Twelve candidates in the Seniors category and 12 other individuals in the Coach/Contributor category have moved another step closer to election as members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024.

The Hall’s Seniors Committee trimmed a list of 31 Semifinalists to these former players: Ken Anderson, Maxie Baughan, Roger Craig, Randy Gradishar, Joe Jacoby, Albert Lewis, Steve McMichael, Eddie Meador, Art Powell, Sterling Sharpe, Otis Taylor and Al Wistert.

Gradishar is a Champion graduate.

Each Semifinalist played his last game in professional football no later than the 1998 season.

Separately, the Hall’s Coach/Contributor Committee further reduced its list of 29 Semifinalists to: Tom Coughlin, Mike Holmgren, Frank “Bucko” Kilroy, Robert Kraft, Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Art Rooney Jr., Marty Schottenheimer, Mike Shanahan, Clark Shaughnessy, Lloyd Wells and John Wooten.

The respective selection committees will meet to discuss the remaining candidates at length.

Coach/Contributor Committee members will meet Aug. 15 to select one Coach or Contributor for final consideration for the Class of 2024. Holmgren, Kilroy, Kraft, Parker, Reeves, Rooney, Shanahan, Shaughnessy and Wooten also reached this stage for the Class of 2023. DON CORYELL emerged as the Finalist last year and will be enshrined next week.

The Seniors Committee will meet Aug. 22 and may select up to three Seniors for final consideration as members of the Class of 2024. Expansion of the Seniors pool for election to the Hall was approved in 2022 for the Classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Anderson, Baughan, Gradishar, Meador and Sharpe reached this stage a year ago along with CHUCK HOWLEY, JOE KLECKO and KEN RILEY, who emerged as the Finalists, and each of them was elected as a member of the Class of 2023.