When you think of the best active NFL players with multiple Super Bowl rings, obvious names like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones and Von Miller immediately come to mind.
But prepare to be shocked in this list when we bring 10 unlikely and improbable names of active players who have already captured not one, but two Super Bowl championship rings.
Blaine Gabbert
If you were to tell Jacksonville Jaguars fans back in 2011 that Blaine Gabbert would be a two-time Super Bowl champion, they would be over the moon.
The only problem for Jaguars fans? Gabbert would win both those Super Bowl rings as a backup quarterback outside of Jacksonville.
The Jaguars infamously traded up to select Gabber 10th overall in the legendary 2011 NFL Draft — one spot before the Houston Texans took future Hall of Famer JJ Watt.
Gabbert lasted just three seasons in Jacksonville, compiling a woeful 5-and-22 record with 22 touchdowns against 24 interceptions. In 2014, his career as a journeyman backup QB began with the San Francisco 49ers.
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Gabbert signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019 and won his first Super Bowl ring as Tom Brady’s understudy in the 2020 season.
After Chad Henne’s retirement in 2023, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Gabbert to serve as Patrick Mahomes’ backup. Gabbert appeared twice in garbage time during the regular season and watched from the sidelines as the Chiefs outlasted his old team, the 49ers, in overtime to win Super Bowl 58.
He never emerged as a franchise QB that the Jaguars envisioned. But Gabbert has climbed the NFL mountaintop twice. Doesn’t matter how he got there — he’s forever cemented as a winner in NFL lore.
Don’t believe us? Kiss the two rings.
Jimmy Garoppolo
Jimmy G is one of the most highly-scrutinized quarterbacks of his era. San Francisco 49ers fans will never forget him missing Emmanuel Sanders for the go-ahead touchdown late in Super Bowl 54 — nor his lackluster performance in the 2021 NFC Championship Game loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
Garoppolo did himself no favors with rebuilding his reputation either when he joined the Las Vegas Raiders in 2023 free agency. It took the Silver and Black just six games to bench their pricey free agent signing in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell.
Anywho, that’s enough negativity on Garoppolo. The joke is on you, haters because Garoppolo himself is a two-time Super Bowl champion.
His tenure with the New England Patriots feels like a lifetime ago now. But don’t forget that Jimmy G captured Super Bowl 49 and 51 rings as Tom Brady’s backup — watching the GOAT orchestrate signature comebacks in both those games from the sidelines.
Not that he had to put in TOO MUCH WORK for either one of them, but this you can’t take away: Garoppolo has more rings than Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Kurt Warner, Aaron Rodgers, Dan Marino, Philip Rivers, Russell Wilson and Warren Moon.
Eat it, haters!!!
Ronald Jones II
Everyone knows that “RoJo” was a key part of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad that won Super Bowl 55 in the 2020 season — the first year of the short but sweet Tom Brady era.
Though Leonard Fournette took over as Tampa’s lead rusher in the postseason, Jones led the Bucs in the regular season with 978 yards and seven touchdowns. In total, Jones finished the regular season with 1,143 yards of offense before taking a backseat to Fournette in the postseason.
Jones was productive in the Bucs’ surprising Super Bowl 55 blowout of the Kansas City Chiefs, rushing for 61 yards on 12 attempts as Tampa cruised to a 31-9 victory.
Little did the football world know, however, that Jones would eventually double up on Super Bowl rings — JUST NOT WITH Brady’s Bucs.
In 2022 free agency, Jones signed with the Chiefs to serve as insurance for Isiah Pacheco and Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Though he only had 17 rush attempts in the regular season, Jones was on the Chiefs’ final roster as they squeaked past the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57.
Jones was inactive for the big game, but he nonetheless joined the rare club of running backs who won a Super Bowl with two different teams.
Kendall Blanton
After five years with Missouri’s football program, Blanton had to watch his name go uncalled at the 2019 NFL Draft. Not to worry, because the hulking 6-foot-6, 260-pound tight end would land a contract with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent.
Blanton saw very limited playing time over his first three seasons with the Rams, but Sean McVay liked to use him as a blocking tight end. Blanton’s first career TD game at an ideal time — in the Rams’ 2021 NFC Divisional Round win over Tom Brady’s Bucs.
Blanton would win his first championship ring when the Rams narrowly held off Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl 56.
He eventually landed on the Washington Commanders’ practice squad, only to be released before signing with the Chiefs in 2022. Blanton was signed back to the Rams’ practice squad for two months before getting let go, and the Chiefs picked him back up late in the season.
Blanton didn’t actually play a snap for the Chiefs in 2022, but he was on their final roster as they went on to beat the Eagles in Super Bowl 53. How about that? Two rings in two years on two different teams. Deion Sanders style. Love it, Mr. Blanton.
Khalen Saunders
Fans know Saunders today as a starting defensive tackle on the New Orleans Saints — having signed a three-year deal with the NFC South club in 2023 free agency.
But unless you’re a die-hard Kansas City fan, you probably had no clue that Saunders is also a proud owner of not one, but two Super Bowl championship rings.
The Chiefs drafted the standout defensive tackle out of Western Illinois in the third round — 84th overall – back in 2019.
They hoped that Saunders would form a dangerous 1-2 punch at defensive tackle with superstar Chris Jones in Steve Spagnuolo’s defense. Saunders never developed into a star, and the Chiefs instead used him in a rotational role over his four seasons there.
