Two decades after he played his final NFL game — all for the Seahawks — Kenny Easley was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with six other members of the Class of 2017 on Saturday in Canton, Ohio.
Easley’s star was bright but burnt out quickly, forced by kidney disease to retire in 1987 after just seven seasons. Over those seasons, though, he amassed 32 interceptions and made five Pro Bowls. Had Easley played a full career, who knows when this day would have come. Almost surely, though, it wouldn’t have been 20 years later.