BROOK PARK, Ohio — The National High School Football Hall of Fame's class of 2026 is a star-studded one, Jim Kelly, Tony Dorsett, Brian Bosworth and Browns greats Lou Groza, Ozzie Newsome and Greg Pruitt among them.

"It's great to be recognized, you know, when you get to be my age, you think that you'd been forgotten," Pruitt said, who was on hand in Brook Park for the announcement.

Pruitt played his high school ball in Texas before going on to college at Oklahoma.

"The first time I played football, I never imagined that one day I would be standing here in the Hall of Fame," he said. "But I say to kids who come behind me, 'don't let nobody tell you how good you can be, find out for yourself,' and that's what I did."

The class also includes Lee Tressel, father of Ohio Lt. Governor and f

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