It happens every so often in the Super Bowl. Hours are spent discussing and analyzing the top-line players. The quarterbacks, the star wide receivers, the standout defenders. But then an under-the-radar player turns in the game of his life, and lives on in football lore.
Take Super Bowl XLIX. Tom Brady. Russell Wilson. The Legion of Boom. In the end an undrafted defensive back from a Division II school makes an interception at the goal line that will stand the test of football time. Malcolm Butler’s name will forever be linked with greatness.
Or Super Bowl XXXVII, which saw the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders. Forget Brad Johnson or Jerry Rice or Rich Gannon or Keyshawn Johnson or any of the other players in that game such as Hall of Famers Warren Sapp or Derrick Brooks. It was Dexter Jackson who took home MVP honors.
Could we see something similar in Super Bowl LV? Could someone other than Brady, or Patrick Mahomes, or Tyreek Hill, or Travis Kelce, or Mike Evans, or any of the other stars be the player to change the course of football history?
Here are the secret superstars of Super Bowl LV.