The Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025 was revealed Thursday night at NFL Honors, three days before Super Bowl LIX. Bengal football great Jared Allen was among the honorees of this year's class.
Below are the members of the Class of 2025:
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his calf-roping celebration are Canton-bound. A four-time first-team All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl pass rusher, Allen has parlayed a 12-year career filled with sack cellies and eccentric hairdos into a gold jacket.
The defensive end secured the honor in his fifth year of eligibility and as a finalist.
Allen started his career in Kansas City, finishing fifth in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting after earning nine sacks in his first year out of Idaho State. After an NFL-best 15.5-sack, 19-TFL season earned him an All-Pro nod in 2007, Allen was traded to the Vikings for a haul and then extended with what was at the time the richest contract for a defensive player. He more than lived up to the deal. Allen racked up at least 11 sacks in each of his six seasons in Minnesota and finished second in Defensive Player of the Year voting in 2011 after tallying 22 sacks, still the second most in NFL history behind Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt's 22.5.
After finishing his career in Chicago and Carolina -- coming up just short of a Super Bowl title -- Allen enters the Hall with 136 career sacks (12th all time) in 187 games played. Though he came up short of the single-season sack mark, Allen does have the distinction of being tied for the most safeties in NFL history (4), a quirky milestone for one of the 21st century's most outlandish characters.
In 2014 Jared allen was named No.8 in the Big Sky's 50 top male athletes of all time. To read about his career and being named to the list,
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In 2020, Allen was inducted into the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of the honor.
Congratulations poured in for Allen all over social media
