Of the 52 candidates to be considered for this year's Pro Football Hall of Fame Class, five were former Cowboys, including two currently in the team's Ring of Honor. Don Meredith and Lee Roy Jordan were both listed as candidates, along with Everson Walls, Harvey Martin and Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
The nine-person Seniors Blue-Ribbon Committee will consider the 52 players to determine three finalists for the Seniors category, to go along with modern-era candidates, which was **recently trimmed to 128 and also included 10 former Cowboys.**
To be considered this election cycle, each person in the Seniors category could have appeared in a professional football game no more recently than the 2000 season. The players who remain eligible for election with the Class of 2026 are:
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