ALLEN PARK -- Lomas Brown is one of 52 former modern-era players to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s next round of voting for the 2026 class.
Browns leads the list of three former Detroit Lions players to make it through the latest round of cuts. The others are wide receiver Anquan Boldin and defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, who enjoyed much shorter stints in Detroit when compared to Brown.
The Lions have been making a push for Brown to make it all the way this year. They launched a website titled “The Case for Lomas Brown,” highlighting his career achievements, quotes from NFL legends across multiple generations and how he compares to other Hall of Famers.
“It’s humbling. It really is, man, because those are guys that have the Gold jackets, those are guys that played the game at the highest level and, you know, guys that I played against them,” Brown told MLive’s Dungeon of Doom podcast earlier this month. “For them to say some of the things that they’re saying, man, this is just humbling.”
Brown remains a fixture around the Lions as a color commentator alongside Dan Miller on the team’s radio broadcast network. He played 18 seasons in the NFL, including 11 for the Lions from 1985 to 1995. During his time in Detroit, Brown made six Pro Bowls and earned one first-team All-Pro nod. He made one more Pro Bowl while with the Arizona Cardinals in 1996, and capped his career with a Super Bowl title with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The offensive tackle was the master of durability, with his 263 games played and 251 starts the most in NFL history at his position. Brown is even second in games played and number of starts among all offensive linemen, trailing only Bruce Matthews.
Brown made a Pro Bowl in seven straight seasons from 1990 through the 1996 campaign. He is one of only 13 offensive tackles to ever reach seven straight Pro Bowls, with eight of those players to accomplish that feat already in the Hall of Fame, with three of the others still ineligible.
He even recently made an appearance on MLive’s Dungeon of Doom podcast to discuss his career, these current Lions and the team’s push to get him elected to the Hall of Fame. Brown even answered some mailbag questions from fans. Listen below:
From here, the 50-person selection committee will review the 52 players to make this cut and vote for the 25 they believe should be semifinalists. The next wave of cuts will be announced “in about five weeks,” per the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Between four and eight new members are enshrined each August in Canton, Ohio. The committee will eventually choose between 15 modern-era players, three from the senior category, one coach and one contributor. Neither Brown, Boldin, nor Ngata advanced to the finalist stage in last year’s voting.
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