After a string of five Super Bowls featuring either Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow and the Los Angeles Rams’ Matthew Stafford made sure that trend didn’t continue.
Two weeks from now, the Bengals will face the Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in the Super Bowl on Feb. 13. It will be only the second time that two quarterbacks who were No. 1 draft picks will face off in the championship game (Peyton Manning and Cam Newton were the first pair in 2016).
Both quarterbacks survived close calls Sunday to get there. Burrow led the Bengals to a second-half comeback against the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game to advance to his first Super Bowl, the third in Cincinnati’s franchise history. A few hours later, the Rams advanced to their second Super Bowl since the 2018 season after getting past the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game.