Multiple Packers among preliminary nominees for Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025

GREEN BAY – Former Packers receiver Donald Driver and safety Nick Collins are among the 167 modern-era nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Driver, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, is Green Bay’s leader in receiving yards with 10,137. Collins was selected to the All-Pro team three times before suffering a career-ending neck injury two games into his seventh NFL season.

Other nominees for the Packers include receivers Jordy Nelson and Antonio Freeman, running back Dorsey Levens, fullback John Kuhn and offensive linemen Josh Sitton and TJ Lang.

Other nominees who spent part of their NFL careers with the Packers include receiver Andre Rison, safety Eugene Robinson, fullback Vonta Leach, offensive linemen Jahri Evans and Jeff Saturday, returners Eric Metcalf and Allen Rossum, and punter Sean Landeta.

The nominees consist of 94 offensive players, 56 defensive players and 17 special teams players.

In the next step of the selection process, a screening committee will reduce the list to 50 (plus any ties for 50th place). The results of that reduction will be announced in mid-October.

The full 50-person Hall of Fame Selection Committee will narrow the list further — down to 25 semifinalists later this fall. Another vote will create the list of 15 finalists to be considered at the annual meeting preceding Super Bowl LVIX that will produce the new class, which could include three, four or five modern-era players under the Hall of Fame’s bylaws.