{"id":735968,"date":"2026-02-07T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735968\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:07:14","slug":"saints-celebrate-drew-brees-hall-of-fame-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735968\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints celebrate 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 Pro Football Hall of Fame&#8217;s Class of 2026, becoming the inaugural first-ballot Hall of Famer in franchise history. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/drew-brees-hall-of-fame-class-2026-saints-teammates-reactions-coaches-media\" title=\"Saints teammates, coaches, and media react to Drew Brees Hall of Fame announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 One of the most foregone professional sports conclusions in the history of foregone professional sports conclusions was concluded Thursday night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater. Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who spent the final 15 years of his 20-year career in New Orleans, was introduced as a member of the 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction class. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/drew-brees-and-the-saints-celebrate-a-historic-hall-of-fame-selection\" title=\"Drew Brees and the Saints celebrate a historic Hall of Fame selection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/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":735969,"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-735968","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\/116030213122783902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735968","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=735968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}