Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Sterling Sharpe is a finalist for the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class.
Sharpe, the older brother of Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, is trying to join his brother in Canton for this year’s class.
Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre, who played with Sharpe, told TMZ this week that Sharpe 100% belongs in the Hall of Fame.
“He was not the fastest, he was not the tallest, but he was by far the smartest, maybe the smartest football player I ever played with. And that’s saying a lot,” Favre said, via TMZ.
Favre is also hoping that Mike Holmgren, one of his former coaches, makes this year’s class into Canton.
“To be in there with all those guys would be nothing short of amazing. It’d be an awesome time,” Favre said.
Sharpe only played in the NFL for seven seasons but he made them count, finishing with 595 receptions for 8,134 yards and 65 touchdowns. He compiled five 1,000-yard seasons and had his best season in 1992 when he finished with 108 receptions for 1,461 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Holmgren coached the Packers for seven seasons (1992-98), leading them to a Super Bowl title (Super Bowl XXXI) during the 1996 season over the New England Patriots. He went 75-37 during his seven-season tenure with the Packers before coaching the Seattle Seahawks for the next 10 seasons.
He went 86-74 as the Seahawks head coach and led them to a berth in Super Bowl XL during the 2005 season before they fell short against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also won two Super Bowl rings as an assistant with the San Francisco 49ers and finished his coaching career with a 161-111 regular season record.
We’ll see if Sharpe and Holmgren get inducted into Canton when the 2025 Hall of Fame class is announced in February.
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