I’ve long desired someone to upload to YouTube a highlight reel of all of Devin Hester’s long returns that did not reach the endzone, because that reel is only marginally less thrilling than his touchdown reel. Anyone who watched Devin knows that while there was nothing more exciting than seeing him cross the goalline, there were plenty of great returns that merely drained the life from our opponent’s eyes.
We often scored a few plays later.
I say all of that to say that for the second year of his Pro Football Hall of Fame eligibility, Devin Hester once again out-performed every pure returner in NFL history and finished as a finalist, coming up just short of the endzone, as it were, as he has not been named to the class of 2023.