Winning a Super Bowl is hard enough. Winning multiple? That’s supposed to be reserved for Hall of Famers, franchise quarterbacks, and all-time greats. But somehow, these guys walked away with two or more rings, even if their careers were not exactly legendary in their own right.
Whether they lucked into the right teams, played just well enough to stick around, or were actually more important than anyone realized, these players somehow left the game with more jewelry than Dan Marino ever did. Let’s get into it.
Who were the lucky ones who won multiple Super Bowls in their careers?
Chris Long: 2x Champion New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles
Chris Long’s career was on life support when he joined New England in 2016. The former second-overall pick had never lived up to the hype with the Rams, and at 31, it looked like he was about to fade into irrelevance.
Then, he hit the championship lottery. He played a key rotational role in New England’s 2016 title run, helping the Pats pull off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history against Atlanta. And then? He dipped.
Long joined the Eagles in 2017—and not only did he win another ring, he also helped take down the very team with which he won his first one in back-to-back years. That’s like getting dumped and then stealing your ex’s new significant other.
Most guys don’t get one ring—Long got two in two years with two different teams. Not bad for someone who was almost out of the league.
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While he has risen to prominence since his playing days ended for his charming media personality and successful podcast, Green Light,” there are still probably a good chunk of NFL fans outside of the northeast that probably didn’t know Long was able to secure two Lombardi Trophies in such dramatic fashion nonetheless.
LeGarrette Blount: 3x Champion with New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles
LeGarrette Blount’s career was all over the place. He went from being undrafted to establishing himself as a legitimate starting back to getting cut by the Steelers for attitude issues, to becoming a Patriots playoff hero.
And all over the course of nine seasons!
Say what you will about Mr. Blount… but the fact of the matter is that the man won championships. And he did so in a style that was true to himself! Because he didn’t just win championships—he bulldozed his way through them—coming to life in the postseason and continually raising his level when the pressure was at its highest.
It was just the regular season consistency that he seemed to struggle with… it was almost like it bored him.
In any case, the guy was built like a battering ram, played like he had a personal vendetta against opposing defenses, and somehow turned an up-and-down career into three Super Bowl rings through a path of pure chaos.
Following his fallout with the Steelers, he resurrected his career in New England. He won his first ring in 2014, helped the Patriots again in 2016, and then, like Long, immediately flipped to Philly, where he led the Eagles in rushing yards during their Super Bowl run in 2017—ironically beating the same Patriots squad he just left.
Have to wonder if the two discussed this idea over some, shall we say, extracurricular activities…
Anyway—the win over the Pats helped secure his legacy and made him one of six players to have consecutive Super Bowl titles for different franchises—and pushed him toward finishing his impressive NFL career, having scored 11 playoff rushing touchdowns, which are tied for the sixth-most in NFL history.
Three rings. Two teams. One of the most dominant postseason running backs ever. And yet, if you asked a casual fan, they probably wouldn’t even remember he played for the Eagles.
Charlie Batch: 2x Champion with Pittsburgh Steelers
Charlie Batch wasn’t a star. He wasn’t a Pro Bowler. He wasn’t even a guy you would think twice about slotting into your franchise in Madden.
But that didn’t stop him from managing to become a two-time Super Bowl champion!
Batch started his career as a failed franchise quarterback in Detroit. He was taken in the second round out of Eastern Michigan, and he was supposed to be the guy in the Motor City before quickly becoming just another Lions draft bust. But in true NFL survivor fashion, he reinvented himself in Pittsburgh—not as a starter, but as the backup you could trust not to completely tank the game if called upon.
From 2002 to 2012, Batch made just nine total starts, going 6 and 3 in those games. But thanks to being in the right locker room at the right time, he picked up two rings in 2005 and 2008. The man had a front-row seat to a dynasty without ever having to take the hits.
The best part? When he actually did step in, he was shockingly decent—notching a couple of nice wins and playing steady football when Big Ben was sidelined. He may not be a legend in NFL history, but in Pittsburgh, he’s the patron saint of backup quarterbacks and two-time Super Bowl champion nonetheless.
Jimmy Garoppolo: 2x Champion with New England Patriots
Jimmy Garoppolo is the ultimate “right place, right time” guy. He’s got two Super Bowl rings thanks to standing near Tom Brady—and he even managed to parlay the couple of starts that he did get to make into 10s of millions of dollars.
Drafted in 2014 as the heir apparent to Brady, Garoppolo spent his first three seasons as the most hyped backup in the NFL, thanks in part to Bill Belichick’s thinly veiled plan to replace Brady with him.
But while the debate over Brady vs. Jimmy G raged on and tensions rose, Garoppolo collected two rings in 2014 and 2016 without playing a single Super Bowl snap.
Then, New England shipped him to San Francisco, and for a while, it looked like Belichick might have actually been right. Jimmy G led the 49ers to Super Bowl LIV, had a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, and then? He collapsed.
That is the dark humor in Jimmy G being a two-time champion as a backup… because once he finally got his shot to prove himself with the San Francisco 49ers he crashed and burned in the biggest moment.
Since then, he’s been a walking injury report, struggling to stay on the field while bouncing from San Francisco to Las Vegas. But no matter how many times he gets hurt, he’ll always have more rings than Dan Marino.
