The Seniors Committee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame will meet this week to choose three players who will be placed on the ballot for the football shrine’s Class of 2024.

Among the 12 players under consideration is former Bessemer High School standout Maxie Baughan. Already a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Baughan was a perennial Pro Bowl linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s.

In recent years, senior nominees have been virtually rubber-stamped for the Pro Football Hall of Fame once they have cleared the process to appear on the ballot. But if Baughan is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year, it will be done posthumously.

Baughan died on Saturday night in Ithaca, New York. He was 85 years old.

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The Eagles announced Baughan’s death on Sunday.

Baughan entered the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988 for his career at Georgia Tech, where he was a consensus All-American in 1959.

The 20th player picked in the 1960 NFL Draft, Baughan played his first six NFL seasons with the Eagles, spent the next five with the Rams and, after serving as the defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech, came back to play two games for the Washington Redskins as a player-coach in 1974.

Philadelphia won the NFL championship in Baughan’s first pro season in 1960, when he started every game and was chosen for the Pro Bowl.

Baughan earned a Pro Bowl invitation in nine of his first 10 NFL campaigns. He received first-team recognition at linebacker in The Associated Press’ All-Pro selections in 1964 and 1969 and was an AP second-team choice six other times.

In 1975, Baughan started a five-year stay as the Baltimore Colts’ defensive coordinator, followed by three seasons in that position with the Detroit Lions.

Baughan served as Cornell’s head coach from 1983 through 1988 and led the Big Red to the Ivy League title in 1988, the program’s first championship in 17 years.

Baughan worked as an assistant coach for 10 more seasons in the NFL before retiring.

The other players being considered by the Seniors Committee for the Class of 2024 ballot include Ken Anderson, Roger Craig, Randy Gradishar, Joe Jacoby, Albert Lewis, Steve McMichael, Eddie Meador, Art Powell, Sterling Sharpe, Otis Taylor and Al Wistert.

The Seniors Committee considers players whose careers ended at least 25 years ago.

Anderson, Baughan, Gradishar, Meador and Sharpe reached this stage in the selection process last year, along with the three senior nominees who made the Class of 2023 – Chuck Howley, Joe Klecko and Ken Riley.

In addition to the College Football Hall of Fame, Baughan also is a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and Gator Bowl Hall of Fame.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.