The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the second Super Bowl in franchise history on Sunday, throttling the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9. All of the chatter in New England (and everywhere else, frankly) surrounds Tom Brady winning his seventh championship and garnering game MVP honors for the fifth time. Here in Connecticut, though, a less-heralded member of the Bucs is now a Super Bowl champion.
Andrew Adams won his first title, playing as a backup safety on a defense that smothered Patrick Mahomes and the high-powered Chiefs offense (which also boasts former Husky Anthony Sherman). In the process, Adams becomes the seventh former UConn Husky to win a championship at the NFL level.
Here are the other UConn alums to own a Super Bowl ring:
Will Beatty: Beatty owns a pair of rings despite not playing in either of the two Super Bowls in which his teams appeared. First with the Giants, the team that drafted him in 2009, he was the starting left tackle in 2011 before detaching his retina in November, missing out on New York's second Super Bowl win over the Patriots.
Then in 2017 he was signed by the Eagles as a safety valve in November, appearing in a single game as Philadelphia went on to win the title, again over New England. Beatty is the only Husky with multiple Super Bowl wins as a player.
Nick Giaquinto: UConn's single-game rushing record holder (277 yards against Holy Cross in 1976), Giaquinto appeared in back-to-back Super Bowls with Washington. He notched a win in Super Bowl XVII (1983), though he didn't record any stats. The following year he had a pair of catches in a Washington loss to the Raiders, after which Giaquinto retired.
He'd go on to coach baseball at Sacred Heart for 29 years, leading the Pioneers to the Division I level in 2000.
Obi Melifonwu: The former second-round draft choice of the Patriots was on the team in the 2018 season, when New England beat Los Angeles 13-3. Melifonwu, however, didn't play in the game. His lone appearance that postseason was in the AFC Championship against Kansas City, where he recorded a tackle.
Anthony Sherman: The Massachusetts native was denied a second straight championship in Sunday's loss. The former UConn fullback, though, did win last year with Kansas City in the victory over San Francisco. Mostly a special teams ace, Sherman was only on the field for seven offensive snaps, but he made the most of them. Most notably, he threw the key block to spring Damien Williams for what was essentially the game-clinching touchdown.
John Dorsey: While the two-time Yankee Conference Defensive Player of the Year didn't win a title in his five-year NFL stint as a player, he's won two rings in front office roles. He was a scout with Green Bay when they won Super Bowl XXXI in 1996, and moved up as the director of college scouting when the Packers won their next title 14 years later in the 2010 season.
Tyler Lorenzen: This one you might not remember, but the former Husky quarterback owns a Super Bowl ring despite never appearing in a regular season or playoff game. Converted to tight end after college, Lorenzen was on the Saints' practice squad for the duration of their 2009 Super Bowl winning season, thus earning himself a ring.
Andrew Adams: Now Adams joins the list as the seventh former UConn player to win a ring. Undrafted in 2016, the safety appeared in every game this season for Tampa Bay. Though he didn't record any stats on Sunday, he actually had his best game of the season in the NFC Championship Game against Green Bay, appearing in over half of the Bucs' defensive snaps and making five total tackles.