KC Chiefs: Will Shields Voted Into NFL Hall Of Fame

Former Kansas City Chiefs guard Will Shields finally earned a place in the NFL Hall Of Fame Saturday. Selectors met in Phoenix the day before Super Bowl 49 to pick the NFL Hall of Fame enshrinees for 2015.

Will Shields won election in his 4th year of eligibility Saturday, and was introduced during the Super Bowl 49 telecast in Phoenix, Arizona Sunday night.

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Shields should have made it back in 2012, his first year of eligibility. He was that dominant.

Will Shields played his entire 14-year career for the KC Chiefs, playing from 2003 to 2006. He arrived in Kansas City as a 3rd round draft pick from the University of Nebraska. Shields was KC Chiefs highest pick after then general manager Carl Peterson traded the no. 1 pick for Joe Montana and used the no. 2 pick in the 1992 supplemental draft to take DE Darren Mickell.

Shields arrived in Kansas City the same year the team brought in Montana and RB Marcus Allen to load up for a Super Bowl run. Shields didn’t sit on the bench very long. He entered the lineup aftel an injury to Derrick Graham in the 1993 season opener at Tampa Bay forced him onto the field.

Shields made 223 consecutive starts after that day, which is the 5th most in NFL history.

Shields also earned 12 consecutive Pro-Bowl berths (6th most all time), 2 first-team all pro nods, and now, induction into the NFL Hall of Fame.

That’s a pretty great career.

Will Shields played in one A.F.C title game, eight playoff games, won four division titles, and played for two teams that held the no. 1 seed in the A.F.C. during the playoffs.

Shields was also known for his work in the community, winning the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award in 2003.

Yet, Shield’s most iconic moment came during a 2004 game against the Baltimore Ravens in which legendary linebacker Ray Lewis whined that he was getting double-teamed while miked up for the game.

Game films showed that it was mostly Will Shields dominating the future Hall of Fame linebacker, while fellow guard Brian Waters handled Lewis on other plays.

Shields was also part of a line that helped Priest Holmes set an NFL rushing record of 27 touchdowns in 2003, and helped the team set a single-game record of eight rushing touchdowns against the Atlanta Falcons in 2004.

Will Shields is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame, and the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

He will also now be forever remembered as one of the greatest Kansas City Chiefs of all time.

No one deserves it more than Will Shields.

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