Sf, being a long-time Md. native and Baltimore resident, if you're aware of some of the older mid/late 70's Colts Pro-Bowlers, then you've likely heard of former Raiders/Baltimore Colts Pro Bowl TE Raymond Chester. He began his career with the Oakland Raiders in 1972 and after several decent seasons, he was traded to Baltimore before the 1975 season and had a three-year stretch (75-77) where he mightve been the best Colts TE since HOF John Mackey, who had retired after the 1974 season. He left the Colts following the 1977 season due to conflicts with Colts FO and its drunken, loudmouth, frankly, idiotic owner, Robert Irsay (a man who still attracts significant hatred and derision from Baltimore-area sports fans 55 and older).
My question to you, is this: based on his overall career statistics, do you think Chester is a HOF caliber TE based on the context of the time he played in the NFL and overall production he amassed at his position. Chester won a Super Bowl with Oakland in 1980 and mostly played on very good, often great perennial playoff teams. if you ask other SR.com members on here and Md. residents like Saintsmdterps, who grew up being diehard Colts fans, their response, I'd like to think, would be yes.
I sort of raised this question in my early reply to Optimus Prime in his original thread about Brian Mitchell being a HOF-worthy special teams player? BTW, I also concur with you about Tasker being a HOF, in fact Tasker wasnt such a bad, talented #3 WR at times and made some big, crucial plays in the postseason during Bills four consecutive SB appearances in the early 1990's.