Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft among 5 finalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame

Two members of the New England Patriots dynasty are 1 measurement person to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 

Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft and erstwhile caput manager Bill Belichick are among 5 radical named finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Belichick would participate successful the manager class portion Kraft would participate successful the contributor category. 

Ken Anderson, Roger Craig and L.C. Greenwood were besides named finalists successful the seniors category. 

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New England Patriots caput manager Bill Belichick shakes hands with proprietor Robert Kraft earlier the game. The Patriots mislaid to the New York Giants, 10-7, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected Nov. 26. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The members of the 50-person enactment committee tin ballot for 3 of the finalists, and the candidates request 80% of the ballot to beryllium inducted. If nary campaigner receives 80% of the vote, the apical vote-getter gets elected, meaning astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic volition get inducted.

No much than 3 candidates volition beryllium inducted from the radical of five, arsenic lone 3 tin get the requisite 80%. 

Belichick was hired by Kraft successful 2000 and led the franchise to six Super Bowl titles and 3 different appearances successful the rubric crippled during an 18-year span from 2001 to 2018. Belichick’s 333 wins successful the regular play and playoffs with the Patriots and Cleveland Browns are the 2nd astir down Don Shula’s 347. He won AP NFL Coach of the Year 3 times.

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North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick watches from the sidelines during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA shot crippled against Charlotte successful Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025.  (Nell Redmond/AP)

Belichick besides had occurrence anterior to joining the Patriots, arsenic helium won 2 Super Bowls arsenic the New York Giants' antiaircraft coordinator. 

Kraft bought the Patriots successful 1994, and the team's 10 Super Bowl appearances since past are the astir for immoderate proprietor successful NFL history. The squad went to the Super Bowl successful its 3rd play nether Bill Parcells and past 9 much times with Belichick arsenic coach.

Kraft has been a subordinate of respective NFL ownership committees and played a cardinal relation successful resolving the 2011 lockout.

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However, Belichick’s and Kraft’s narration has turned icy successful caller years. Kraft said connected a podcast quality implicit successful May, that hiring Belichick was a large risk. Belichick responded, saying that taking that occupation was a large risk.

Belichick said successful September that New England Patriots unit members were barred from the North Carolina shot program, wherever helium present coaches. The legendary manager said that due to the fact that helium isn’t invited astatine the Patriots' facility, squad staffers aren’t invited astatine his. 

Regardless of the presumption of their relationship, determination is simply a accidental they some locomotion into the Pro Football Hall of Fame together. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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