Hoosiers in the Pros: NFL Playoffs Championship Update

One Indiana Hoosier is heading to the Super Bowl after the Los Angeles Rams won the NFC Championship round of the playoffs.

Four Hoosiers were in action on Sunday as they tried to help their teams to the Super Bowl, with only one of them coming out victorious.

Rodger Saffold, of the Los Angeles Rams, will be the lone player representing the Hoosiers football program on Feb 3, when the Rams take on the New England Patriots in a rematch of the 2002 Super Bowl.

The Rams took down the New Orleans Saints in the first of two games on Sunday, 26-23.

Saffold, an All-Pro selection in 2017, has started all but three games in his career and has been a member of the offensive line that has lead to a lot of the Rams’ success over the last two seasons.

The 30-year old will be playing in his first Super Bowl, that will take place in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga.

For the Rams, this is their first Super Bowl appearance since they moved back to Los Angles in 2016, and their first as a franchise since Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, in which they lost to the Patriots, 20-17.

This will be the Rams fourth Super Bowl appearance as a franchise, as they go for their second win in the big game.

Making the playoffs in each of the last two years, it is the first time they have made it to the playoffs back-to-back years since 2004, when they lost in the NFC Championship game.

Wide receivers, Simmie Cobbs and Shane Wynn, both on the Saints, and Chiefs linebacker, Robert McCray, didn’t see any action as their respective teams lost this weekend.