Dwight White: 4x Champion with Pittsburgh Steelers
If you’re building a Steel Curtain Mount Rushmore, you’re thinking of Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, and Mel Blount. But Dwight White? He gets criminally overlooked.
Nicknamed “Mad Dog” because of his relentless motor and absurd intensity on the gridiron and in the locker room, White was a key part of Pittsburgh’s four Super Bowl-winning teams in the ’70s, playing defensive end on one of the greatest defenses in NFL history.
His most memorable moment came in Super Bowl IX when he was hospitalized with pneumonia just days before the game, lost 18 pounds, and somehow still suited up to start.
It wasn’t just moral support either… he actually made a pivotal play in their Super Bowl match-up against Fran Tarkenton and the Minnesota Vikings, when he recorded an early safety that attributed for the team’s only points during the half.
Guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Steelers owner Dan Rooney called White “one of the greatest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform” and he was named to the Steelers All-Time team in 1982 and again in 2007.
Still, he has managed to fall out of the public spotlight and many NFL fans memories in the time since.
Lonie Paxton: 3x Champion with New England Patriots
Lonie Paxton spent 12 years in the NFL, and for 9 of those years, he played for the Patriots, which means that he, too, benefited greatly from playing with Brady.
Paxton was the Patriots’ long snapper from 2000 to 2008, meaning he was there for all three of New England’s early dynasty days and won 3 rings with the Pats.
While the long snapper position doesn’t quite get the shine that some others do. Still! Three rings are three rings… Even if everyone is surprised to hear you accomplished that!
Three rings, never a bad snap in a big moment, and a celebration for the ages. It’s not bad for a guy whose job is only noticed when it goes wrong.
Jeff Hostetler: 2x Champion with New York Giants
Jeff Hostetler might be the greatest emergency quarterback story ever told.
For seven years, Hostetler was the Giants’ insurance policy, sitting behind Phil Simms with no real chance of seeing the field. Then, fate intervened. Simms went down in 1990, and Hostetler was suddenly thrust into action midseason when Simms went down with an injury, leading New York through the playoffs and into Super Bowl XXV.
The result? A stunning upset over the Buffalo Bills and a championship for the ages. Hostetler played mistake-free football, made clutch throws, and cemented himself as one of the unlikeliest Super Bowl-winning QBs in history, finishing with 20 completions for 222 yards and one touchdown with no interceptions, outdueling Bills quarterback and future Hall of Famer Jim Kelly.
But what do most people forget? That was actually his second ring. Hostetler won his first Super Bowl in 1983 as a backup for the Giants, never touching the field as they boat-raced the Broncos 39 to 20.
So, in a weird way, he went from being completely irrelevant to being the guy who saved a season, all while quietly stacking two rings along the way.
Damon Huard: 2x Champion with New England Patriots
Watch out, folks, we have another Tom Brady merchant… the little-known Damon Huard, who, over the course of 8 years, made 27 starts and posted a 15-12 record as a backup, which is not that bad considering he came into the league as an undrafted player.
Though the fact of the matter is that if you even stepped foot in Foxborough in the early 2000s, chances are you walked away with a ring.
I mean, think about Damon Huard… He barely played, but still, he ended up with two of them.
After bouncing around as a career backup, even making a pitstop in NFL Europe with the Frankfurt Galaxy, Huard landed in New England just in time for the Brady-Belichick takeover, backing up Brady during the Patriots’ first two Super Bowl wins in 2001 and 2003.
His biggest impact may have simply been holding a clipboard and imitating Peyton Manning’s cadences prior to the team’s matchups with the Colts, as he threw for a grand total of 27 passes in his New England career…
But he ended up with a pair of rings, which is more than many can say. Sure, the man’s job was essentially watching Tom Brady do Tom Brady things, but when you are a two-time champion, you are a two-time champion, and no one can take that away from you… even if everyone forgets it!
Mike Wilson: 4x Champion with San Francisco 49ers
The 1980s 49ers dynasty was built on the genius of Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Bill Walsh. But they obviously were not the only guys on the roster.
Enter Mike Wilson, who, sure… was just kind of there—but he was there for everything.
Wilson was a ninth-round pick who never even cracked 500 yards in a season, yet he was on the roster for all four of San Francisco’s Super Bowl wins.
His total contributions in those title games? Ten catches. That’s right—ten career Super Bowl catches, four rings. Talk about efficiency!
However, we should give him some shine for the way he performed during the 1983 playoffs when he set career bests with nine catches, 83 yards, and two scores in two games before the 49ers were jettisoned out of action.
Dennis Dixon: 2x Champion with Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens
Dennis Dixon might have had one of the strangest NFL careers ever.
A Heisman hopeful at Oregon, Dixon tore his ACL in his senior year, causing his draft stock to plummet. He was taken in the fifth round by the Steelers in 2008, where he spent his entire NFL career as a backup.
While the net of his career wasn’t exactly what he desired, the result was still two Super Bowl rings in 2008 and 2012 for two different teams.
Dixon played just four games and attempted only 59 passes in the NFL. He never even played in a playoff game, and yet? He somehow walked away with more championships than Dan Marino.
Right place, right time.
