But the play might wind up as the signature for his career, and if it is, he’s fine with that.

In effect, McKinnon traded the ultimate in personal glory - scoring the potential winning touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl - for the greater good of his team, and for himself, a championship ring.īack for a third season at Chiefs training camp, McKinnon said he is hoping for another Super Bowl chance, this time in a situation that doesn’t require personal sacrifice. “It started to become bigger than I thought it was.” “Afterward, after I had a chance to sit back, it really hit me,” McKinnon said. His phone started blowing up as well with similar messages from players and friends from around the league. His teammates congratulated him for the selfless play. It was only after the game - which the Chiefs won, 38-35, on Harrison Butker’s 27-yard field goal with eight seconds remaining - that the consequences of his move dawned on McKinnon. “We were just running a play and I was just doing what I was supposed to.” “I don’t think in the moment I understood the magnitude of it,” McKinnon said. They were in the situation they refer to as “church mode,” a term they use when they want the ball carrier to give himself up by taking a knee before scoring - which is exactly what McKinnon did. The Chiefs, in a game that was tied at the time, were setting up for the potential game-winning field goal and wished to leave as little time as possible for a rebuttal from Jalen Hurts and the Eagles. It was an easy call for McKinnon, a running back with seven seasons of NFL experience. Jerick McKinnon was just doing what his coaches asked of him in the final moments of Super Bowl LVII when he willingly took a knee short of the end zone to allow the Kansas City Chiefs to burn more time, rather than score an easy touchdown that the Philadelphia Eagles seemed willing to give him.

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