The Chargers tight end delivered a message of thanks Saturday by thanking teammates, coaches and family who helped him get to ...

Legendary Chargers tight end and 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinee Antonio Gates sits down with former teammates ...

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An emotional Antonio Gates shed tears as he was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Detroit native and former ...

Antonio Gates thought his path to a Hall of Fame career would have been in basketball. Instead, he became one of the best tight ends in NFL history.

Gates was undersized to be considered an NBA power forward, at 6-foot-4, 255 pounds, but had the size to be an NFL tight end. He also had a football background, though not in college.

Antonio Gates holds up a customized Chargers jacket as he is inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame during a halftime ceremony at SoFi Stadium on Dec. 10, 2023.

Kent State's Antonio Gates, center, secures a second-half rebound against Alabama's Erwin Dudley in an NCAA Tournament South Regional second-round game March 16, 2002, in Greenville, S.C. Kent's ...

Marty Schottenheimer was amazed by what Antonio Gates did from the moment he jumped from Kent State's basketball team into ...

Mike McCoy, who was Gates’ head coach from 2013-16, said, "Rivers to Gates is one of the best tandems in NFL history.” Brees was the QB when Gates made an unforgettable play at Cleveland in 2004.

Gates’ lack of playoff success — the Chargers’ record was 5-7 in his postseason games — may help explain why he didn’t make the Hall of Fame in 2024, the first year he was eligible.