Gronk says Tom Brady might be a ‘fourth-ballot’ Corridor of Famer after Kraft’s snub

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SAN FRANCISCO – Simply days after it was reported that Bill Belichick was not voted into the Corridor of Fame, it was revealed that one other pillar of the New England Patriots dynasty can even miss out.

Robert Kraft has reportedly not obtained sufficient votes to be inducted into Canton, regardless of six Tremendous Bowl titles and, together with this yr, 11 appearances.

When requested by Fox Information Digital on radio row in San Francisco forward of Tremendous Bowl LX if anybody from the Patriots dynasty days will get in, Rob Gronkowski, who received three with New England, joked, "I do not assume so."

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Rob Gronkowski sits on the bench throughout an NFL recreation. (Jim Rogash/Getty Pictures)

"I believe Tom Brady now's going to be a fourth-ballot Corridor of Famer," he continued.

"RKK, I imply, how has he not been in but? I imply, that is his tenth Tremendous Bowl (it's his eleventh). He is within the Tremendous Bowl once more this yr. He was in Tremendous Bowls earlier than even the Belichick-Brady period. I imply, man's the best owner in the league ."

Gronkowski additionally praised Kraft's means to develop the sport off the sector, as properly.

"Not simply his resume with the New England Patriots, however his resume for the sport of soccer as properly, simply coping with the TV rights contracts, with the NFL and NFLPA and with all of the homeowners. This man has a voice for the NFL. He has helped broaden the sport.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft speaks to the group, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, throughout a Patriots NFL soccer Ship Off rally in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for Tremendous Bowl LX. (AP Picture/Steven Senne)

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"RKK, , with simply his resume alone as properly with the New England Patriots, and what he has carried out as an entire for the NFL, I imply, he must be within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame. He might be, however he ought to have already been."

In a separate interview with Fox Information Digital final week, Gronk said Belichick's snub was "asinine."

"This man not solely has a fantastic resume, however he has additionally touched so many lives within the recreation of soccer in very optimistic means. From gamers to coaches, he gave so many individuals alternatives and truthful alternatives as properly to achieve life. And that is what he certain has carried out. And it is simply unbelievable that he wasn't chosen. He is clearly going to be a Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer, but it surely was simply absurd it wasn't the primary poll."

New England Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick and Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft watch the sector in the course of the warm-up interval earlier than a recreation towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Gillette Stadium. (Eric Canha/USA TODAY Sports activities)

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Belichick and Kraft have mixed for 14 Lombardi Trophy victories, but it surely has been broadly speculated that Belichick is serving a de facto punishment for Spygate and Deflategate. Maybe Kraft is now getting the identical remedy.