Cam Heyward and T.J. Watt aren’t done with their NFL careers yet. But each are steadily climbing up Pro Football Reference’s Hall of Fame Monitor, a statistical measure of a player’s career and how likely they are to make it into Canton, Ohio.
It’s a tool I like to look at before and after each season to see where players start and finish. For Heyward and Watt, neither’s quite in golden territory for a golden jacket. But they’re getting closer.
Heyward ranks 24th on the list of all-time defensive tackles with a 59.5 Hall of Fame score, just narrowly behind Vince Wilfork.