Is there room for Jason Kelce on Eagles’ Mt. Rushmore? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are the four Presidents sculptor Gutzon Borglum carved into the face of Mount Rushmore in western South Dakota in the 1930s.
But what about the 5th-best President? Sorry, FDR. Sorry, Eisenhower. Sorry, James K. Polk. There’s just no room for you up there on the side of the mountain.
That’s what makes putting together Mt. Rushmores so challenging and so much fun.
You only get four spots. No alternates. No ties. No honorable mention.
Just four.
Which brings us to the Eagles.
With Jason Kelce announcing his retirement Monday, it got us thinking about the Eagles’ Mt. Rushmore.
Who belongs? Who doesn’t belong? If Kelce goes on, who gets knocked off?
Difficult questions, but I set out to find an answer.
First, to narrow down the field, I devised a point system where I assigned two points for every 1st-team all-pro honor and one point for each Pro Bowl. Then I made a list of the top 25 retired point scorers (not including guys like Keith Jackson and Bob Brown, who were only here for three or four years).
Offense: Harold Carmichael, Randall Cunningham, DeSean Jackson, Jason Kelce, Tommy McDonald, LeSean McCoy, Donovan McNabb, Jason Peters, Pete Pihos, Mike Quick, Pete Retzlaff, Tra Thomas, Steve Van Buren, Al Wistert.
Defense: Eric Allen, Chuck Bednarik, Bill Bergey, Bill Bradley, Brian Dawkins, Malcolm Jenkins, Seth Joyner, Jeremiah Trotter, Troy Vincent and Reggie White.
Special Teams: David Akers.
Next step was to study that list and then narrow it down to the 10-best Eagles of all-time.
I came up with: Bednarik, Cox, Dawkins, Kelce, Peters, Pihos, Quick, Van Buren, White and Wistert. You can make a case for a few other guys, but those are my 10.
And only four of them can make it up the mountain.
Who do we eliminate?
Peters only made two all-pro teams and Cox one. Thanks to the Veterans Stadium…
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Publish date : 2024-03-06 02:51:16
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