This is from a post By Kenneth Arthur@KennethArthurS on Apr 7, 2025 on the SB Field Gulls site.( Sorry, don't know how to link ~ if you go to the Field Gulls site you can see the play)

Garry Gilliam probably isn't Jason Peters but then again who are we to judge?

It's hard to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in general, but it may be even harder to do it when you're an offensive lineman. All that most people have to go off of is reputation and so to be considered a lock to make the Hall as a left tackle before your career is even over is an even bigger accomplishment. Think about this: The only tackles to be elected from the last 15 years are Orlando Pace, Walter Jones, Willie Roaf, and Jonathan Ogden.

Soon(ish) they'll be joined by the Eagles' Jason Peters, an eight-time Pro Bowl, six-time All-Pro tackle, which seems all well and not worth digging into if you don't know much about Peters, but consider where those tackles came from:

Pace was the first overall pick, Roaf went eighth overall, Jones went sixth overall, and Ogden went fourth overall. Joe Thomas (third overall) is also a lock to make the Hall of Fame.

Peters wasn't drafted.

As a freshman at Arkansas, Peters was a reserve defensive lineman who had been recruited to play defensive tackle. As you may have guessed, he was moved to offense by his sophomore season but not to play offensive tackle; Peters was moved to tight end and he caught 58 passes over the next two years.

(Here he is (at 305 pounds) catching a two-point conversion to force a seventh overtime against Ole Miss.)

However, when he entered into the 2004 NFL Draft, Peters was both "not a very good tight end prospect" nor "an offensive line prospect with any experience of note." He was only a body, but what a body he was: 6'4, 328 pounds, 4.93 in the forty-yard dash, 31.5 inch vertical, 9'7 broad jump, 25 reps on the bench, and 1.89 in the 10-yard split.

That's faster than any offensive tackle in the draft this year, the closest being Indiana's Jason Spriggs, who ran a 4.94 but at 301 pounds. It's the same vertical leap as the 301-pound Spriggs and the only tackle to jump higher was the 324-pound Germain Ifedi, who ran the 40 in 5.27 seconds. Only four tackles did more than 25 reps this year on the bench, and the 9'7 broad would tie Spriggs for the longest at the combine.

In other words, Jason Peters is one of those freak-of-nature athletes that if he were in the draft today, Pete Carroll would never let him slip past the fifth round.

There simply is no comp in the draft this year to Peters (nor are there during most decades) but Spriggs is the closest thing, followed by Ifedi.