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Last summer, former Green Bay Packers receiver Sterling Sharpe was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, as the one senior addition to the PFHOF for the 2025 class. On Thursday, the Hall announced the 52 senior candidates who advanced to the next round of cuts, players who are hoping to follow the steps of Sharpe into Canton. Previously, the list had been 162 senior candidates, so more than two-thirds of the names that were initially considered for the one senior addition for the 2026 class have already been cut.
Among the 52 candidates are offensive lineman Jim Tyrer and linebacker Maxie Baughan, who, along with Sharpe, were in the final three candidates for the senior nomination last year.
Former Green Bay Packers in this list of 52 include:
Obviously, Clayton is best remembered for his time with the Miami Dolphins, where he played from 1983 to 1992. Of Clayton’s 582 receptions, 8,974 receiving yards and 84 touchdowns, he only posted 32 receptions, 331 yards and 3 touchdowns in his one year as a Packer in 1993.
Both Isbell and Dilweg are historically great Packers, though. Isbell was an All-Pro in all five years that he spent with Green Bay after being selected seventh overall in the 1938 draft. After the 1942 season, he was hired to be an assistant coach with Purdue, his alma mater, before taking over the Boilermakers’ head coaching job the following season.
In his final two years in the league, only his fourth and fifth as a professional, Isbell led the NFL in passing yards and passing touchdowns. He was also the first player in NFL history to break the 2,000-yard passing mark in a single season. His 23 straight games of touchdown passes were a record that wasn’t broken for 15 years, when Jonny Unitas beat his mark in 1957. Unitas’ record stood until Drew Brees broke it in 2012.
LaVern “Lavvie” Dilweg was a 1920s All-Decade player who won three straight NFL championships with the Packers after playing one year with the Milwaukee Badgers in 1926, while going to law school. He was named an eight-time All-Pro during his nine-year playing career, only failing short of that mark in his final season of 1934. Only one player, beyond Dilweg, has failed to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame from the NFL’s 1920s All-Decade Team.
Dilweg was also a member of Congress, representing Wisconsin’s 8th district from 1943 to 1945. Dilweg’s grandson, Anthony Dilweg, was drafted in the third round by the Packers in the 1989 draft. The quarterback spent two years with the Green Bay, going 2-5 as a starter in 1990 while Don Majkowski was injured.
