NFL Films: 'Chuck Foreman Running Back'

Source:NFL Films- Minnesota Vikings RB Chuck Foreman against the Atlanta Falcons.

"Chuck Foreman could run and catch.  today, he would be a fantasy league top draft pick!" 

From Hardnose 81

I'll say this about Chuck Foreman: for about 5 seasons from 1973-77, I don't think there was a better running back in the NFL, than Chuck Foreman. Is that enough to get him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame eventually, we'll see. 

But then you also have to consider the 3 most important games of Chuck Forman's career being those 3 Super Bowls that he played in that the Minnesota Vikings not just lost, but got handed in against the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl 8, the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 9, and the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl 11, I mean that's why he's not in the Hall of Fame today. The same reason that Vikings great DE Jim Marshall is also not in the Hall of Fame, because Marshall already has the career numbers to be there. 

Just to add something else to this discussion: if Chuck Foreman gets in the Hall of Fame at some point, it shouldn't be before Roger Craig who if anything had a longer, more productive carer with the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s, who was the best all around RB in the NFL, probably from 1985-89, whose also a 3 time Super Bowl champion and Super Bowl MVP. If Foreman got in before Roger Craig, I think that would be a problem. But if Foreman got in at some point, I wouldn't have a problem with that.