Pittsburgh Steelers "super scout" Bill Nunn has been selected as a nominee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Contributor Committee.
Nunn is best known for help building the Steelers' dynasty of the 1970s, helping draft John Stallworth, Mel Blount and Donnie Shell along with helping locate talent at small colleges including Jack Lambert from Kent State.
All of those players are in the Hall of Fame.
Before joining the Steelers, Nunn worked as a sportswriter at the Pittsburgh Courier and joined the Steelers in 1968.
The Homewood native was with the Steelers until 2013. He passed away in 2014.
"You don't know how much this means to us," Nunn's daughter, Lynell Wilson, said when reached moments after the vote by David Baker, president and CEO of the Hall of Fame.
The Contributor Committee is made up of nine members of the Hall of Fame's Seletion Committee and "considers individuals who made outstanding contributions to professional football in capacities other than playing or coaching."
Nunn must get 80 percent of voting support by the entire Selection Committee on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
The entire 2021 class will be enshrined on August 8, 2021.
