Editor’s note: Mike Sando is on the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee and has served since 2010.The Pro Football Hall of Fame revealed an overhauled selection process Friday, including changes to policies dating back decades, seven months after Bill Belichick’s omission from the 2026 class created controversy and confusion.The changes, which the Hall described in a news release as the culmination of a review lasting 2 1/2 years, include:• Reducing the selection committee from 50 to 25 members, plus three nonvoting participants, with voting status determined annually.• Eliminating the senior category for players retired at least 25 years.• Enshrining between three and seven candidates each year from a 15-person pool: 13 players, one coach and one contributor.• Scrapping the system whereby one selector from each NFL market takes the lead in presenting the case for candidates associated with that market. Instead, one person who is not on the committee will present all candidates.The separate senior category has been used since it was established in 1972. The selection committee has included at least one representative for each team/market since the Hall’s inception in 1963, with an increasing number of at-large selectors more recently. The new committee will be the smallest since 1976, when the league expanded to 28 teams.The Hall said it hoped the new rules would curtail “unintended biases” in three areas: disparate presentation skills among selectors; team markets from which selectors hail; and the pressure to enshrine candidates before they transitioned from modern-era (retired between five and 25 years) to senior status.