the Green Bay Packers Legend, unfortunately, suffered a career-ending neck injury in 1994 at the age of 29. he was forced to retire finishing with 595 receptions for 8 134 yards and 65 touchdowns to us that's all Hall of Fame resume but the Canton voters obviously disagree well follow you can say is this Sterling would have been a shoe-in if injuries didn't force him to retire early two more seasons would have guaranteed him a gold jacket

3 Jean Alexander

Jean Alexander the former Seattle Seahawk’s Superstar running back had one of the all-time greatest seasons ever back in 2005. that year Alexander rushed for 1 880 yards and a ridiculous 27 touchdowns his 28 total touchdowns were a single-season record although LaDainian Tomlinson broke it one year later Alexander won the 2005 League MVP and helped Seattle of the franchise's first Super Bowl championship where they fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers unfortunately that was Alexander's last great season he missed six games in 2006 after suffering a broken foot and he still had 896 rushing yards and seven touchdowns but he was a shell of his former self in 2007 as all the injuries had clearly caught up to him Washington picked up Alexander in the 2008 offseason following his release from Seattle but he played just four games before getting cut mid-season the 2005 MVP retired with 9453 career rushing yards and 100 rushing scores tied with Marshall Faulk for eighth on the all-time leaderboard you can certainly make a case at Alexander should already be in the Hall of Fame but at this point it feels unlikely it's a shame that injuries quickly derailed his final two seasons in Seattle honestly staying healthy over the 2006 and 2007 campaigns would have been enough for him to sneak

4 Jamal Charles

in the Canton Jamal Charles Prime Jamal Charles was truly something else from 2009 to 2014 he had five 1000-yard seasons was a four-time pro bowler and earned two first-email Pro nods and one-second Teemo Pro selection, unfortunately, a torn ACL suffered in week two of the 2011 season took away a year of Charles Prime he rebounded with three straight 1000 yard seasons and then the injury bug struck again in week 5 of the 2015 season Charles tore his ACL against the Chicago Bears he played three games in 2016 before subsequent knee surgery ended a season the Chiefs eventually released Charles who wound up signing with the Denver Broncos in 2017. Charles didn't do much there in a limited role and wound up playing two games for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2018 before ultimately retiring he finished with 7563 career rushing yards and 44 touchdowns among all players with at least 1 000 career carries Charles has the best yard per carry average with an insane 5.4 in other words he was well on his way to the hall of fame before injuries in 2016 and 2017 derailed that Dream

5 Kam Chancellor

it's disappointing that we didn't get to see Prime Bam Bam for at least a couple of more years but on the positive side Chancellor sure made the most of his eight seasons in the NFL the hard-hitting safety out of Virginia Tech formed Seattle's legendary legion of boom secondary that also included Earl Thomas Richard Sherman and Byron Maxwell that group led Seattle to five straight playoff appearances from 2012 to 2016. two NFC Championship wins and a Super Bowl 49 Victory Chancellor was one of football's Premier safeties from 2011 to 2015. with four Pro Bowl nods and a pair of second team All-Pro Selections in that spam unfortunately Chancellor suffered a seasoning neck injury in 2017 and had to miss Seattle's final seven games it turned out to be be a career-ending injury as Chancellor essentially announced that he wouldn't be able to play football anymore Chancellor Thomas and Sherman were all on Hall of Fame trajectories before injury started to pile up for them Sherman still has a good shot at getting in but it feels less likely for Chancellor and Thomas a true shame because that was one of the NFL's all-time great safety Duos and if they had both stayed healthy who knows maybe Seattle would have won more than a single Super Bowl in the Russell Wilson Era