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Should be snap decision: Former Jets C Kevin Mawae belongs in Canton

Of the 303 members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, only three played the majority of their career with the New York Jets: Joe Namath, Don Maynard and Curtis Martin.

It could be four by Saturday night. It should be four.

Kevin Mawae belongs in Canton because he was the best center of his generation. He was the first-team, all-decade center for the 2000s, and every all-decade center from the 1920s to the 1990s is in the Hall of Fame. That elite fraternity consists of Jim Otto (1960s), Jim Langer (1970s), Dwight Stephenson (1980s) and Dermontti Dawson (1990s).