He'll probably have to wait a little bit. His acceptance speech would a lot of fun.
Alexander deserves in more regardless and he hasn't picked up any traction.
The HOF is just as much about narratives is it is about stats.
Alexander was a soft runner in a physical era of football. The dude would fold when people so much as looked at him funny. He even would do the QB slide sometimes to avoid contact. Alexander was all about the business decisions. He could run hard, he just did so only when he was at the goal line.
He also had the benefit of playing behind two first ballet HOFers, and a pro-bowler center. As soon as Hutchinson left, he looked very meh even before his injury. Mack Strong was also one of the better fullbacks in the NFL.
Lynch on the other hand is part of the modern NFL mythos. In 2010, the team dubbed the worst playoff team ever knocked out the SuperBowl champs in a spectacular fashion. The beastquake is considered one of the best runs of all time, then you add the fact that the noise from that event measured on the Richter scale and you have a legend in the making.
while Lynch was on the team, it was never Russell’s team. Everyone rallied around Lynch, not the QB. Russ was an accessory piece, a rarity for the modern NFL.
The Seahawks for 4 years terrorized the NFL with Lynch being one of the main linchpin. Then, to add to his legacy we have the interception at the end of regulation against the Pats. The number one piece of rhetoric surrounding the game was Lynch.
In addition to that, Lynch also had a cult of personality surrounding him. He was an enigmatic character that did what he pleased. He didn’t care what people said about him. He had one of the most infamous interviews we’ve seen with his “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” interview. He was a larger than life sort of person.
It would not surprise me one bit if Lynch gets the HOF before Alexander.