It looks like simply yesterday that the Chiefs have been within the Tremendous Bowl. Kansas Metropolis is about to make its third journey to the large recreation previously 4 years. Andy Reid’s groups have develop into regulars within the closing recreation of the NFL season.
Whereas it may not have been a very long time because the Chiefs misplaced to the Buccaneers in Tampa and even since they beat the 49ers in Miami, loads of roster turnover occurs from yr to yr. Stars like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones have been mainstays on the roster, however many different gamers have come and gone within the 4 years that separated the group’s first Tremendous Bowl run and its most up-to-date.
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These Chiefs may look comparable, however they’re lots totally different from those whose seasons resulted in Florida in February. Primarily based on rosters from Professional Soccer Reference, there are 18 gamers from the group that misplaced within the Tremendous Bowl to the Buccaneers and 13 from the group that beat San Francisco.
Which Chiefs could be trying to win their second ring with Kansas Metropolis? This is a have a look at the 13 gamers who have been on the Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl 54-winning squad.
Which Chiefs in Tremendous Bowl 57 received a hoop in Tremendous Bowl 54?
Patrick Mahomes, QB
After all, any listing has to begin with No. 15. Mahomes helped his group bounce again after falling behind 20-10 on the finish of the third quarter, throwing a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns. He completed the sport 26 for 42 for 286 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.
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Mahomes’ first title got here after maybe his worst common season, when he threw 26 touchdowns and had 4,031 passing yards, though he solely had 5 interceptions. He turned it up within the playoffs, passing for 10 touchdowns and 901 yards with simply two picks.
Travis Kelce, TE
For so long as Mahomes has been the quarterback in Kansas Metropolis, Kelce has been one in every of his favourite weapons. That was undoubtedly the case in Tremendous Bowl 54. Kelce caught all six of his targets for 43 yards and a fourth-quarter landing.
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Kelce had put collectively his first two seasons of 80-plus receiving yards and 1,000 receiving yards in 2016 and 2017, however he noticed his manufacturing leap to greater than 97 catches and 1,200 receiving yards in his first two years with Mahomes. That Tremendous Bowl-winning season, he caught 97 passes for 1,229 yards and 5 touchdowns earlier than including 4 extra scores throughout the playoff run.
Blake Bell, TE
The one participant who was a part of the Tremendous Bowl 54 runs, wasn’t part of Tremendous Bowl 55 and was for Tremendous Bowl 57. Bell was in his first yr with the Chiefs and instantly acquired his first style of the playoffs. Within the postseason, he caught three passes for twenty-four yards and a landing, together with a 9-yard seize within the Tremendous Bowl.
Bell went to the Cowboys in 2020 earlier than returning to the Chiefs in 2021. Over the previous two years, he has caught 11 passes for 107 yards and a landing.
Mecole Hardman, WR
Hardman has been the Chiefs’ No. 3 receivers since arriving in Kansas Metropolis, and that was the case in opposition to the 49ers. He rushed as soon as for minus-6 yards and caught one move for two yards in a quiet efficiency.
That 2019 season was Hardman’s first as a Chief after being drafted out of Georgia, and he made an on the spot affect. He caught 26 passes for 538 yards and 6 touchdowns. These TDs remained a profession excessive via his 4 NFL seasons.
Andrew Wylie, G
When Wylie was signed by the Chiefs in 2018, Kansas Metropolis stored him at guard, and he discovered success for a lot of his first two years defending Mahomes. Then he suffered a high-ankle sprain in Week 15 of the 2019 season, which price him the playoffs, together with the Tremendous Bowl.
Wylie, an undrafted free agent by the Colts in 2017, ultimately transitioned from the inside of the road to proper sort out in Tremendous Bowl 55. He has remained there ever since.
Nick Allegretti, G
Allegretti appeared in seven video games for the Chiefs throughout the common season however didn’t seem within the playoffs. He has been a flexible lineman for the Chiefs in 2022, with begins at each guard spots and snaps at left sort out and middle. He has not logged a snap within the playoffs.
Chris Jones, DT
Jones has been a game-wrecker for Kansas Metropolis since coming into the NFL, and that was once more the case throughout the Chiefs’ run to a Tremendous Bowl title. Whereas he did not have a sack within the Tremendous Bowl 54, Jones defended three passes and had a strain in opposition to Jimmy Garoppolo.
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His 2019 common season kicked off a run of now 4 consecutive Professional Bowl alternatives. He completed the yr with 9 sacks, 36 mixed tackles, 20 quarterback hits, 4 defended passes and a fumble restoration.
Derrick Nnadi, DT
Nnadi’s first full yr as an NFL starter culminated in him making a serious affect for the Chiefs within the Tremendous Bowl. He tallied 4 tackles, together with one for loss on the Chiefs’ first defensive play of the sport.
The Chiefs traded up within the 2018 NFL Draft to pick Nnadi within the third spherical. He instantly crammed in at nostril tackles and ultimately turned a starter early in his profession. He has been a mainstay in the midst of the line of defense alongside Jones. He has tallied three sacks and 110 mixed tackles over the previous three seasons.
Khalen Saunders, DT
A 3rd defensive sort out who has been with the group via three Tremendous Bowl runs, Saunders was taken within the third spherical of the 2019 NFL Draft and began 4 video games in 12 appearances throughout his rookie season. He recorded a sort out within the Tremendous Bowl.
Saunders has loved a breakout in 2022, with a career-best 17 pressures within the common and postseason, in line with PFF, to go together with 48 mixed tackles and three.5 sacks.
Frank Clark, EDGE
Clark missed the Seahawks’ run of back-to-back Tremendous Bowl appearances. His first yr within the NFL was 2015, the yr after Seattle misplaced to the Patriots. However he came to visit to Kansas Metropolis simply in time to play the 49ers, and he made his affect felt. He recorded Kansas Metropolis’s solely sack and tallied two QB hits on Garoppolo, along with his sack forcing a turnover on downs with 1:33 left within the recreation.
The Chiefs gave up lots to get Clark: first- and third-round picks and a conditional second-rounder for Clark and a third-round choose within the 2019 NFL Draft, together with a five-year, $105.5 million contract extension. Clark paid off on the deal instantly: he turned in his first Professional Bowl season with 8 sacks, 12 tackles for loss, a fumble restoration, 4 passes defended and an interception.
Juan Thornhill, S
It did not take lengthy for Thornhill to make an affect. The second-round pick of Virginia began all 16 video games as a rookie in 2019 and tallied three picks and 5 passes defended. However he tore his ACL within the closing week of the common season, stopping him from being part of the group’s Tremendous Bowl run.
Thornhill has remained a gradual presence in Kansas Metropolis’s secondary since then. He has began 36 of his 49 video games since his rookie yr, with 5 interceptions, 119 solo tackles, 5 tackles for loss and 15 passes defended.
Harrison Butker, Okay
The Chiefs have loved Butker’s dependable kicking since 2017, and he was his traditional productive self within the Tremendous Bowl. He made all 4 extra-point makes an attempt and booted a 31-yard discipline purpose.
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In 2019, Butker led the NFL with 34 discipline objectives made and 38 discipline objectives tried, and he was 45 for 48 on PATs. Since then, he has been profitable on 86.1 p.c of his field-goal tries and 92.4 p.c of his extra-point kicks.
James Winchester, LS
The punter and holder might need modified through the years, however the lengthy snapper and kicker have been collectively since 2017. Winchester has performed in each Chiefs recreation since 2015, together with the run to the Tremendous Bowl in 2020.
