Special teams great Mitchell to retire a Redskin

Brian Mitchell announced that he will retire from the NFL next week, and he will do it as a member of the team where he saw his greatest success, the Washington Redskins. Believe it or not, counting return yardage, Mitchell retires 2nd in total all purpose yards behind only Jerry Rice. Personally I think that should merit consideration for the Hall of Fame, but I think Mitchell will be a long shot, time will tell I guess. Mitchell had over 23,000 total yards in his career. I remember Mitchell being a great athelte, a great returner, and also a great special teams player in general. I think he would also have made a great 3rd down back, a role which he played a little for the Skins but not as much as he should have. Mitchell even played quarterback for about a quarter when all of the other QB's were hurt in a game against the Eagles a few years ago.

You can read about it here from Yahoo:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1393&ncid=1393&e=3&u=/ap/20050211/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_redskins_mitchell