Tag: Super Bowl LVI

2022 Jaguars free agency: Jaguars expected to sign Jacksonville native Darious Williams

After leading the Rams in tackles in Super Bowl LVI and earning a championship ring, Darious Williams is coming back home to Jacksonville.

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The Jacksonville Jaguars didn’t make any new additions on Tuesday, but got back to spending their available cap space on Day 3 of free agency. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, they are expected to sign Jacksonville native and Super Bowl champion Darious Williams, who will be an addition to their cornerbacks group.

The deal is a three-year one worth a max of $39 million with $18 million being guaranteed.

Williams, who turned 29 yesterday, entered the league as an undrafted free agent for the Baltimore Ravens in 2018, but was waived in October of that year. He was quickly picked up off waivers a few days later by the Los Angeles Rams and has been there until this point.

Since joining the Rams, Williams has tallied 23 starts (13 of which occurred last year) and played in 43 games. He saw a majority of his snaps out wide last season (748), but some believe he could be the Jags’ starting nickelback while Shaquill Griffin and Tyson Campbell remain the starters on the outside.

Regardless of where he plays, though, Williams adds a lot of winning experience to the locker-room and could bring a great deal of leadership into the mix, too. He’ll be coming off a Super Bowl win in January where he led the Rams in tackles in the process with eight.

Williams was able to accumulate 71 combined tackles last season. As for his career stats, he will enter his Jags tenure with 130 combined tackles, 27 pass breakups, and six interceptions.

Williams attended Creekside High school in St. Johns, Fla. after transferring from Bartram Trail, which is also in the same area. Afterward he attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He briefly attended Florida State Community College of Jacksonville, too, until UAB’s football program returned after it was temporarily dropped after their 2014 season.

Former Tiger says it’s ‘very surreal’ to be a Super Bowl champ

When the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, in Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, Calif. on Feb. 13, former Clemson and currents Rams offensive lineman Tremayne Anchrum Jr. earned his first Super Bowl championship. Anchrum was a …

When the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, in Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, Calif. on Feb. 13, former Clemson and currents Rams offensive lineman Tremayne Anchrum Jr. earned his first Super Bowl championship.

Anchrum was a two-time national champion at Clemson and joined Dan Benish, K.D. Dunn, Andy Headen, Terry Kinard, Dorian O’Daniel and William Perry among Clemson players to earn both a national championship ring and a Super Bowl ring.

Anchrum was a recent guest on The Players Club Podcast, hosted by former Clemson running back Darien Rencher, and talked about how it feels to be a Super Bowl champ.

“Honestly, it hasn’t set in yet. It’s very surreal,” Anchrum said. “It’s like a mountain of work just kind of coming to a climax, and you’re like wow, that really happened. Kind of like when we won the natty – it just felt like you’re the last people playing, the last two standing, and then you’re the last one standing, it’s like man, this doesn’t feel real. But it was a group effort and everyone from the staff, faculty, everybody, the players, you could just feel like hey, we emptied the tank and we’ve done everything we needed to do.”

Anchrum played in 55 career games with 37 career starts at Clemson from 2016-19, helping Clemson to three national championship berths and two national titles. He started each of his final 30 games at Clemson over his final two seasons, helping guide the Tigers to a 29-1 record in those games. He was a two-time All-ACC honoree and finished his career as one of only 23 players in Clemson history to play at least 2,500 career snaps from scrimmage.

You can watch Anchrum’s full interview with Rencher on The Players Club Podcast below:

–Clemson Athletic Communications contributed to this story

–Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images 

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Aaron Donald says Joe Burrow’s comments woke him up during Super Bowl LVI

Some details on what was said on the field during the Super Bowl.

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Let Los Angeles Rams star Aaron Donald tell it, comments from Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow were what lit a fire under him during Super Bowl LVI.

In a sitdown with Peter King of NBC Sports, Donald said the sideline scuffle roughly one minute into the second half featured some on-field chatter. The fact Burrow told Donald a shove that sent him out of bounds was a clean play apparently had a big impact on the defensive tackle:

“Actually, Burrow was the one, he looked at me, like, ‘Hey Aaron, that was a clean play.’ The quarterback told me that! I feel everybody start pushing me, hitting me. I almost lost it. The refs were like, Aaron, get out of here. They [the Bengals] already got me mad. Now they want to push on me, say all these words to me.

“You just woke me up. You just woke me up!”

In other words, good-guy Burrow being a fierce competitor woke the best defensive player in the NFL up a bit after a quiet first half. It’s only natural for Burrow’s teammates to take exception to a hit on him near the sideline late in a play (Donald said Hakeem Adeniji was talking a little trash too), but guys like Burrow and Donald will use whatever little motivation they can find to turn it up a notch.

