Despite making it further in the process than ever before, the end result Saturday was too familiar for Everson Walls, who was not selected into the 2018 Class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Walls had never even made it to the semifinal round of 25 candidates before, and certainly hadn’t been on of the 15 finalists like he was this year. But in his final year of eligibility as a modern-day candidate, Walls was left off the ballot.
This year’s class, announced Saturday in Minneapolis on the eve of Super Bowl LII, includes eight new inductees: Bobby Beathard, Robert Brazile, Brian Dawkins, Jerry Kramer, Ray Lewis, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens and Brian Urlacher.