Canton, OH -- (Sports Network) - Bob Hayes and Claude Humphrey have been selected as the senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2009.

Hayes and Humphrey will join 15 still-to-be-named modern-era candidates on the list of finalists from which the Class of 2009 will be selected. The Hall of Fame selection meeting will be held on January 31, 2009, the day before Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida.

To be elected, Hayes and Humphrey must each receive the same 80 percent voting support that is required of all finalists. The Hall's Board of Selectors will elect between four and seven new members during next January's meeting.

Hayes and Humphrey were nominated as finalists for the Hall in years past.

A seniors committee candidate in 2004, Hayes was a wide receiver with the Dallas Cowboys from 1965-74 and San Francisco 49ers in 1975. A track star who earned the label as "World's Fastest Human" for his performances during the 1964 Summer Olympics, Hayes led the NFL the following year with 12 touchdown catches and an average of 21.8 yards per catch.

Hayes, who played in two Super Bowls with the Cowboys, compiled 371 career receptions for 7,414 yards and 71 touchdowns during his career. He also returned 104 punts for 1,158 yards and three scores.

Humphrey, a modern-era finalist in 2003, 2005 and 2006, was the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1968 with Atlanta after the Falcons made him the third overall pick of the draft. He remained with the Falcons through the 1978 season, then spent three years with Philadelphia and was unofficially credited with 122 sacks. Sacks did not become an official statistic until 1982.

A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Humphrey led the Eagles with 14 1/2 sacks in 1980 and helped Philadelphia to its first Super Bowl that season.

The 2009 Class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame will be inducted on August 8 in Canton, Ohio.