{"id":13913,"date":"2025-10-24T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:46:07","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-legend-moves-one-step-to-closer-to-hall-of-fame-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13913\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers legend moves one step to closer to Hall of Fame induction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> legendary defensive tackle L.C. Greenwood <\/a>has moved one step closer to an induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n

Greenwood was among the 34 players who advanced in the voting by the hall\u2019s blue ribbon panel for senior inductees. All players whose final season was before 2000 are considered by the senior committee, and Greenwood has long been a topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

There will be more rounds of voting to trim the list to 25 nominees, then down to nine, and eventually, to three finalists who will be voted on by the Hall of Fame voting panel to decide if those nominees should be inducted into Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Greenwood made it further this year than last year, as he was eliminated in the cut down from 60 to 31 in 2024. A 10th-round selection out of Arkansas Pine-Bluff, Greenwood was a two-time All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowler with 78 career sacks, the most out of anyone on the Steel Curtain defensive line.<\/p>\n

Those stats were collected by Pro Football Reference, who combed through football to accumulate sack statistics. Sacks became an official statistic in 1983, but at the time he retired, Greenwood would have been the all-time franchise leader in sacks. <\/p>\n

Greenwood retired from the NFL in 1981 and died from kidney failure in 2013 at the age of 67. <\/p>\n

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