Patriots' Robert Kraft misses out on Pro Football Hall of Fame: reports

New England Patriots squad proprietor Robert Kraft was near connected the extracurricular of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s people of 2026 with Bill Belichick, according to aggregate reports connected Tuesday.

Kraft was successful the aforesaid class with Belichick, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig and L.C. Greenwood. Pro Football Hall of Famers were tasked with choosing 3 of the 5 from the radical and it appeared the 2 architects of the Patriots’ six Super Bowl titles volition not beryllium inducted into Canton this clip around.

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New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft during Opening Night for Super Bowl LX astatine San Jose Convention Center connected Feb. 2, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

The 84-year-old billionaire had been a Patriots season-ticket holder since the 1970s and was capable to yet bargain the squad successful 1994. Bill Parcells was the team’s caput manager erstwhile helium took implicit and Pete Carroll was astatine the helm for 3 seasons earlier Belichick joined the team.

With Belichick, the Patriots had the astir success. He made the determination to enactment Tom Brady into a crippled for an injured Drew Bledsoe and, really, the remainder was history. The Kraft-Belichick-Brady epoch garnered the Patriots six Super Bowl titles. Kraft’s tenure present has the Patriots astatine the forefront of a seventh Super Bowl title against the Seattle Seahawks connected Sunday.

But overmuch similar with the Belichick snub, NFL fans were arsenic perplexed with Kraft being near disconnected the ballot arsenic well.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft speaks to the crowd, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, during a Patriots NFL shot Send Off rally successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, for Super Bowl LX. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell connected Monday expressed enactment for Belichick and Kraft’s Hall of Fame presumption portion maintaining that the league had thing to truly bash with the voting process.

"Bill Belichick’s grounds goes without saying – aforesaid with the Patriots and Robert Kraft, who is besides a candidate," helium said astatine a pre-Super Bowl LX property conference. They’re spectacular. They’ve contributed to overmuch to this crippled and I judge they’ll beryllium Hall of Famers."

As destiny would person it, conscionable not this week.

New England Patriots caput manager Bill Belichick announces helium is leaving the squad during a property league astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, connected January 11, 2024. Belichick, the NFL mastermind who has guided the New England Patriots to a grounds six Super Bowl titles arsenic caput coach, is parting ways with the squad aft 24 seasons. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP)

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame people volition beryllium revealed aboriginal this week.

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