{"id":733135,"date":"2026-02-06T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:51:13","slug":"watch-the-touching-moment-panthers-great-luke-kuechly-found-out-he-was-a-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733135\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the touching moment Panthers great Luke Kuechly found out he was a Hall of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 5, 2026, 10:55 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The call might&#8217;ve come a year later than it should have, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> legend Luke Kuechly is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. So, how did he find out?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kuechly, along with four others, was <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/02\/05\/panthers-luke-kuechly-pro-football-hall-of-fame-nfl-honors\/88504066007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially etched<\/a> into football immortality during NFL Honors on Thursday night. And shortly following the announcement, the hall&#8217;s Twitter\/X account posted a video of the very moment that the former linebacker heard the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Oh, and it features a pretty special guest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Take a look . . .<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Welcoming Kuechly in was an old teammate, Pro Football Hall of Fame defender Julius Peppers. Peppers was <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2024\/08\/03\/panthers-julius-peppers-enshrined-2024-pro-football-hall-of-fame-ceremony\/74660733007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inducted<\/a> two years ago, as a first-ballot honoree in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He and Kuechly played a pair of campaigns together after Peppers&#8217; return to Carolina in 2017. The two helped the Panthers to their last playoff appearance before this season&#8217;s NFC South title win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kuechly will become the first player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame to play his entire career with the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 5, 2026, 10:55 p.m. ET The call might&#8217;ve come a year later than it should have, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,105953,105537,95895,95906,100024,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-733135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagjulius-peppers","20":"tag-tagluke-kuechly","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagpro-football-hall-of-fame","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-tagtwitter","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116023072445815452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733135","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=733135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}