When you’re right there in the moment it’s a lot more difficult to gain perspective that only comes over the course of time. I’m sure many of us watching the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2014 through 2017 were convincing ourselves that we were witnessing a Hall of Fame duo with Le’Veon Bell at running back and David DeCastro at guard.
We don’t know how their careers are going to unfold in their entirety yet. Perhaps they will end with Hall of Fame careers. But we do know that the Steelers have already had one such duo in the recent past—or at least soon will have had one—in Jerome Bettis and Alan Faneca, who is once again a finalist for the Hall of Fame and will eventually get in, even if it’s not this year.