The process to nominate three players in the seniors category for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 started with 182 nominations. The Seniors Screening Committee reduced that number to 60, and the Seniors Blue-Ribbon Committee has now cut the candidate list to 31, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced on Tuesday.

Linebackers Maxie Baughan from Bessemer High School and Lee Roy Jordan from Excel High School and Alabama were on the list of 60, but Jordan did not make it through the Seniors Blue-Ribbon Committee vote for the top 25 candidates (which became 31 players because of ties). Baughan is among the 31 remaining in consideration.

In November, that list will be reduced to nine semifinalists before the three finalists will be decided in December.

To be a seniors candidate, the nominee cannot have played in the past 25 seasons. For this year’s class, seniors candidates played their entire NFL careers before the 2000 season.

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Jordan was a modern-era finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 1988. Fred Biletnikoff, Mike Ditka, Jack Ham and Alan Page were the modern-era nominees who entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in that class.

Of the modern-era finalists for the Class of 1988, Jordan is the only one not enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. While Buck Buchanan from Parker High School, Bob Griese, Leroy Kelly, Tom Mack, Art Shell and Lynn Swann didn’t make the cut that year, they eventually were elected.

The sixth player selected in the 1963 NFL Draft, Jordan spent his entire 14 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. Jordan earned Pro Bowl recognition in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973 and 1974.

His 19 playoff appearances included the fifth, sixth and 10th Super Bowls, and he also played in two NFL championship games before the league’s Super Bowl era. The Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in Super Bowl VI on Jan. 16, 1972, with Jordan at middle linebacker.

Jordan’s 32 interceptions are the most for an Alabama alumnus in the NFL, and his 174 NFL regular-season starts rank fifth on the Crimson Tide’s list.

At Alabama, Jordan was a unanimous All-American selection in 1962. He helped Alabama win coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s first national championship in 1961, and he closed his Crimson Tide career with 31 tackles in a 17-0 victory over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1963.

Jordan joined the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

Baughan was among the 12 semifinalists for seniors consideration last year. But the seniors candidates were linebacker Randy Gradishar, defensive tackle Steve McMichael and wide receiver Art Powell.

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

The Eagles won the NFL championship in Baughan’s first pro season in 1960, when he 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.

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

The players remaining in consideration to be among the three seniors nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 include:

Quarterbacks: Ken Anderson, Charlie Conerly, Jim Plunkett

Running backs: Ottis Anderson, Roger Craig, Chuck Foreman, Cecil Isbell, Paul “Tank” Younger

Wide receivers: Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, Stanley Morgan, Art Powell, Sterling Sharpe, Otis Taylor

Offensive linemen: Ox Emerson, Joe Jacoby, Mike Kenn, Bob Kuechenberg, George Kunz, Jim Tyrer, Al Wistert

Defensive linemen: Jim Marshall, Harvey Martin

Linebackers: Carl Banks, Maxie Baughan, Larry Grantham, Clay Matthews Jr., Tommy Nobis

Defensive backs: Lester Hayes, Albert Lewis, Eddie Meador, Everson Walls

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