The Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame’s class of 2024 will formally be inducted on Aug. 3.
With lower than a month till the annual occasion in Canton, Ohio, we’re analyzing which gamers — previous and current — on the league’s 32 groups we predict will someday obtain an identical honor.
Listed here are three San Francisco 49ers who ought to ultimately obtain soccer immortality:
Nick Bosa
Bosa remains to be very early in his profession, however it’s not exhausting to identify the trajectory he’s on as among the finest defensive gamers of his period. In 5 years, he has already been named to 4 Professional Bowls, lacking out on that honor solely in the course of the 2020 season when he was restricted to only two video games because of harm.
He has already been a first-team All-Professional and has a Defensive Participant of the Yr award (2022), whereas additionally topping 10.5 sacks in three consecutive seasons.
He might be 27 years outdated in the course of the 2024 season and will nonetheless theoretically be within the prime of his profession for a number of extra years. There’s some projection and “what if” occurring right here, however so long as Bosa stays comparatively wholesome and continues producing the way in which he has to this point. He seems like a participant with a spot ready for him in Canton. Particularly if he ultimately helps the 49ers recover from the hump within the playoffs and helps produce a Tremendous Bowl championship.
Joe Staley
Offensive lineman are essentially the most troublesome positions to judge, not solely when it comes to their precise play but in addition for Corridor of Fame functions. They don’t actually have the identical kind of counting stats that each different place has. It’s simply a kind of positions you simply form of must know. With Staley, it must be apparent in the case of his affect and greatness.
After being picked within the first spherical of the 2007 NFL Draft (No. 28 total), he performed 13 seasons because the 49ers’ beginning left deal with and was a mannequin of consistency inside their offense. He not often missed video games, made six Professional Bowls, was a second-team All-Professional thrice and was named to the NFL’s all-decade group for the 2010s.
Trent Williams
Williams, like Bosa, is one other participant nonetheless energetic for the 49ers. In contrast to Bosa, you would not have to do as a lot projecting with him as a result of he’s beginning to get nearer to the top of his profession. His legacy is already fairly nicely established, and his resume is already practically full.
Whereas he spent the majority of his profession (9 years) with Washington, he’s simply now set to enter his fifth 12 months in San Francisco because the group’s beginning left deal with. He has been one of many league’s elite lineman in each stops and already seems like a Corridor of Fame presence.
He has been a Professional Bowler in 11 of his first 13 seasons (together with 11 in a row) and a three-time first-team All-Professional (in every of the previous three seasons).
He was nice in Washington, however getting a chance to play in Kyle Shanahan’s offense in San Francisco has solely elevated his repute and helped solidify him as a Corridor of Fame deal with.
