Projecting three future Hall of Famers for the Buffalo Bills

The Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2024 will officially be inducted on Aug. 3.

With less than a month until the annual event in Canton, Ohio, we're examining which players — past and present — on the league's 32 teams we think will one day receive a similar honor. 

Here are three Buffalo Bills who should eventually receive football immortality: 

Quarterback Josh Allen

The two-time Pro Bowler has only played six NFL seasons, but he's been performing at a Hall of Fame-level pace to begin his career. Allen, the seventh overall pick in 2018, is on his way to becoming one of the greatest dual-threat quarterbacks in NFL history, as he's on pace to break the all-time rushing touchdown record by a signal-caller.

Already Buffalo's third all-time leading passer (22,703 yards), Allen needed time to develop into the player he is today, but since 2020, he's firmly been considered one of the three best quarterbacks in the NFL. In 2023, Allen set several NFL records, including becoming the first player in league history to post four consecutive seasons with at least 40 total touchdowns. He set the single-season record for most games with a passing and rushing touchdown (11).

Allen still needs to win a Super Bowl to be considered an all-time great, but he doesn't necessarily need a ring to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After all, five Hall of Fame quarterbacks — Dan Marino, Warren Moon, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Fouts and Jim Kelly — never hoisted the Lombardi Trophy. 

Outside linebacker Von Miller 

Miller's Bills tenure hasn't gotten off to the start he or the team envisioned when he signed a six-year, $120M deal during the 2022 free-agency period. Even so, the 35-year-old is on the short list of active players who will eventually earn the honor of being named a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

The No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft emerged as one of the league's premier pass-rushers during his debut season with the Denver Broncos. Not only did Miller win Defensive Rookie of the Year honors that season, but he also earned the first of his eight career Pro Bowl selections while being named an All-Pro second-teamer.

The most notable season of Miller's career came in 2015 when he helped Denver hold the Carolina Panthers to just 10 points in Super Bowl 50, winning the game's MVP Award. Miller would go on to win his second championship — Super Bowl LVI — with the Rams in February 2022 after being traded to Los Angeles in the middle of that season. 

Overall, Miller leads all active players in sacks (123.5) while ranking second in tackles for loss (164) behind Calais Campbell. If Miller can return to form this season and help the Bills capture their first Lombardi Trophy, he'll become the first player in NFL history to win a Super Bowl with three different franchises. 

Defensive tackle Kyle Williams 

Considering he wasn't named on the initial list of 175 semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024, Williams is likely a longshot to be inducted into Canton. However, according to Pro Football Reference's Hall of Fame monitor, Williams accomplished enough during his career to warrant being considered a fringe Hall of Famer.

A fifth-round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, Williams spent his 13-year career with the Bills, playing in 183 games, the seventh-most in team history. The six-time Pro Bowler finished his career with 48.5 sacks, the sixth-most in Bills history, and 609 tackles, the 16th-most among defensive tackles in NFL history. Williams ranks 10th all-time in QB hits, though it's worth noting that stat began to be officially recorded in 2006.