{"id":735054,"date":"2026-02-07T05:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:33:26","slug":"saints-teammates-coaches-and-media-react-to-drew-brees-hall-of-fame-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735054\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints teammates, coaches, and media react to Drew Brees Hall of Fame announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 5, 2026 during the 15th annual NFL Honors award ceremony, it was announced that New Orleans Saints legendary quarterback Drew Brees will be inducted as part of the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/hall-of-fame\/\" title=\"Saints in Canton | Pro Football Hall of Fame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2026<\/a>, becoming the inaugural first-ballot Hall of Famer in franchise history. Brees and the rest of the class will be enshrined at the Pro Football Hall of Fame&#8217;s Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio in August.<\/p>\n<p>Several current Saints players, former teammates and coaches, along with media members reacted to the news and offered congratulations for the 20-year NFL legend:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On February 5, 2026 during the 15th annual NFL Honors award ceremony, it was announced that New Orleans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[13189,7,81,2985,896,55,2572,2571,6,1371,397,25689],"class_list":["post-735054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-saints","tag-drew-brees","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-videos","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanssaints","tag-nfl","tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame","tag-saints","tag-saints-legends"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027721163316111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735054","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=735054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}