{"id":453447,"date":"2026-02-07T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453447\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:12:09","slug":"seven-legacy-building-nfl-records-milestones-at-stake-in-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453447\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven legacy-building NFL records\/milestones at stake in Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Sam Darnold: The ultimate journey, man<\/p>\n

With a win in Super Bowl LX, Sam Darnold<\/a> will have a strong argument for having pulled off the greatest career turnaround in NFL history. And he could earn that honor before his 29th birthday.<\/p>\n

In 2018, at just 21 years old, Darnold — drafted third overall by the Jets that offseason — became the youngest quarterback in the Super Bowl era to start in a season-opener for his team.<\/p>\n

Darnold’s Jets tenure ended in a trade to the Panthers prior to the 2021 season. His Carolina stint started off hot (3-0) before fizzling out in the form of seven losses over his final eight starts. After losing the Panthers’ QB1 job, Darnold moved on to San Francisco, serving as Brock Purdy<\/a>‘s backup in 2023.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to 2024, when Darnold joined the Vikings and became the first quarterback to win 14 games in his first season with a team. After a disastrous final two games to wrap the campaign, he then became the first quarterback not to return to a team that he won 14 games with the previous year.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks signed Darnold to a three-year deal during the 2025 offseason, and in Week 1, he became the only quarterback in NFL history to start a season-opener for four different franchises prior to his 30th birthday (Darnold turns 30 in June 2027).<\/p>\n

What better way to cap his career renaissance (and second consecutive 14-win season) than by setting a new Super Bowl milestone? A victory on Sunday would cement Darnold as the first starting QB to win a ring while on his fifth team.<\/p>\n

There have been other unlikely Super Bowl champions, of course. Brad Johnson was a ninth-round pick whose journey to Super Bowl glory included a pitstop in London with NFL Europe, and Trent Dilfer wasn’t even the Ravens’ starter until Week 9 of Baltimore’s 2000 championship season.<\/p>\n

But a Seahawks win would make Darnold singular in the annals of league history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold: The ultimate journey, man With a win in Super Bowl LX, Sam Darnold will have a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4687,1815,149723,8852,99],"class_list":["post-453447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-analysis","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl-research","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}