Football fans across the world tuned into Super Bowl 60 on Sunday night, with the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks battling in a rematch from 11 years ago.
Both teams locked into a defensive battle through the first three quarters, with Seattle holding a 12-0 lead until 30 combined points in the fourth. A pair of former UNC football stars, Drake Maye and Mack Hollins, connected for New England’s first score early in the fourth quarter.
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While Maye and Hollins lost in their Super Bowl debuts, a 29-13 defeat, another former Tar Heel won his first Super Bowl trip.
Chazz Surratt, a quarterback-turned-linebacker who played at North Carolina from 2017-2020, was part of Seattle’s first Super Bowl-winning squad since 2013.
Through Surratt didn’t record a statistic, the Seahawks activated him from injured reserve days ahead of the Big Game. Surratt recorded 11 tackles in 11 regular season games for Seattle, playing primarily on special teams.
Surratt played quarterback for Larry Fedora in 2017, starting seven of the nine games he appeared in, compiling 1,341 passing yards and eight touchdowns. Surratt added 210 rushing yards and five more scored on the ground, then redshirted 2018.
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When Surratt played again in 2019, he turned into a First Team All-ACC selection, finishing as runner up for ACC Defensive Player of the Year. In UNC’s COVID-shortened 2020 campaign, Surratt finished as a Bronco Nagurski Trophy (best linebacker in football) semifinalist.
Surratt began his NFL career with the New York Jets, which suffers from organizational-wide dysfunction to this day. Now with a winning team, Surratt is a Super Bowl Champion four years into his professional football career.
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