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Kenny Easley seems to be the Seahawkiest of Seahawks players both old and new. Hard hitting, hard working, player that put it all on the line for his team. I wasn't a Seahawks fan in the 80's, and only a casual NFL fan, but I knew who Kenny Easley was. In the most recent MMQB article, on page two, several fans make the case for safties that should be in the HOF, as it has been a very ignored position to date. This post, from a fan, convinced me that Kenny Easley is due for an induction. I'm off to get some Kenny Easley highlights.
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/04/15/philip-ri ... l-draft/2/The case for Kenny Easley, from Shane: What’s the biggest knock against Kenny Easley getting in? His career lasted seven years, and during those years he was the most dominant, game-changing and fear-inducing safety in the league. The other great safety of his time, Ronnie Lott, feels the same way and has said as much in various interviews over the years. Easley was nominated to five Pro Bowls, was first-team All-Pro three times, was first-team all-decade safety for the ’80s, and was the Defensive Player of the Year in 1984, all while toiling away in the relative anonymity of the Seattle market. The reason his career was cut short was simply due to the reckless abandon with which he played. He fearlessly used his body as a tool to wreak the most havoc possible on opposing offenses during his time on the field, and paid the price for it with kidney disease stemming from his willingness to ingest ridiculous amounts of ibuprofen to stay on the field. Easley’s candle may not have burned the longest, but it burned with a blinding and peerless ferocity. The best way to gauge a player’s value has always been to compare it to his contemporaries of the same era. Kenny Easley was the best. Just ask Ronnie Lott.