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While with the New Orleans Saints, Drew Brees threw for 68,010 passing yards, 491 touchdowns, totaled 6,017 completions, stacked 142 victories, posted five All-Pro seasons and registered 12 Pro Bowl nods — ultimately earning a first-ballot induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“I want the world to know how hard he worked,” says Tom House, Brees’ throwing coach, who helped him redesign his throw after a labrum tear in his final season with the San Diego Chargers in 2005.
Together, the two of them didn’t just rehabilitate Brees’ arm, they invented a new way of thinking about how quarterbacks throw a football.
“I believe his injury ended up helping quarterbacks in football everywhere they are in the world today,” says House. “I know he gets credit for being good. But I don’t think anyone understands his contribution to the physical act of throwing a football.”
Scroll to follow the kinetic sequence — from the ground up — and discover how elite mechanics turned Drew Brees into a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Quarterbacks will continue to chase Brees’ production, and many have already adopted pieces of the process that helped make it possible. Every adjustment, every repetition and every refinement became part of an enduring legacy that still influences the game today.
Brees will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, August 8, 2026, becoming the first first-ballot Hall of Famer in franchise history.