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Kansas City’s triumph in the Super Bowl makes a winner of ex-Longhorn Alex Okafor

Posted February 2nd, 2020

Danny Davis American-Statesman Staff

@aasdanny

Once again, the NFL season has ended with a Longhorn in the winner’s circle.

Kansas City rallied to a 31-20 win over San Francisco in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday night. Like the previous three Super Bowl winners, Kansas City had a former Texas football player on its roster.

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Alex Okafor, a Pflugerville native who played at Texas from 2009-12, was inactive for the season’s biggest game. Okafor registered 15 tackles and five sacks in his seventh NFL season but he suffered a season-ending pectoral injury against Denver in mid-December. Still, Okafor joins a club of 27 former Longhorns who have won 32 Super Bowls:

• DL John Elliot (Super Bowl III)
• DB Jim Hudson (Super Bowl III)
• TE Pete Lammons (Super Bowl III)
• WR George Sauer (Super Bowl III)
• DB Ricky Churchman (Super Bowl XVI)
• DL Bill Heathcock (Super Bowl XX)
• DL Steve McMichael (Super Bowl XX)
• K Raul Allegre (Super Bowl XXI)
• TE Terry Orr (Super Bowl XXII; Super Bowl XXVI)
• OL Terry Tausch (Super XXIV)
• OL Dan Neil (Super Bowl XXII; Super Bowl XXIII)
• DB Taje Allen (Super Bowl XXXIV)
• TE Derek Lewis (Super Bowl XXXIV)
• RB Priest Holmes (Super Bowl XXXV)
• DL Casey Hampton (Super Bowl XL; Super Bowl XLIII)
• DB Aaron Ross (Super Bowl XLII; Super Bowl XLVI)
• OL Tony Hills (Super Bowl XLIII)
• WR Limas Sweed (Super Bowl XLIII)
• TE David Thomas (Super Bowl XLIV)
• TE Jermichael Finley (Super Bowl XLV)
• K Justin Tucker (Super Bowl XLVII)
• DB Chykie Brown (Super Bowl XLVII)
• DB Earl Thomas (Super Bowl XLVIII)
• DL Malcom Brown (Super Bowl LI; Super Bowl LIII)
• LB Jordan Hicks (Super Bowl LII)
• WR Marcus Johnson (Super Bowl LII)
• DL Alex Okafor (Super Bowl LIV)

Texas would have claimed a Super Bowl champion regardless of the outcome in Miami. Former UT receiver Marquise Goodwin, who was also injured, is a 49er. San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan was also looking to join Tom Landry as the only ex-Texas players to coach a Super Bowl winner.

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