It's hard to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in general, but it may be even harder to do it when you're an offensive lineman. All that most people have to go off of is reputation and so to be considered a lock to make the Hall as a left tackle before your career is even over is an even bigger accomplishment. Think about this: The only tackles to be elected from the last 15 years are Orlando Pace, Walter Jones, Willie Roaf, and Jonathan Ogden.
Soon(ish) they'll be joined by the Eagles' Jason Peters, an eight-time Pro Bowl, six-time All-Pro tackle, which seems all well and not worth digging into if you don't know much about Peters, but consider where those tackles came from:
Pace was the first overall pick, Roaf went eighth overall, Jones went sixth overall, and Ogden went fourth overall.