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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was left out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 2026 class with Bill Belichick, according to multiple reports Tuesday.
Kraft was in the same category with Belichick, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig and LC Greenwood. The Pro Football Hall of Famers were tasked with choosing three of the five from the group, and it appeared the two architects of the Patriots’ six Super Bowl titles won’t be inducted in Canton this time around.
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft during opening night of Super Bowl LX at the San Jose Convention Center on February 2, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Image Images)
The 84-year-old billionaire had been a Patriots season-ticket holder since the 1970s and was finally able to purchase the team in 1994. Bill Parcells was the team’s head coach when he took over and Pete Carroll was at the helm for three seasons before Belichick joined the team.
Under Belichick, the Patriots had the most success. He made the decision to put Tom Brady in a game for an injured Drew Bledsoe and, really, the rest was history. The Kraft-Belichick-Brady era earned the Patriots six Super Bowl titles. Kraft’s tenure now has the Patriots leading the way to a seventh Super Bowl championship against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
But as with the Belichick snub, NFL fans were equally perplexed by Kraft being left off the ballot as well.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft speaks to the crowd, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, during a Patriots NFL farewell football rally in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for Super Bowl LX. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday expressed support for Belichick and Kraft’s Hall of Fame status, while maintaining that the league really had nothing to do with the voting process.
“Bill Belichick’s record is evident, the same with the Patriots and Robert Kraft, who is also a candidate,” he said at a press conference prior to Super Bowl LX. They are spectacular. “They have contributed a lot to this game and I think they will be members of the Hall of Fame.”
As fate would have it, not this week.
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick announces he is leaving the team during a news conference at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Jan. 11, 2024. Belichick, the NFL mastermind who has guided the New England Patriots to a record six Super Bowl titles as head coach, is parting ways with the team after 24 seasons. (JOSÉ PREZIOSO/AFP)
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame class will be revealed later this week.