That drive came after an interception. Before that, the Bengals had scored on the 75-yard touchdown to Tee Higgins to start the second half. Donald getting a sack later made the Bengals settle for a field goal.

This is more a fun note from the Super Bowl than anything else, but it’s somehow a good mark on Burrow’s character, even if a future Hall of Famer used it as motivation to kick into high gear.

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Mythbusting Bengals narratives after Super Bowl trip

Shooting down some out-of-date Bengals narratives that keep making the rounds.

Despite a trip to the Super Bowl during what initially looked like a rebuilding year, it’s not uncommon to see some old (and new, with twists) narratives when the Cincinnati Bengals come up in conversations.

Some of these are worthy of a greatest hits playlist. Others are outright new and, at least in some fashion, not totally correct.

Granted, the Bengals catapulting to a Super Bowl after six wins over the prior two seasons is uncharted waters for everyone — fans, the league itself, even the organization.

That in mind, let’s mythbust some of the most common narratives in a way that’s helpful for all so that the discourse around the team can evolve right alongside its ability to contend.

Los fans de la NFL se burlaron de la poca asistencia en el desfile del Super Bowl de los Rams

Habría que preguntarnos cómo estaría Cincinnati hoy si los Bengals hubieran ganado el Super Bowl 56 el pasado domingo. Toda la ciudad sería un mar de colores anaranjado y negro. Por el otro lado, en Los Angeles la escena fue completamente diferente. …

Habría que preguntarnos cómo estaría Cincinnati hoy si los Bengals hubieran ganado el Super Bowl 56 el pasado domingo. Toda la ciudad sería un mar de colores anaranjado y negro.

Por el otro lado, en Los Angeles la escena fue completamente diferente.

El miércoles, los Rams tuvieron su desfile del Super Bowl para celebrar la victoria 23-20 en el SoFi Stadium, y mientras que era obvio que el equipo merecía festejar, nadie esperaba que el desfile sería un evento masivo con millones de personas en asistencia. Todo el tiempo que pasaron en St. Louis no ayudó a que la franquicia formara una base de fans apasionados en Los Angeles y, desde su regreso, se podría decir que el interés de los fans ha sido moderado en el mejor de los casos.

Así que, como era de esperarse, los fans de la NFL hicieron muchas bromas sobre la poca asistencia a lo largo de la ruta del desfile de los Rams.

Así reaccionó Twitter:

Traducción tuit 1: Creo que en el desfile de los Rams hay más policías que fans.
Traducción tuit 2: ¡Asistieron DECENAS de personas!

 

Traducción: ¡Literalmente el desfile de los Rams!

 

Traducción: En este desfile hay más músculos abdominales de Aaron Donald que fans de los Rams.

 

Traducción: Desfile de las Eagles.
Desfile de los Chiefs.
Desfile de los Buccaneers.
Desfile de los Rams.

 

Traducción: Desfile de los Lakers              Desfile de los Rams

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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Watch: Footage of Joe Burrow waving off trainers after Super Bowl injury

Burrow wasn’t going to let them take him out of the Super Bowl.

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One of the scariest moments of Super Bowl LVI was in the third quarter when Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow got rolled up and grabbed his knee, with cameras later catching a shot of him screaming on the field.

Everyone held their breath hoping he would be ok. Fortunately, we found out he was able to get off the field, sit on the bench, walk around and even told backup QB Brandon Allen that he was ok.

After the game, he said there was simply no way he was staying out of the game.

Now, thanks to the work of NFL Films, we see Burrow even waving off trainers after that injury.

It’s a very quick video, but it’s more than enough to tell you how determined Burrow was not to leave this game. He wanted so bad to stay in the game. That’s just how Burrow is. We found out after the game that it was a sprained MCL that does not require surgery.

Burrow will be back. And it’s the competitive nature like this that will continue to fuel him.

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9 fotos de los Rams durante la celebración del desfile del Super Bowl en Los Angeles

OK, el desfile para celebrar la victoria en el Super Bowl no fue en lanchas. Pero aún así, hubo muchas cosas que ver: vimos a Aaron Donald celebrando sin camisa, a Les Snead usando un meme en su playera, una ruta para el desfile que no tuvo mucha …

OK, el desfile para celebrar la victoria en el Super Bowl no fue en lanchas.

Pero aún así, hubo muchas cosas que ver: vimos a Aaron Donald celebrando sin camisa, a Les Snead usando un meme en su playera, una ruta para el desfile que no tuvo mucha gente…  y el letrero de Hollywood que no quedó del todo transformado en “RAMS HOUSE”.

