For 20 seasons, Drew Brees played the quarterback position in the NFL, and for most of that time, there were very few players who did it better than he did.
Perhaps he wasn’t quite Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, but he was an old-fashioned gunslinger who helped run up the scoreboard while bringing the New Orleans Saints a Super Bowl championship in the 2009 season.
About three years after he retired, Brees has now been inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame, and he talked about how grateful he is for the honor, per the team’s official Twitter account.
Opening statement from @DrewBrees on his #Saints Hall of Fame announcement: pic.twitter.com/IupmXEuUo7
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) May 30, 2024
Brees was originally drafted by the then-San Diego Chargers in 2001 with the No. 32 pick in the draft, and after barely playing as a rookie, he started to emerge over the next couple of years.
In 2004, he made the Pro Bowl for the first time while taking the Chargers to the playoffs for the first time since 1995.
But he was a free agent after the 2005 campaign, and with Philip Rivers, who was drafted in 2004, looking promising, Brees signed with the Saints.
There, he truly took off, and he would lead the NFL in passing yards seven times in the next 11 seasons, completion percentage six times, and passing touchdowns four times between 2008 and 2012.
In all, he made the Pro Bowl 13 times and was named Offensive Player of the Year twice, and he also threw at least one touchdown pass in 54 consecutive games, which is a league record.
Through it all, he transformed a Saints franchise that had long been a laughingstock into one that made the playoffs more often than not.
In a couple of years, Brees will certainly receive his greatest honor when he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame once his mandatory five-year waiting period is over.
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