Saunders was a member of the 2019 and 2022 Chiefs’ squads that won Super Bowls 54 and 57 against the 49ers and Eagles, respectively. Saunders had his best season in 2022, tallying 3.5 sacks which he turned into a shiny payday with New Orleans.
Brandon Bolden
Bolden has been in the NFL since 2012, which isn’t half-bad considering a) he went undrafted and b) he’s in his mid-30s and plays the devalued running back position.
Bolden’s two best seasons as a sparingly-used running back came with the New England Patriots way-back-when in 2012 and 2013. He didn’t do a whole lot in his lone season with the Miami Dolphins in 2018 and opted out of the 2020 season because of COVID-19.
In between all of that, Bolden returned to the Patriots in the 2019 season. He enjoyed an increased role as a pass-catcher in 2021 before signing with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2022 free agency.
Yes, it hasn’t been easy tracking Bolden’s movements as an NFL journeyman throughout his career. So it’s easy to forget that he was also on the Patriots’ teams that won Super Bowls 49 and 51 — along with the aforementioned Jimmy Garoppolo!
Bolden saw very little action in both those seasons, so it’s hard to fault anyone for not knowing that he’s a two-time Super Bowl champion. It’s also surprising to notice when you consider that his most productive years came in the Patriots’ non-Super Bowl-winning seasons.
Elandon Roberts
After spending his first four seasons as a rotational piece in New England, Roberts began to make a name for himself after he landed in Miami in 2020.
Roberts proved himself to be a quality starter in both 2022 and 2023 as a member of the Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively. He had a career-high 4.5 sacks in 2022 and hit the 100-tackle mark for the first time in his career.
Roberts is one of the few former Patriots who went on to fare better after leaving Bill Belichick and company. Of course, the versatile linebacker had his best career moments with the Patriots — where he won Super Bowl 51 and 53 rings.
Roberts saw very little playing time in both those big games, but who cares? Nobody’s taking those two Super Bowls away from the former Houston standout.
Mike Edwards
A third-round pick of the Buccaneers — 99th overall — in 2019, Edwards saw limited playing time as a defensive back over his first three NFL seasons. Nonetheless, Edwards won his first Super Bowl ring on the star-studded 2020 Buccaneers during his sophomore season.
The former Kentucky standout didn’t quite put his name on the map until Week 2 of the 2021 season – where he recorded two pick-sixes off of Matt Ryan in a Bucs’ blowout win over the Atlanta Falcons.
Kansas City signed Edwards in 2023 free agency, and he wound up playing more than half of the team’s defensive snaps. Edwards started all four of the Chiefs’ postseason games, even recording an interception off of Tua Tagovailoa in the wild-card round.
Edwards won his second championship ring when the Chiefs defeated the 49ers in overtime of Super Bowl 58.
Donovan Smith
A second-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2015, Smith figuratively started playing his best football following Tom Brady’s arrival in 2020. The Bucs’ o-line of Smith, Ryan Jensen, Alex Cappa, Ali Marpet and Tristan Wirfs simply didn’t get enough love during the team’s unlikely Super Bowl championship run.
But that Smith guy sure held up his end of the bargain. Brady was only sacked six times in the Bucs’ four postseason games, leading Tampa Bay to a Super Bowl 55 championship — on their home field no less — when they crushed Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs.
After a disappointing final year with Brady and the Bucs in 2022, Smith hit free agency and settled on a cheap deal with the Chiefs. Kansas City needed new linemen after Pro Bowler Orlando Brown Jr. signed with the rival Cincinnati Bengals, hence the additions of both Smith and Jawaan Taylor.
Like Taylor, Smith struggled mightily on the Kansas City o-line. The two combined for a ridiculous 29 penalties during the season, per Pro Football Focus. Taylor himself was responsible for a league-leading 20 infractions.
Nonetheless, Smith and the Chiefs’ o-line began to clean it up in the postseason. Mahomes was only sacked four times as the Chiefs danced through the AFC en route to a Super Bowl 58 victory against San Francisco.
Smith doesn’t have Hall of Fame credentials like, say, Trent Williams of the 49ers. But with two Super Bowl rings in his back pocket, Smith can relax now knowing that he’s reached football’s ultimate prize not once, but twice.
Anything else he accomplished from here is just gravy.
Between Smith, Gabbert, Jones and Edwards, we’re starting to wonder if you could field an NFL lineup out of players who won Super Bowl rings with the Buccaneers AND the Chiefs.
Any active Bucs players from that Super Bowl 55 championship team may wanna sign with Kansas City ASAP. Clearly, that’s the path to go for a second ring!!
Ted Karras
The veteran center is today well-known as a key cog on the Cincinnati Bengals’ offensive line.
Karras, of course, was part of the massive makeover on Cincy’s o-line in the 2022 offseason following their Super Bowl 56 loss to the Rams. Karras, Alex Kappa and La’el Collins all signed lucrative multi-year deals with Cincinnati to upgrade Joe Burrow’s protection.
Though Karras has done well for himself in the Jungle, one shall not shed a tear for him if he fails to capture a Super Bowl ring with the Bengals. That’s because the former 2016 sixth-round pick out of Illinois already has a pair of Super Bowl rings.
Easy to forget now, but Karras won both those championships as a member of the Patriots’ offensive line during their second dynasty run. He won it all as a rookie during the 2016 season and another for good measure in the 2018 campaign.
After four years in New England, Karras spent one year in Miami before returning to the Patriots in 2021. The third-generation NFLer then turned his strong play with the Patriots into a shiny $18 million deal from the Bengals.
Now he’s just one ring away from matching Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Troy Aikman’s sum of three…
