Eli Manning not voted into Pro Football Hall of Fame for second straight year: report

Eli Manning, the two-time Super Bowl-winning backmost of the New York Giants, has reportedly fallen abbreviated of the votes indispensable to scope the Pro Football Hall of Fame again.

Manning, who was successful his 2nd twelvemonth arsenic 1 of the 15 modern-era finalists, didn’t marque the cut, according to The Athletic.

While it isn’t the biggest Hall of Fame communicative of the week — Bill Belichick not being a first-ballot inductee acceptable the shot satellite aflame — Manning has been a hot-button Canton taxable since helium became eligible.

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Eli Manning of the New York Giants poses with John Mara during a property league announcing the quarterback's status connected Jan. 24, 2020 astatine Quest Diagnostic Training Center successful East Rutherford, New Jersey.  (Elsa/Getty Images)

Many judge that Manning volition marque it successful arsenic a Hall of Famer 1 day, but there’s different broadside of the statement that helium shouldn’t.

The former’s statement is Manning, the younger member of Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, ranks 11th all-time successful passing yards and passing touchdowns. And his 2 Super Bowls were against the New England Patriots, taking down Belichick and Tom Brady to spoil their cleanable 2007 play and the 2011 campaign.

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But Manning finished his vocation with an adjacent 117-117 wide grounds with the Giants, yet getting replaced by Daniel Jones, whom the squad drafted to beryllium the adjacent large franchise quarterback. The smaller portion of the statement against Manning is, portion helium has each those passing touchdowns and yards, helium led the league 3 abstracted times successful interceptions.

Looking astatine some sides, the pros look to outweigh the cons, particularly considering helium is conscionable 1 of six players successful NFL past to person aggregate Super Bowl MVP awards. Some of the notable others see Brady and Kansas City Chiefs prima Patrick Mahomes, some of whom are already considered first-ballot Hall of Famers.

The different 3 are shot royalty — Joe Montana, Bart Starr and Terry Bradshaw.

A erstwhile player, manager oregon enforcement needs astatine slightest 80% of votes to get in. From a 50-person panel, made up of 1 media subordinate from each pro shot city, a 33rd subordinate from the Pro Football Writers of America, and up to 17 at-large delegates, power who heads to Canton and who remains extracurricular of the hallowed halls.

Eli Manning aft being named MVP aft Super Bowl XLVI successful Indianapolis, February 5, 2012.  (IMAGN)

The afloat Class of 2026 volition beryllium officially announced connected Feb. 5, 2026 during the NFL Honors special, which volition beryllium televised from San Francisco.

A modern-era subordinate similar Manning is eligible for the Hall of Fame ballot from their 5th twelvemonth of status and up until their 25th year.

Manning continues to beryllium progressive with the crippled today, particularly with his Giants. He has been a high-valued dependable for the franchise contempt not holding immoderate large title. With the team’s caller authorities headed by John Harbaugh, it remains to beryllium seen what benignant of interaction Manning could person moving forward.

"It couldn't person worked retired immoderate better," Manning told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation regarding Harbaugh's hire. "I knew the Giants, you're conscionable like, 'Hey, you request idiosyncratic with caput coaching acquisition and a feline who's been successful this situation, who's going to cognize however to woody with the New York media, who's going to benignant of instrumentality implicit arsenic the CEO of not conscionable the team, but the full enactment and the full gathering astir the Giants. The occupation is that idiosyncratic astir apt doesn't exist. He's not retired there.’

Former NFL subordinate  Eli Manning speaks astatine halftime during an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Cincinnati Bengals and the New York Giants astatine MetLife Stadium connected Oct. 13, 2024 successful East Rutherford, NJ. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

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"And then, each of a sudden, there's John Harbaugh sitting there. It's conscionable unbelievable, a idiosyncratic that's had large occurrence successful the NFL. It conscionable could not beryllium a amended fit. I'm truthful excited for him, I've had immoderate agelong conversations with him astir this, and I deliberation he's gonna bash an unbelievable occupation and excited astir getting the Giants backmost connected track."

As Manning hopes his erstwhile squad does get backmost connected track, helium volition person to hold astatine slightest different twelvemonth earlier perchance proceeding his sanction called astatine the NFL Honors, indicating helium tin articulation his member and the remainder of the large shot Hall of Famers.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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