{"id":246435,"date":"2025-07-29T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246435\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:30:20","slug":"former-new-orleans-saint-elected-to-pro-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246435\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New Orleans Saint Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pro Football Hall of Fame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/43727435\/te-antonio-gates-smallest-hall-fame-class-2005\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced its 2025 class yesterday<\/a> and one of the players elected spent time as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/1033thegoat.com\/tags\/new-orleans-saints\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Saints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Allen<\/a>, who played for the Saints from 1995 to 1997, was among the four players chosen for enshrinement later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Allen<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Daniel \/ Allsport, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles drafted Allen out of Arizona State in the second round of the 1988 Draft. He spent his first seven seasons with the team before joining the Black &amp; Gold as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/1033thegoat.com\/ixp\/36\/p\/new-orleans-super-bowl-superdome\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fans Notice Important Piece to Superdome Missing Before Super Bowl LIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After his three seasons in New Orleans, Allen wrapped up his career with the Oakland Raiders, playing there from 1998 to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Allen tallied 54 interceptions, which is good for 21st-most in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Eagles v San Francisco 49ers<\/p>\n<p>George Rose, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He was a six-time Pro Bowler, including in 1995 with the Saints. Allen also made three All-Pro teams; a first-team nod in 1989 and two times second-team, in 1991 and 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Other players making the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year include tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/5362\/antonio-gates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Gates<\/a> (San Diego), defensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/5651\/jared-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Allen<\/a> (Minnesota Vikings, Kansas Chiefs, Chicago Bears, Carolina Panthers), and wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/6439\/sterling-sharpe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Sharpe<\/a> (Green Bay Packers).<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s four-man class is the smallest since 2005. That&#8217;s the year Dan Marino, Steve Young, Fritz Pollard, and Benny Friedman were enshrined.<\/p>\n<p>The Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony will take place on August 2, 2025, in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748363506_706_attachment-900-1.jpg\" alt=\"103.3 The GOAT logo\"\/>NFL Records Held By New Orleans Saints Players<\/p>\n<p>A number of current and former members of the New Orleans Saints hold NFL records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/1033thegoat.com\/nfl-records-held-by-new-orleans-saints-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Prather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its 2025 class yesterday and one of the players elected spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,5487,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-246435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-louisiana-sports","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114938893020302299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}