Quarterback Drew Brees’ record-setting NFL career is on track for a 20th season — and a 15th with the Saints.

The 41-year-old Brees announced his intention to return next season in a social media post Tuesday.

Brees missed five games with a throwing hand injury that required surgery but was still productive last season while leading the Saints to a third straight playoff appearance. Brees’ 74.3% completion rate ranked second in NFL history behind only his 2018 record of 74.4%.

He also passed for 27 TDs while throwing just four picks and was selected to a fourth straight Pro Bowl.

Brees’ decision to return will set in motion negotiations on a new contract.

The Saints have stated an interest in bringing Brees back.

Brees is the NFL’s all-time leader in completions (6,867), yards passing (77,416), and TDs (547).

The Seahawks and three-time Pro Bowl TE Greg Olsen agreed to a one-year, $7 million contract with $5.5 million guaranteed, ESPN reported. Olsen, 34, parted ways with the Panthers after nine seasons. ... President Donald Trump pardoned Edward DeBartolo Jr., the former 49ers owner who pleaded guilty in 1998 for failing to report a felony when he paid $400,000 to former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards in exchange for a riverboat gambling license. DeBartolo, who owned the 49ers when they won five Super Bowls in the 1980s and 1990s and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016, avoided prison, was fined $1 million and was banned a year by the NFL, effectively ending his career.

Colleges: The NCAA will tak a significant step toward allowing all D-I athletes to transfer one time without sitting out a season of competition when it submits a plan to change the waiver process to the D-I Council in April. If adopted, new criteria would go into effect for the 2020-21 academic year.

Soccer: Atletico Madrid held off defending champ Liverpool 1-0 in the first leg of a Champions League round of 16 match. The second leg is March 11. In other first-leg action, Erling Haaland scored in the 69th and 77th minutes to lead Borussia Dortmund over visiting Paris Saint-Germain 2-1. The second leg is March 11.

— News services