{"id":735125,"date":"2026-02-07T06:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:14:17","slug":"eric-sauberts-odyssey-makes-his-super-bowl-moment-that-much-sweeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/735125\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Saubert&#8217;s odyssey makes his Super Bowl moment &#8216;that much sweeter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Eric Saubert\u2019s first naive mistake as a pro was buying a house while with his first NFL team.<\/p>\n<p>Little did he know when he was a rookie tight end with the Falcons in 2017, drafted in the fifth round, that he would play for seven more teams after Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth \u2014 and current team \u2014 is the Seattle Seahawks, who play the Patriots in Super Bowl 2026 on Sunday at Levi\u2019s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Super Bowl is obviously always the goal when you\u2019re with any team, but with the journey I\u2019ve been on, I think it makes this moment that much sweeter,\u2019\u2019 the 31-year-old Saubert told The Post. \u201cAt the time when you\u2019re going through the process of going to different teams \u2014 uprooting, learning a new system, making new impressions \u2014 it seems daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Eric Saubert\u2019s first naive mistake as a pro was buying a house while with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623,261,9,3248,505,41484],"class_list":{"0":"post-735125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-super-bowl","19":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027880506545796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}