{"id":762875,"date":"2026-04-30T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:07:12","slug":"gronkowski-selected-for-patriots-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762875\/","title":{"rendered":"Gronkowski selected for Patriots Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The New England Patriots announced that former tight end Rob Gronkowski will be inducted into the team&#8217;s Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>Gronkowski, known as &#8220;Gronk,&#8221; will be the 38th inductee.  <\/p>\n<p>He spent nine seasons in New England and helped the team win three Super Bowls. <\/p>\n<p>He joins wide receiver Julian Edelman, who was selected last year, quarterback Tom Brady, and head coach Mike Vrabel in the Patriots Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jules just gave me a little, you know, voicemail, text message thing. He loves those, he lives and dies for them, and usually I read them, but I listened to this one,&#8221; Gronkowski said Wednesday at a press conference from his pontoon boat in Florida. &#8220;He congratulated me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Gronkowski ranks first in Patriots history with 79 total regular-season touchdowns and 521 catches for more than 7,800 receiving yards, the second-most in team history. <\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> <strong>&lt;&lt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other finalists for this year&#8217;s Hall of Fame included kicker Adam Vinatieri and guard Logan Mankins. <\/p>\n<p>Gronkowski said he first learned of his selection when he received a voicemail from team owner Robert Kraft. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had absolutely no clue when the induction was going to happen or when it was ending. So, it caught me off guard a little bit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was in my sauna last night, and I listened to his voicemail at 10:30 last night. So, it was really, really cool and that&#8217;s why I will be keeping that voicemail forever, because it was the first time I heard about me going into the Patriots Hall of Fame.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said he is grateful to have been part of the organization. <\/p>\n<p>The date for Gronkowski&#8217;s induction ceremony will be announced after the 2026 NFL schedule is released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 The New England Patriots announced that former tight end Rob Gronkowski will be inducted into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[17746,1318,219097,46371,59062,313473,13940,533,1232,32630,313470,313469,313472,7219,313471,313476,6658,313474,62,313477,3007,104449,313475,67,132,68,15613],"class_list":["post-762875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-fame","tag-football","tag-gronk","tag-gronkowski","tag-hall-of-fame","tag-head-coach-mike-vrabel","tag-last-year","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots","tag-patriots-hall","tag-patriots-hall-of-fame","tag-pontoon-boat","tag-press-conference","tag-quarterback-tom-brady","tag-receiving-yard","tag-rob-gronkowski","tag-second-most","tag-sports","tag-super-bowls","tag-team","tag-tight-end","tag-total-regular-season-touchdown","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wednesday"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116491691506952142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}