After a long 17 year career, Philip Rivers decided to retire from the NFL. Is Rivers’ career resume good enough for the Hall of Fame?
Philip Rivers called it a career after 17 great years in the NFL. He will go down as one of the toughest players in NFL history. Rivers had quite the career, and he will be known as the best San Diego/Los Angeles Charger ever and an excellent Indianapolis Colt in his final year.
After Rivers called it quits, after failing to win a championship with the Indianapolis Colts, will he be in the Hall of Fame?
Will Rivers be in the Hall of fame?
Philip Rivers’ stats speak for themselves. To start off, he is currently 5th all-time in completed passes, passing yards, and passing touchdowns. He is a model of consistency. He also made the Pro Bowl 8 times. Rivers has shown throughout his career that he is an elite quarterback. There are quarterbacks with worse stats than him that are in the Hall of Fame, for example, look at Dan Fouts.
The elephant in the room is that Rivers did not win a Super Bowl. Rivers had many things going against him throughout his career. The Chargers are not a stable organization at all. Even though they gave Rivers Hall of Fame weapons such as LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates, the teams that Rivers played on were never complete teams.
Another roadblock in his career was that Rivers was playing in the best era of quarterbacks ever. His competition from early in his career was Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Eli Manning, and others such as Brett Favre. Naturally, the Chargers could not beat these quarterbacks because a lot of the Rivers’ led Chargers teams had atrocious defenses. This cannot be a knock on his career because he played against some of the best of all-time, and if Rivers had played for a stable organization such as the New York Giants, his career could have been different.
Philip Rivers will go down as one of the toughest quarterbacks in NFL history, and he will most likely be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
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