{"id":463858,"date":"2026-02-09T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:28:16","slug":"patriots-will-campbell-played-the-worst-game-of-the-nfl-season-in-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463858\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots&#8217; Will Campbell played the worst game of the NFL season in the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Campbell was involved in a lot of highlights during the Super Bowl on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/seattle-seahawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> highlights, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> lowlights.<\/p>\n<p>The left tackle played one of the worst games of the entire NFL season on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over again, the Seahawks ran around Campbell and even right through him to get to Drake Maye.<\/p>\n<p>That included on a bull rush that led to a fumble, and legitimately double-digit other times when Maye got into trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealJackAndrade\/status\/2020705028789743679\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Jack Andrade of NFL Research<\/a>, Campbell allowed 14 pressures during the game. That&#8217;s the most allowed by any player in a game\u00a0the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/news\/chiefs-plan-travis-kelce-retirement-decision-revealed-nfl-insider\/f219fe2995427b2d9987dcf2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The latest on Travis Kelce&#8217;s retirement timeline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Campbell declined to talk to reporters after the game, too, which isn&#8217;t the end of the world but does show he was not feeling good about how things had gone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">While most Patriots players took questions from reporters, LT Will Campbell declined multiple times and left<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Volin (@BenVolin) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenVolin\/status\/2020714413045805229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Campbell was the No. 4 overall pick out of LSU. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be like this.<\/p>\n<p>He had moments of promise in his rookie season, too. There&#8217;s tape that displays that he can be a good player.<\/p>\n<p>But this Super Bowl tape? Campbell will either watch it every day for intense motivation, or he&#8217;ll never, ever watch it again.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers didn&#8217;t even need that pressures stat to know that Campbell was getting burned. It was happening so often that it was impossible to miss.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly adds another question for the Pats this offseason. They would&#8217;ve felt they were set protecting Maye&#8217;s blindside for years to come when they drafted Campbell. Now? They can&#8217;t be so sure.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Campbell was involved in a lot of highlights during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The problem is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-463858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}