{"id":23777,"date":"2026-03-04T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23777"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:13:12","slug":"express-train-from-west-lafayette-to-canton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/express-train-from-west-lafayette-to-canton\/","title":{"rendered":"Express Train From West Lafayette To Canton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23778\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brees.jpg 697w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brees-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>Former Purdue quarterback Drew Brees, who led the school to their last Rose Bowl appearance in 2001, got the call to Canton last month as a member of the NFL\u2019s Hall of Fame class of 2026.\u00a0 Brees joins the hall alongside Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, and Adam Vinatieri and will be inducted August 8 in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving scholarship offers from only two schools, Brees arrived in West Lafayette as an unheralded freshman in 1997.\u00a0 He became the starter the following year and, alongside head coach Joe Tiller, helped lead a resurrection of a moribund football program.\u00a0 He left Purdue following the 2000 season with two NCAA records, thirteen Big Ten Conference records, and 19 program records.<\/p>\n<p>His NFL career began in 2001 after being selected by the Chargers in the second round of the draft.\u00a0 After backing up Doug Flutie in his rookie season, Brees became the starting quarterback for the Chargers for the majority of the following four seasons.\u00a0 Following the 2005 season, Brees became a free agent and headed to New Orleans, where he became a legend.\u00a0 In 2009, he led the Saints to their first Super Bowl appearance and championship in franchise history.\u00a0 He retired in 2021 as a thirteen-time Pro Bowler, two-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, the 2006 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, and holding eight league records and fourteen Saints franchise records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Purdue quarterback Drew Brees, who led the school to their last Rose Bowl appearance in 2001, got the call to Canton last month as a member of the NFL\u2019s Hall of Fame class of 2026.\u00a0 Brees joins the hall alongside Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, and Adam Vinatieri and will be inducted August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[12348,2698,289,3582,12350,2501,12344,10991,12349,12346,12347,3690,12345,4680,12351,3433,12352],"class_list":["post-23777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-adam-vinatieri","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-chargers","tag-doug-flutie","tag-draft","tag-drew-brees","tag-football-hof","tag-joe-tiller","tag-larry-fitzgerald","tag-luke-kuechly","tag-ncaa","tag-roger-craig","tag-rose-bowl","tag-saints","tag-super-bowl","tag-walter-payton-nfl-man-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23852,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions\/23852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}