professor No, Eli can’t carry Peyton’s jock.
That's not the question here, though - this is in relation to Eli Manning being one of the 15 finalists for this year's Hall of Fame voting. It's possible for 'Eli isn't as good as Peyton' and 'Eli deserves to be in the Hall of Fame' to both be true at the same time, given that Peyton Manning was one of the best QBs to play the game.
(For what it's worth, I think that Eli Manning was a good QB, but not to the level of being a Hall of Famer - of the five players from the comparison I posted earlier, I'd have Stafford and Wilson clearly ahead of Manning, Rivers a little ahead, and pretty close between Manning and Ryan. There's a conversation to be had in relation to the Hall of Fame for all five, but they all (currently) fall on the 'no' side of the line in my mind.)