Who’s deeper: Chiefs or Eagles? Creating an ultimate Super Bowl lineup-ZoomTech News

The NFL’s largest stars will take middle stage on Sunday when the Kanas Metropolis Chiefs battle the Philadelphia Eagles in Tremendous Bowl LIX.

Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs want to full the NFL’s first three-peat, whereas Jalen Hurts and the Eagles want to avenge their loss to Kansas Metropolis in Tremendous Bowl LVII.

Mahomes and Hurts are two of probably the most completed quarterbacks within the NFL, however which signal-caller would you need below middle if you happen to had to decide on only one? 

On the defensive facet of the ball, these are the 2 greatest items within the sport, however which group has the benefit?

To reply these questions, I mixed each group’s projected starters to create an final Tremendous Bowl beginning 11 on each offense and protection.

In selecting gamers to be listed right here, I took liberties. No matter how they performed in highschool, faculty or as execs, I wished the absolute best group I might muster. I imagined being the final supervisor for Tremendous Bowl LIX vs. the Monstars. And I’ve to say, I like our probabilities towards the aliens as a result of this group is loaded.

Offense

QB: Patrick Mahomes (Chiefs)

It is easy to overlook the numbers Hurts put up in faculty. In a single season at Oklahoma, he had 3,851 passing yards, 1,298 speeding yards and 53 whole touchdowns. By comparability, Heisman winner Jayden Daniels, who is taken into account by many to be among the finest NFL rookie quarterbacks ever, accounted for 3,812 passing yards, 1,134 speeding yards and 50 whole touchdowns at LSU.

Hurts squats the truck out entrance, can toss it 60 yards and is the characteristic again in probably the most computerized play from scrimmage in soccer historical past. He has days when he is extra lethal than Agent Smith with a dial tone.

However, with that mentioned, I’m selecting the man who threw for 700 yards towards Oklahoma and has made “dad bods” the height of athletic efficiency: Patrick Mahomes.

RB: Saquon Barkley (Eagles)

Barkley has been unstoppable. He accounted for a mean of 1,900 yards from scrimmage and 21 touchdowns in his final two years at Penn State.

Within the NFL, Barkley notched 2,000 yards from scrimmage as a rookie and as a seventh-year vet. 

Eric Dickerson must ship a Trans Am to Nick Sirianni. With 2,005 speeding yards in 16 video games, Barkley was set to interrupt Dickerson’s 40-year-old report, however Sirianni held Barkley out of the group’s last regular-season recreation.

Since 2015, Barkley has rushed for a minimum of 1,000 yards and picked up a minimum of 1,200 yards from scrimmage in all however two seasons, together with his time in faculty and the NFL. And he performed simply two video games in 2020.

WRs: DeVonta Smith (Eagles), A.J. Brown (Eagles), Hollywood Brown (Chiefs), DeAndre Hopkins (Chiefs)

Smith, the Slim Reaper, took a scythe to varsity soccer in 2020. That season, we watched him flip into Jason and Alabama into the Argonauts. He had 117 catches, 1,856 yards, and 23 touchdowns whereas main the Crimson Tide to a nationwide championship. 

Smith left faculty soccer with two nationwide titles, the Heisman and the tears of opponents who discovered in real-time they’re mortal males. And he’s not like them.

TE: Travis Kelce (Chiefs)

The late bloomer personified. Kelce’s greatest provide popping out of highschool was Cincinattti, and he took it. He performed in 35 collegiate video games, hauled in simply 59 catches, and notched only one season of 700 receiving yards or extra.

Quick-forward 13 years, and Kelce is making an attempt to win his fourth Tremendous Bowl. He has made seven All-Professional groups, 10 Professional Bowls and solidified himself as the best postseason participant at his place — ever.

OL: Creed Humphrey (Chiefs), Landon Dickerson (Eagles), Lane Johnson (Eagles), Joe Thuney (Chiefs), Jordan Mailata (Eagles)

This group has made greater than 500 mixed begins, have 15 mixed Professional Bowls and have gained seven mixed Tremendous Bowls.

Humphrey, Dickerson and Thuney have been All-People in faculty, whereas Johnson is a five-time first- or second-team All-Professional.

Protection

DL: Chris Jones (Chiefs), Jordan Davis (Eagles), Jalen Carter (Eagles), Nolan Smith (Eagles)

I wrote that Davis ought to’ve been a Heisman finalist all the best way again in October 2021. And I look smarter by the day.

The Eagles are a personified recruiting brochure for Kirby Sensible’s Georgia program.

DB: Trent McDuffie (Chiefs), Cooper DeJean (Eagles), Justin Reid (Chiefs), Quinyon Mitchell (Eagles)

Line up DeJean throughout from Kansas Metropolis’s greatest wideout and go away him on the island. Like Chuck Noland in “Castaway,” he’ll discover a method.

LB: Nakobe Dean (Eagles), Jeremiah Trotter Jr. (Eagles), Leo Chenal (Chiefs)

Earlier than his damage, Dean loved the perfect common season of his skilled profession with 128 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, a compelled fumble and a decide. 

Dean gained the Butkus Award in highschool. Then he gained it once more at Georgia, the place he majored in mechanical engineering, graduated cum laude, captained the Bulldogs and led them to their first nationwide title in 40 years. 

The person left Horn Lake, Mississippi, and mentioned, “watch me!”

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RJ Younger is a nationwide faculty soccer author and analyst for FOX Sports activities and the host of the podcast “The Number One College Football Show.” Comply with him on Twitter at @RJ_Young and subscribe to “The RJ Young Show” on YouTube.

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