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While both starts were losses, at the end of the season, when the Redskins had qualified for the playoffs, Williams, with his 94.0 passer rating, was chosen as the starter. He led the team to Super Bowl XXII in which they routed the Denver Broncos, becoming the first black quarterback to both play in and win a Super Bowl. [17] [18] [19]
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are the only starting quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls for two NFL teams, while Craig Morton and Kurt Warner are the only other quarterbacks to have started for a second team. Jim McMahon won a second Super Bowl ring having been a backup on the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers team that won Super Bowl XXXI.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was the seventh Black quarterback to start a Super Bowl. [30] The combined Super Bowl records of Black quarterbacks is 5–7. Williams, Mahomes and Hurts are to date the only players to win the Super Bowl MVP award. [31]
The 2023 honor came on the heels of a Super Bowl win against the Philadelphia Eagles, where he also won Super Bowl MVP. ... making history as the first Black quarterback to face off in the Super ...
Thirty-five years ago Tuesday, Doug Williams made history. He became the first Black quarterback to start a Super Bowl, leading Washington to a 42-10 win over Denver that included a stunning 35 ...
Doug Williams, the first Black quarterback to start a Super Bowl, talked to TODAY.com about the 2023 Super Bowl having two Black starting quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts.
He was named Super Bowl MVP for his performance, becoming the third Black quarterback to earn the honor and the fourth black starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl. [ 2 ] [ 118 ] Closing out the 2024 season, Hurts successfully led Philadelphia to the playoffs in all of his first four seasons as the primary starter, receiving two Pro Bowl ...
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.