Donnie Shell was long overdue to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The former Pittsburgh Steelers safety played on four Super Bowl teams and won numerous post-season awards over the course of his career, racking up the interceptions. And yet it took a special centennial class for the Hall of Fame to finally get him in as part of the class of 2020.
Hard as it was for that to happen, it could be difficult to imagine anybody else from that era sneaking through. Really, it’s not clear who amongst anybody who might already be eligible could possibly get in, looking over the Steelers’ history.