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Foles is in Tucson this week to be inducted into the UA Sports Hall of Fame. 

Other members of the 2025 UA Sports Hall of Fame include Kevin Cordes (swimming), Ben Diggins (baseball), Channing Frye (men's basketball), Margo Geer (swimming), Samantha Pickens (diving), Brad Tandy (swimming), 2024 national championship-winning triathlon team, the 2012 200 medley team (swimming) and the 2013 400 medley team (swimming). 

Foles is also the final honorary captain for this season, joining Jonah Savaiinaea, Tyler Loop, David Adams, Marquis Flowers, Rob Gronkowski, Eben Britton and Antoine Cason. 

Arizona head coach Brent Brennan said Foles' return is a "super cool thing and it's really, really special."  

"He's a great guy and has been a great supporter of Arizona football, of our staff," Brennan added. "He's been really great to me in my time here." 

Foles attended an Arizona spring practice months after Brennan was hired last year. 

"We're trying to get him back, but he's got young kids and a busy schedule," Brennan said of Foles. 

The Austin, Texas, native starred at Westlake High School, where he passed for 5,658 yards and 56 touchdowns, breaking former NFL star Drew Brees’ passing records. Foles signed with Michigan State in 2007 and shared a quarterback room with NFL quarterbacks Kirk Cousins and Brian Hoyer. Foles briefly transferred to Arizona State before signing with the Wildcats under head coach Mike Stoops in 2008.

After Tuitama graduated, Foles competed with Matt Scott for the starting role, but lost the battle. Foles was inserted in the second half of Arizona’s nonconference road loss to Iowa and was named the starter heading into the Wildcats’ Pac-10 opener at Oregon State. Foles led the Wildcats to a 37-32 win over the Beavers and remained Arizona’s starting quarterback for three seasons.

Foles led Arizona to an 8-5 record in 2009 and positioned the Wildcats to potentially control their destiny to the Rose Bowl with a matchup against Oregon with ESPN’s “College GameDay” in Tucson, but Arizona lost to the Ducks in double-overtime. UA fell to Nebraska 33-0 in the Holiday Bowl. A back injury to Gronkowski prevented Foles and the tight end from playing together in '09.

The following season, the Wildcats lost to Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl. 

In the three seasons with Foles as the starter, the Wildcats didn’t win a bowl game, but the quarterback finished his career as the program’s all-time passing leader with 10,011 yards and 67 touchdowns. Fifita, who has another year of eligibility, has 8,449 career passing yards and 68 touchdowns. 

Before the 2011 season, Foles attended the Manning Passing Academy, where he was roommates with current ����Ӱ��AV offensive coordinator Seth Doege, who was then the starting quarterback at Texas Tech.

“He was a great person to be around," Doege said in June. "We spent the whole camp together. We were together 24-7. I gravitated towards him like all of his teammates. He’s a great leader, he’s a great dude, and he’s got an infectious personality. Like I said, he was obsessed with football, and I’m obsessed with football, too. We could talk football for hours.

“When football was over, we went and chased some alligators together, too. There’s no surprise that he’s had the success he’s had and he is who he is now. I was fired up to have that experience with him.”

Following an illustrious career at the UA, Foles was a third-round draft choice by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012 and carved out an 11-year career, primarily as a backup. As a rookie under former Eagles head coach Andy Reid, Foles took over as starter after Michael Vick suffered a concussion. In his first start, Foles led the Eagles to a walk-off win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football.

In Foles’ second season under Chip Kelly, he competed with Vick for the starting job but, like his Arizona career, didn’t earn the starting job until midway through the season. Foles passed for 2,891 yards, 27 touchdowns and two interceptions in 2013; he had the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in the NFL.

Foles’ production dipped in 2014, when he passed for 2,183 yards, 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, before he was traded to the St. Louis Rams. Foles was a backup for the Rams and Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons.

Foles entered free agency in 2017 and signed a two-year contract to return to the Eagles for a second stint. During Week 14 of the 2017 season, Eagles starter Carson Wentz suffered a season-ending ACL injury, putting Foles back as Philadelphia’s starter.

Foles led the top-seeded Eagles to their first-ever Super Bowl, taking down the New England Patriots and future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady. In a play known as “Philly Special,” one of the most iconic plays in Super Bowl history, Foles caught a touchdown pass at the goal line.

Foles is the first player to catch and throw a touchdown in Super Bowl history. The interaction between Foles and Eagles head coach Doug Pederson on the sidelines before “Philly Special” was turned into a statue outside Lincoln Financial Field.

Foles is the only former Wildcat to earn Super Bowl MVP honors.

After the 2018 season, Foles signed a four-year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars and was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2020, before ending his career with a two-year stint with the Indianapolis Colts. Foles .

Foles ended his NFL career with 14,227 yards, 82 touchdowns and 47 interceptions. Between his high school, college and NFL careers, Foles threw for 29,953 yards and 205 touchdowns. The 36-year-old Foles made just under $88 million in career earnings.

Foles' final game as a Wildcat at Arizona Stadium was a 352-yard, three-touchdown performance against Louisiana Lafayette.