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McDuffie Earns 2nd Super Bowl Trip in As Many Tries

The former Husky cornerback enjoys only the good life of the NFL.
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McDuffie Earns 2nd Super Bowl Trip in As Many Tries
McDuffie Earns 2nd Super Bowl Trip in As Many Tries

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The lingering image of Trent McDuffie at Husky Stadium was that of the forlorn University of Washington cornerback in 2021 losing badly to Washington State, watching Cougars players celebrating in the middle of the field after and then him alternately hugging friends and family, knowing his college career was over.

That would be the last time he would be denied anything special on the football field. 

On Sunday, the one-time, first-team All-Pac-12 cornerback advanced to his second Super Bowl in as many NFL seasons when his Kansas City Chiefs beat Baltimore 17-10 on the road.

McDuffie had a definitive hand in helping make this one happen with a heads-up end-zone fumble recovery at the outset of the fourth quarter, plus a couple of pass break-ups. 

Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers tried to lunge for the end zone only to have the Kansas City cornerback L'Jarius Sneed separate Flowers from the ball and McDuffie pounce on the football to protect a then 17-7 lead.

McDuffie entered the game with five forced fumbles this season, most for a DB in the NFL, but this was his first recovery.

A year ago, he overcame an injury-interrupted rookie season to share in the Chiefs' 38-35 victory over Philadelphia in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

This time, McDuffie has started all 19 games as Kansas City advances to Las Vegas and Allegiant Stadium for Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11.  

He can enter that stadium knowing that, two months earlier, the Huskies took a 34-31 victory Oregon there to claim the Pac-12 championship. 

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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