Originally Posted by Rain Man
The Bears have the most HoFers, though a lot of them are from the days of yore and played both ways, so it's hard to put them at a particular position. You could probably do stuff like move Red Grange to CB and get closer, but the bottom line is that they're short on WRs, safeties, and CBs. They also need an OLB, but there are probably 8 guys on the roster who could fill in there, most notably Bulldog Turner. And of course no punter, but I'll bet Luckman or Nagurski or someone also punted.
This is a good illustration of how badly defensive backs are discriminated against in the HoF.
RB - Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, George McAfee
QB - Paddy Driscoll, Bobby Layne, Sid Luckman
WR - Bill Hewitt
TE - Mike Ditka
T - Ed Healey, Link Lyman, Joe Stydahar
G - Dan Fortmann, Stan Jones, Walt Kiesling
C - Bulldog Turner, George Trafton
K - George Blanda (K & QB)
P - ?
S - ?
CB - ?
OLB - George Connor
MLB - Dick Butkus, Bill George, Mike Singletary
DE - Doug Atkins, Richard Dent
DT - Dan Hampton, George Musso, Alan Page
Owner - George Halas
GM - Jim Finks
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