Sydney Seau will speak after all — sort of.

Bowing to intense pressure from fans and the media, David Baker, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, said that the daughter of Junior Seau, one of the NFL’s greatest linebackers, would be allowed to speak in honor of her father when he is inducted posthumously into the Hall on Saturday.

Baker told Fox Sports that Seau will be interviewed on stage when her father’s bronze bust is unveiled. Seau’s three sons will also be on stage.

However, the Hall of Fame will maintain its 5-year-old policy of not letting others give full speeches for deceased inductees. Instead, a longer-than-usual video with highlights of the player’s career and comments from his family and friends will be shown before his bronze bust is unveiled at the ceremony in Canton, Ohio.

The Seau family could not be immediately reached for comment.

The Hall of Fame’s policy was established to cut down on overlapping commentary and to speed up a lengthy ceremony. In 2011, when the late Los Angeles Rams linebacker Les Richter was inducted, only a video featuring his son was shown.

But after The New York Times reported on July 24 that the Seau family was told that Sydney would not be able to speak after having been told otherwise, the Hall of Fame was widely criticized by fans and members of the news media.

Before his death in 2012, Seau had specified that his daughter, Sydney, should speak on his behalf if he made it into the Hall. In the months after Seau was chosen to be inducted, Sydney had been preparing to make a speech in Canton. She also taped an interview at NFL Network, which was preparing the video to be shown at the ceremony.

Only on July 9 did the Hall inform Sydney Seau that she would not be giving a speech. Officials at the Hall cited the policy regarding deceased inductees.

Seau’s death has been a cause of concern for the league. In 2012, less than three years after his 20-year career came to an end, Seau shot himself in the chest. An autopsy determined that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head.

After years of denying a connection between head hits and brain disease, the league has spent tens of millions of dollars on concussion-related research and even more money to settle a class-action suit brought by retired players. Separately, Seau’s family has sued the league for wrongful death and is seeking money equal to what Seau would have earned.

Joe Horrigan, who is responsible for putting on the ceremony, said the circumstances of Seau’s death and the lawsuit had nothing to do with the decision to only show a video at his induction.