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11 Super Bowl 57 Players Who Played College Ball In South Dakota, Iowa, or Nebraska

Super Bowl 57 is coming our way on Sunday. Both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are looking for their second Super Bowl titles in recent memory, and both have rosters featuring lots of Midwestern talent.

An obvious South Dakota connection on the Eagles is South Dakota State's Dallas Goedert. Goedert was drafted by the Eagles in the year immediately following their Super Bowl win after the 2017 season.

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Super Bowl 57 is coming our way on Sunday. Both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are looking for their second Super Bowl titles in recent memory, and both have rosters featuring lots of Midwestern talent.

An obvious South Dakota connection on the Eagles is South Dakota State's Dallas Goedert. Goedert was drafted by the Eagles in the year immediately following their Super Bowl win after the 2017 season.

11 Super Bowl 57 Players Who Played College Ball In South Dakota, Iowa, or Nebraska

Philadelphia Eagles

Marcus Epps - Wyoming Cowboys (CA)

Dallas Goedert - South Dakota State Jackrabbits (Born in Havana, North Dakota)

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Dallas Goedert (Getty Images)
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Cam Jurgens - Nebraska Cornhuskers (Born in Beatrice, Nebraska)

Jack Stoll - Nebraska Cornhuskers (CO)

Ndamukong Suh - Nebraska Cornhuskers (OR)

Julian Good-Jones - Iowa State Cyclones (Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

Matt Leo - Iowa State Cyclones (Australia)

 

Kansas City Chiefs

Jack Cochrane - South Dakota Coyotes (Born in Mount Vernon, Iowa)

USD - Jack Cochrane
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Chris Oladokun - South Dakota State Jackrabbits (FL)

Dicaprio Bootle - Nebraska Cornhuskers (FL)

Ihmir Smith-Marsette - Iowa Hawkeyes (NJ)

There are great players with local ties to root for on each side of Sunday's big game.

Now the question remains: who will take home the Lombardi Trophy?

South Dakota Born NFL Players of this Century

While not a traditional powerhouse Nation Football League feeder, South Dakota has produces a fair number of football players that went on to the big time in the NFL.

Here are some that have played on various teams over the last couple of decades.

 

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