As a committee prepares to select a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist in the coaching category for the 2025 class, Broncos coach Sean Payton had a simple message regarding Mike Shanahan’s candidacy.
“It’s easy,” Payton said Monday. “It’s all there in front of you.”
Shanahan, the winningest coach in Broncos history and back-to-back Super Bowl champion, is one of nine semifinalists slated to be considered Tuesday when the Coach Blue-Ribbon Committee said it was next set to meet.
According to a news release last month announcing the nine semifinalists, the committee, “will discuss the Semifinalists at length … to select one Finalist for the full Selection Committee to consider for possible election with the new class of enshrinees.