By Nate Mink
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Super Bowl LII is set for Sunday, and while no Syracuse football players will be playing in the game, there is still a Syracuse presence for football's biggest game.
Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia was a graduate assistant under former coach Paul Pasqualoni, and running backs coach Ivan Fears is going for his sixth Super Bowl alongside Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Fears spent the entire 1980s as an assistant at Syracuse.
You don't have to go back far to find the last Syracuse player to appear in the Super Bowl. Dwight Freeney played for the Falcons team that lost to the Patriots last year.
He was far from the only one. According to the Syracuse football media guide, 28 players have played on Super Bowl Sunday, 24 players have won the Super Bowl, and one player has won Super Bowl MVP honors.
Here is the complete list of all Syracuse football players who appeared in the Super Bowl. This list does not include players who were on Super Bowl teams but on injured reserve or players who were signed onto the practice squad.
It also doesn't include Syracuse men who were head coaches in the Super Bowl. There was only one of those, and most fans know that was Tom Coughlin, who coached the Giants to two Super Bowl wins against the Patriots and won another as an assistant with the Giants.
Photo by Kevin Rivoli
JOHN MACKEY - BALTIMORE COLTS
The revolutionary tight end was the first Syracuse football player to appear in the Super Bowl.
Mackey played in Super Bowl III, losing to the Joe Namath and the Jets, before winning Super Bowl V.
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LARRY CSONKA - MIAMI DOLPHINS
Csonka is the only Syracuse player who has won Super Bowl MVP honors. He played in three-straight Super Bowls with the Dolphins, winning two, including Super Bowl VII to cap an undefeated season in 1972.
Moody was one of three Syracuse players to play in Super Bowl XV, but he was the only one to earn a ring.
The defensive back from Nottingham High School who went on to play for both Ben Schwartzwalder and Frank Maloney was a 10th-round draft pick for the Buffalo Bills in 1976. He later coached SUNY Bockport.
KEN CLARKE AND STAN WALTERS - PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
Clarke and Walters were two linemen on the losing end of Super Bowl XV.
Clarke later spent time with the Seattle Seahawks and Minnesota Vikings, and Walters, a two-time Pro Bowl selection and member of the Eagles Hall of Fame, later became a broadcaster for the team.
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DAVE LAPHAM - CINCINNATI BENGALS
Lapham, a third-round pick for the Bengals in 1974, was a former captain at Syracuse. He participated in Super Bowl XVI.
Photo by Dick Blume
ART MONK - WASHINGTON REDSKINS
The Hall of Famer appeared in four Super Bowls with the Redskins (XVII, XVIII, XXII, XXVI) and won three of them.
The former first-round pick out of Syracuse ended his career with 940 receptions, 12,721 yards and 68 touchdowns.
Monk is a member of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
MIKE CHARLES - MIAMI DOLPHINS
"The Beast from the East" spent nine seasons in the NFL, with a Super Bowl XIX appearance among his many highlights.
Photo by John Berry
JOE MORRIS - NEW YORK GIANTS
He may not be a part of the famed No. 44 tradition at Syracuse, but Joe Morris carved out his own legacy at a school with rich history at running back.
Morris holds the school record for most yards in a game (252), season (1,372) and career (4,299).
He won Super Bowl XXI as a member of the Giants.
PAT KELLY - DENVER BRONCOS
The reserve tight end from Rochester played in Super Bowl XXIV before dying at age 37 because of complications from cancer in 2003.
Kelly also played with the New York Jets when former Syracuse coach Greg Robinson was the team's defensive line coach.
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DARYL JOHNSTON - DALLAS COWBOYS
The Moose appeared in Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII and XXX, winning all three as part of the Cowboys dynasty in the '90s.
Johnston was a member of the unbeaten 1987 Syracuse football team and earned All-Americ honors in 1988.
Photo by Frank Ordonez
KEVIN MITCHELL - SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
Mitchell didn't wait long to win a Super Bowl.
The 49ers won Super Bowl XXIX his rookie season after drafting him in the second round in 1994.
Mitchell later played with the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins.
Photo by Dick Blume
DAVE WOHLABAUGH - NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
Wohlabaugh was once the highest-paid center in the NFL, but before that he played in Super Bowl XXXI, losing to the Green Bay Packers.
