Committee size: Reduces panel from 50 Selectors to 28. Their voting status (25 voting, 3 nonvoting participants) will be determined on an annual basis.<\/p>\n
Committee structure: Changes from a geographically based model with one selector per NFL club, 17 at-large selectors and one Pro Football Writers of America representative to 27 at-large selectors and one PFWA representative.<\/p>\n
Player eligibility: Changes from separate Modern-Era Players and Seniors categories \u2014 with players moving to the Seniors category after 25 years of retirement \u2014 to a single pool for all eligible players following the mandatory five-year retirement period.<\/p>\n
Contributor eligibility: Expands from individuals who \u201ccontributed to the game outside of playing or coaching\u201d to consideration of a candidate\u2019s full football r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that may include playing, coaching and other contributions to the sport.<\/p>\n
Candidates considered at annual meeting: Changes from 15 Modern-Era Players, three Seniors, one Coach and one Contributor to 13 Players plus one Coach and one Contributor with the Coach and Contributor determined by the respective subcommittees.<\/p>\n
Seniors on final ballot: Eliminates the previous maximum of three Seniors, with all eligible Players now considered together in a single pool regardless of how long they have been retired.<\/p>\n
Carryover candidates: Eliminates provision allowing candidates who reached the final seven to return automatically as Finalists the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Committee size: Reduces panel from 50 Selectors to 28. Their voting status (25 voting, 3 nonvoting participants) will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6255,23433,99],"class_list":["post-837033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-new-england-patriots-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}