Larry Fitzgerald Jr., the 2025 Heisman Humanitarian, was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2026 Thursday (Feb. 5) in his first year of eligibility.<\/p>\n
Fitzgerald Jr. is joined in the Hall of Fame class by two-time Heisman finalist Drew Brees as well as Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatiere and Roger Craig.<\/p>\n
Fitzgerald Jr., honored during the 2025 Heisman Trophy weekend in New York, starred at Pittsburgh where he earned unanimous All-American honors in 2003, finishing a close second in the Heisman Trophy voting behind winner Jason White.<\/p>\n
In 17 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals (2004-2020), Fitzgerald had 1,432 receptions for 17,492 yards and 121 touchdowns in 263 games. He is second on the NFL\u2019s career receptions and receiving yards lists and sixth in touchdown receptions.<\/p>\n
The third overall draft pick in 2004 was also an 11-time Pro Bowl selection, Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, and an Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award recipient.<\/p>\n
Brees, the two-time Heisman finalist, finished fourth in 1999 and third in 2000, receiving 69 first-place votes in the latter season.<\/p>\n
There are 10 Heisman Trophy winners in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The most recent Heisman addition to the Hall was Charles Woodson in 2021.<\/p>\n
Fitzgerald Jr. is now the second Heisman Humanitarian in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, joining Alan Page, the 2016 Heisman Humanitarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Fitzgerald Jr., the 2025 Heisman Humanitarian, was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,7,107156,75735,6,1371],"class_list":{"0":"post-745506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-heisman-humanitarian","14":"tag-larry-fitzgerald-jr","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053759450378011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745506","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=745506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}