Former Syracuse wide receiver Rob Carpenter was a practice squad member for the Packers that season.
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PAUL FRASE - GREEN BAY PACKERS
The defensive lineman played on a Packes team trying to repeat as Super Bowl champions in Super Bowl XXXII before falling to the Denver Broncos.
Frase was a multi-year winner of the Ed Block Courage Award.
MELVIN TUTEN - DENVER BRONCOS
Tuten (offensive line) played on the Broncos' Super Bowl XXXIII champion squad.
Tuten was actually a tight end at Syracuse before being drafted in the third round in 1995.
Photo by Frank Ordonez
ROLAND WILLIAMS - ST. LOUIS RAMS
The Rochester native was part of the "Greatest Show on Turf" for the Rams and won Super Bowl XXXIV following the 1999 season.
Former Syracuse offensive lineman John Flannery was also on that Rams team but did not play in the Super Bowl because he was on injured reserve.
Williams later played for the Raiders and Buccaneers, making it back to the Super Bowl with the Raiders but not playing in Super Bowl XXXVII because he was on injured reserve.
Photo by Dick Blume
ROB BURNETT AND QADRY ISMAIL - BALTIMORE RAVENS
Burnett was a member of Ravens' famed defense in 2000, racking up 10.5 sacks that season.
The Ravens' defeated the New York Giants, 34-7 in Super Bowl XXXV. They did not allow more than 10 points in any of their four playoff games.
Burnett was one of the top linemen in college football by the end of the career at Syrause in 1989, and the fifth-round pick went on to a long career with the Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins and Ravens. He finished with 73 career sacks.
Qadry "the missile" Ismail racked up more than 5,000 receiving yards in his lengthy career.
The Giants had two former Syracuse players: Offensive lineman Scott Kiernan and receiver Quinton Spotwood were both signed onto the practice squad.
Photo by Frank Ordonez
TEBUCKY JONES - NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
Jones was around for the very beginning of the Patriots current dynasty under Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, playing defensive back in Super Bowl XXXVI.
He has one of the best what-if moments in Super Bowl history, returning a fumble 97 yards for a touchdown that was negated by a holding penalty on the return.
Jones, a first-round pick in 1998, also spent time with the Saints and Dolphins.
Photo by Frank Ordonez
DONOVAN MCNABB - PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
The last time the Eagles were in the Super Bowl, they played the Patriots, Donovan McNabb was their quarterback and there was a whole debate about whether he was sick and threw up late in Super Bowl XXXIX.
McNabb is Syracuse's most decorated NFL quarterback but has been in the news for the wrong reasons recently, running into legal trouble and being accused of sexual misconduct.
Photo by Frank Ordonez
DWIGHT FREENEY, MARVIN HARRISON AND THE COLTS
Super Bowl XLI is the closest we've come to something resembling a Syracuse Super Bowl.
Marvin Harrison and Dwight Freeney were prominent members of the Colts' championship team.
Defensive end/linebacker Ryan LaCasee was also on that team, as was defensive end Josh Thomas.
Running back James Mungro was on injured reserve for the Colts.
Freeney returned to the Super Bowl with the Colts and Falcons, but his only ring came with Harrison and this crew.
DAVID TYREE - NEW YORK GIANTS
David Tyree's incredible catch in Super Bowl XLII is in the discussion for greatest play in Super Bowl history.
It helped the Giants in their victory against the undefeated New England Patriots, handing Brady and Belichick their first of two Super Bowl defeats.
ANTHONY SMITH - PITTSBURGH STEELERS AND GREEN BAY PACKERS
The third-round pick for the Pittsburgh Steelers is a two-time Super Bowl champion (XLVIII and XLV) with the Steelers and Packers, respectively.
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ART JONES - BALTIMORE RAVENS
One of the most recent Syracuse football greats to win a Super Bowl did so in Super Bowl XLVII, the game that experienced a slight delay because of a power outage in New Orleans.
Jameel McClain also won a Super Bowl ring with the Ravens this year but did not play in the Super Bowl after suffering a serious spinal cord contusion earlier in the season.
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CHANDLER JONES - NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
The highest-paid active Syracuse player in the NFL and the younger brother of Art Jones, Chandler Jones won Super Bowl XLIX with the Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks.
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