Eli Manning does not cut

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New Orleans – Take a bow, Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Antonio Gates and Sterling Sharpe.

You are now forever on the ultimate team that honor greatness.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame revealed its class 2025 under the NFL Honors program at Saenger Theater on Thursday night with a nod for exclusivity. It’s the smallest Hall of Fame class of 20 years.

Do not do the clip: Eli Manning.

Former New York Giants Quarterback, a two-time Super Bowl MVP, was bypassed by 49 members selection committees along with other first-ballot finalists Terrell Suggs, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri and Marshal Yanda. Coaching finalist Mike Holmgren and other prominent long-standing finalists, including Torrry Holt and Reggie Wayne, are also forced to wait at least a year.

There is still no contest of credentials for the four that will be laid down on August 2nd in Canton, Ohio:

• Sharpe, elected as a senior finalist in his 26th year of eligibility, joins his brother Shannon to form the first Hall of Fame Brother -duo in history. The former Green Bay Packers receiver, whose career was cut off shortly after seven seasons due to a neck injury, was a choice throughout the year for the 1990s that led the NFL in reception three times (including a then NFL record 112 catches in 1993) and topped 1,000 meters five times.

• Gates, which owns the NFL mark for career-touchdown receipts at a tight end (116), earned the Pro Bowl Heads for eight consecutive seasons (2004-2011) and earned five all-pro elections over a 16-year-old career with San Diego chargers. He was a choice throughout the year in the 2000s. He was also a surprising failure of the first part last year.

• Jared Allen, a four-gangs’ first-team all-pro defensive end, ranks 12. On NFLS all the time with 136 sacks. A five-time finalist he led the league in sacks twice-at the course of his four-year-old stint with Kansas City Chiefs, then again during his six-year stay with Minnesota Vikings. He also has part of the NFL record with four safeties over a 12-year career that also included stints with Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers.

• Eric Allen, who played the first seven campaigns in his 14-year-old NFL career with Philadelphia Eagles, was a six-time Pro Bowl Cornerback. He noted 54 interceptions (tied to 21. All the time), including eight returned to touchdowns. In 1993 he led the league with four pickers. Allen also played three seasons with New Orleans Saints and four campaigns with Oakland Raiders. He was elected in his 19th year of eligibility.

The last Hall of Fame class with so few inductors was chosen in 2005 (Dan Marino, Steve Young, Fritz Pollard, Bennie Friedman). It is striking because each Hall class since 2013 has had at least seven members.

Why such a limited number of inductors? It is probably a by -product of a revised selection process with a final reduction reconciliation that dictated the selection panel that voted for five of the last seven modern candidates with those who secured 80% of the vote that received induction. Previously, voters chose from a last five with a yes or no poll where those who got 80%got nodded.

Five other finalists-three seniors and one from coaches and contributors categories-also gathered for a vote separated from the modern candidates. Panel members voted for three elections from the five finalists across the three categories in which those who draw 80%got induction.

The Hall of Fame selection committee voted almost in January to select the class.