Alan Faneca overcame bouts with epilepsy to become one of the premier offensive linemen in the NFL.

With 19 live speeches and nine video tributes this year's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction talks will be limited to six minutes apiece.

Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson, Jared Allen and Calvin Johnson are first-year eligible players to make the list of 25 semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fames class of 2021. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)TAMPA, Fla. – The Latest on the 2021 Pro Football Hall of Fame class announced Saturday during the NFL Honors TV show (All times EST):___10:49 p.m.Peyton Manning is heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, an all-but-preordained honor for a quarterback who helped redefine offense in the 21st century. Manning spent his first 14 years in Indianapolis, where he won his first Super Bowl. ___10:08 p.m.Alan Faneca, the sturdy guard who spent years opening holes open for Jerome Bettis and protecting Ben Roethlisberger, is going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ___9:33 p.m.Calvin Johnson, the receiver better known as “Megatron,” has been named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson are among 14 first-year eligible candidates for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The roster of nominees consists of 65 offensive players, 49 defensive players and 16 special teams players. A maximum of five modern-era players will be chosen when the selection committee meets the Saturday before the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida. Eighteen finalists will be presented to the full 48-member panel: the 15 modern-era finalists, and the recently nominated Drew Pearson (senior); Bill Nunn (contributor); and Tom Flores (coach). Enshrinement at the hall in Canton, Ohio, will take place next August, when members of the 2020 class and a special centennial class also will enter the football shrine.

(CNN) -- Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson has been waiting for decades for a call from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Pearson, a Super Bowl champion and member of the NFL's 1970s all-decade team, thought this would be his year. He appeared in the Super Bowl three times, winning Super Bowl XII in 1978. I'm sorry how they are doing you man..."Tony Dorsett, the legendary Cowboys running back and Hall of Famer, was Pearson's teammate on the Cowboys. That group of five will be elected on February 1, the day before Super Bowl LIV, in Miami.