Seven men will be formally enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 3 in Canton, Ohio. Yahoo Sports will take a relatively short look at each legend and how he reached football immortality.
Fans tuning into a Final Four men's basketball game in April of 2000 saw a muscular freshman lead North Carolina with 16 minutes off the bench. They might have remembered him from earlier in the NCAA tournament, scoring six points with three blocks in an upset over top-seeded Stanford, or putting up six points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals in a regional final win against Tulsa.