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Tim Brown reflects on Hall of Fame selection, impressed by Amari Cooper

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Tim Brown will finally be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August after an 11-year wait.

The former Oakland Raiders star wide receiver will enter Canton alongside Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Bill Polian, the late Junior Seau, Will Shields, Mick Tingelhoff, and Ron Wolf.

Brown reflected upon his impending selection to the Hall of Fame on Saturday.

"One of the things that Aeneas Williams told me the night they made the announcement when I saw him at the hotel downtown 'do not let this be a whirlwind for you," Brown said to SB Nation's Levi Damien. "Take every event you go to in, take every day in, every time somebody says congratulations, stop and acknowledge it because this is a once in a lifetime deal. You never get this opportunity again. So, from that standpoint, I've tried not to let it be a whirlwind, I try to take it all in."

An ambassador of sorts for the Raiders, Brown said he's more than willing to impart his advice to wide receiver Amari Cooper, who Oakland selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft.

"I said to him on Twitter the night he was drafted 'if you need me or when you need me or if you wanna talk, you know where I am. You could always get ahold of me' but I don't feel it's my place to interject myself into his life. He knows how I feel and I told him at the Heisman ceremony that I hope if he decides to come out that the Raiders would be there to draft him because I just felt that he was the perfect guy to come in and really take the receiver position to the next level."

There are a number of legitimate candidates eligible for the Hall of Fame at wide receiver and Brown expressed concern that former Indianapolis Colts great Marvin Harrison would be chosen before him.

"I felt this year - if I didn't make it that was one thing - but if they put Marvin Harrison in before me then there was going to be a problem. I did realize that and I think I've been in this game and I've been around the Hall of Fame game long enough to understand that if that happens and there's an issue that's not being worked out in that meeting room."

After a career where he captured the Heisman Trophy in 1987 and was named to nine Pro Bowls, Brown's selection to Canton is well deserved and the 48-year-old is ready to thrive in the moment.

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