{"id":735132,"date":"2026-02-07T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:20:22","slug":"drew-brees-named-to-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735132\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Brees named to Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, Drew Brees was announced as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class of 2026. On Aug. 8 in Canton, Ohio, he&#8217;ll become the fifth player to spend the majority of his career with the New Orleans Saints to be enshrined. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/by-the-numbers-why-is-drew-brees-a-hall-of-famer-let-us-count-the\/article_e610b07c-74ab-47e2-9fa5-cfd2e2d48bf3.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"By the numbers: Why is Drew Brees a Hall of Famer? Let us count the ways.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Orleans Saints legendary quarterback Drew Brees was officially announced as a 2026 Pro Football Hall of Famer on Thursday night, and the congratulations were in order. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/drew_brees\/saints-love-drew-brees-hall-of-fame\/article_2ad58a61-6cff-4965-9fa0-e66e34d510fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Saints legend Drew Brees receives love from former teammates, fans after Hall of Fame induction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 From cast-off to Canton. New Orleans Saints legend Drew Brees completed one of the most improbable journeys in pro football history Thursday when he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member in the class of 2026. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/drew-brees-earns-pro-football-hall-of-fame-induction-on-first-ballot-nfl-2026\/article_bd77d02a-6a25-4387-bed4-e085602d1ff5.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Saints legend Drew Brees makes history, earns Hall of Fame induction on first ballot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough was named the 2025 Pepsi Zero Sugar NFL Rookie of the Year, NFL officials announced Thursday. Shough received the most votes in an online poll conducted by the league. This is the 24th year of the award. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/tyler-shough-tops-fan-voting-for-rookie-of-the-year-award\/article_1c7c7bd7-0238-4362-a324-f8ca5df2adb3.html\" title=\"The fans have spoken: Saints quarterback Tyler Shough is the NFL\u2019s top rookie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I asked Luke Kuechly about Drew Brees&#8217; Pro Football Hall of Fame credentials, he didn&#8217;t mince words. &#8220;He&#8217;s a no-brainer,&#8221; said Kuechly, the great Carolina Panthers linebacker, who battled Brees twice annually during his stellar career. &#8220;If Drew Brees doesn&#8217;t get in on first ballot, we should be asking, &#8216;What are we doing here?'&#8221; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/the-case-for-drew-brees-2026-hall-of-fame-candidacy\/article_e710b7b3-648c-4dbe-9c52-347033c12597.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jeff Duncan: The Hall of Fame case for Drew Brees, the greatest Saints player of all-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday night, Drew Brees was announced as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-735132","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-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027906896727289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735132","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=735132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}