Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold hoisted the Lombardi Trophy right where his whole NFL career had previously turned around at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Darnold led the Seahawks to victory over the New England Patriots by a score of 29–13 on Sunday to win Super Bowl LX in a city where he once showed up as a backup quarterback. The former No. 3 draft pick in 2018 had looked like anything but a Super Bowl champion his first five years in the league, and eventually became a backup quarterback to a former Mr. Irrelevant, Brock Purdy, with the San Francisco 49ers, a major rival of the Seahawks, in 2023.
