{"id":739541,"date":"2026-02-09T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/739541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:41:14","slug":"three-former-giants-players-are-now-super-bowl-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/739541\/","title":{"rendered":"Three former Giants players are now Super Bowl champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl 60 to win the franchise&#8217;s second Super Bowl. Their first came 12 years ago in Super Bowl 48.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, that Super Bowl was played at MetLife Stadium, where three Seahawks players spent parts of their careers playing.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Williams, Julian Love, and Drew Lock all spent portions of their career as New York Giants. Williams from 2019-2023, Love from 2020-2023, and Lock in 2024. They all won their first Super Bowl with the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>SEE MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/winter-fruit-sumo-oranges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hey NJ, this fruit is currently in season and you need to try it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Eakin Howard\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>They experienced what a lot of former Giants players have learned: leave the Giants and you can find what good football looks like. You don&#8217;t have to go back far to find another example of a former Giant reaching and winning the Super Bowl. It was last year that Saquon Barkley traveled down the Turnpike to sign with the Philadelphia Eagles and won Super Bowl 59.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can add three more ex-Giants to that list.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"theframe\" data-image=\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/site\/385\/files\/2025\/03\/attachment-nextdoor-nj1015.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/new-jersey-1015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attachment-nextdoor-nj1015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams and Love were key contributors to the win, while Lock served as the backup quarterback to Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n<p>Darnold himself once played his games in MetLife Stadium when he was a member of the New York Jets. Williams did as well.<\/p>\n<p>New York football fans have been mired in terrible football for well over a decade now, and seeing their former players find glory elsewhere is a shining example of just how inept their organizations have become.<\/p>\n<p>Players who once caught a lot of flack for the lack of team success in New York have gracefully moved on and found glory elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>How much your school district gets under Murphy&#8217;s proposed 2024 budget<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Phil Murphy&#8217;s porposed 2024 budget includes $1 billion in new spending for school funding including pre-K funding, pension and benefits, and an additional $832 million in K-12 aid, which is listed below by county and district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Sergio Bichao\/New Jersey 101.5<\/p>\n<p>NFL pros from New Jersey 2023<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 60 active pros with NJ roots, including four NFL quarterbacks born in the Garden State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/nfl-players-from-nj-eagles-chiefs-49ers-bengals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Erin Vogt, Joe Votruba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5&#8217;s Kyle Clark. Any opinions expressed are his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/seahawks-super-bowl-victory\/mailto:trenton.dme@townsquaremedia.com?subject=Feedback or correction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to contact an editor about feedback or a correction for this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl 60 to win the franchise&#8217;s second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,60658,1917,56,2321,2469,6,4631,4632],"class_list":{"0":"post-739541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-judi-ej","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-talking-about","17":"tag-ultimate-new-jersey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116039076734479536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739541","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=739541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}