Browsing: there will be one finalist who will be grouped with one coaching candidate and three senior candidates for consideration by the full selection committee for the Hall early next year.

       Robinson coached three AFL players who would later be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: the Kansas City Chiefs’ Buck Buchanan, the Oakland Raiders’ Willie Brown, and the San Diego Chargers’ Charlie Joiner. Robinson also coached James Harris, who, with the AFL’s Buffalo Bills, became the first Black quarterback in modern Pro Football history to start at that position in a season opener.