Pero los jugadores y el personal de los Rams pasaron un momento inolvidable, que al final del día era lo importante, ¿cierto? ¡Son campeones! A ellos probablemente no les importen nuestras bromas ni la falta de fans ni la transformación trunca del letrero.

Así que tomémonos el tiempo de ver algunas fotos de su desfile esta tarde del miércoles.

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. El ofensivo de Los Angeles Rams Andrew Whitworth levanta el trofeo Vince Lombardi del Super Bowl durante el desfile de la victoria del equipo, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. El receptor abierto de Los Angeles Rams Cooper Kupp saluda desde el autobús durante el desfile de la victoria del equipo, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. Los autobuses que llevaban a los jugadores y entrenadores de Los Angeles Rams pasan junto a los fans durante el desfile de la victoria del equipo, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

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Los Angeles, California, 16 de febrero. Cooper Kupp, #10 de Los Angeles Rams, celebra con el trofeo Vince Lombardi durante el desfile de la victoria del Super Bowl LVI. (Foto tomada por Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. El receptor de Los Angeles Rams Cooper Kupp alza el trofeo Vince Lombardi del Super Bowl durante el desfile de la victoria del equipo, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. Odell Beckham Jr., #3 de Los Angeles Rams, celebra durante el desfile de la victoria del Super Bowl LVI. (Foto tomada por Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. Aaron Donald, #99 de Los Angeles Rams, (izquierda) festeja con champaña durante el desfile de la victoria del Super Bowl LVI. (Foto tomada por Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. El defensivo de Los Angeles Rams Aaron Donald, al centro, alza el trofeo Vince Lombardi del Super Bowl mientras festeja con sus compañeros de equipo durante la celebración y el desfile de la victoria del equipo, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Los Angeles, miércoles 16 de febrero de 2022. Fuegos artificiales en Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum durante la celebración de la victoria de Los Angeles Rams, tras su victoria en el partido del Super Bowl 56 de la NFL el domingo contra los Cincinnati Bengals. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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Joe Burrow’s going viral for his funny Super Bowl chats with Rams defenders

“What’s up Aaron?”

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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow really introduced himself to the NFL this year while becoming the Comeback Player of the Year and helping lift his team to the Super Bowl.

But he made sure to introduce himself to the Rams’ biggest defenders during the big game, too.

NFL Films caught Burrow introducing himself to various members of the Rams defense, including Von Miller, Aaron Donald and Eric Weddle.

Now, Rams defenders obviously knew who Burrow was. But they hadn’t technically met him. And those that know Burrow behind the scenes will just know…this is just Burrow being himself.

It’s the same reason Burrow was constantly getting praise from opponents during mic’d up sessions this season. It’s why his response about LA weather went viral and why he went out of his way to wear a friend’s jacket to help his business.

The clip:

And what one of the players in the clip had to say about Burrow after the game:

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Report: Adrian Peterson won’t face felony domestic violence charge

TMZ is reporting that long-time running back Adrian Peterson will not face a felony charge following his domestic violence arrest in LA.

Football fans around the world were greeted with some unfortunate news Sunday morning before the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals faced off in Super Bowl LVI.

Long-time NFL running back and former Seattle Seahawk, Adrian Peterson, was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence following an altercation with his wife that day as the plane began to depart Los Angeles International Airport, bound for Houston, Texas.

Most assumed a felony charge would be filed promptly after the incident, although a recent report from TMZ news suggests otherwise.

“A rep from the L.A. DA’s office tells TMZ Sports they’ve elected not to charge the 36-year-old running back,” the exclusive article states. “But, Peterson isn’t totally in the clear just yet. The case will now be sent to the Los Angeles City Attorney … who could opt to bring misdemeanor domestic violence charges against AD (Peterson).”Peterson appeared in one game for Seattle last season after he was signed to the practice squad in December. He is now a free agent.

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Super Bowl LVI ratings suggest the underdog Bengals are a big hit

Coming soon to more primetime games near you…

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The Cincinnati Bengals are a hit.

That sort of idea didn’t need ratings numbers from Super Bowl LVI as proof, not with the viral sensation guys like Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and C.J. Uzomah have become in recent weeks.

But those Super Bowl ratings sure don’t hurt, either.

Days after the big game, the NFL announced the Super Bowl was watched by 112.3 million viewers, a dramatic leap and the biggest number in recent years.

And the biggest local market rating of all? First place belonged to Cincinnati. The Los Angeles local market didn’t make the top 10.

Burrow and Co. haven’t just revived a longstanding football city — they’ve become a national commodity and continuously proven worthy of a handful of primetime appearances each season.

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