What NFL Player Has Won the Most Super Bowls?
With the Super Bowl just around the corner, we thought we’d take a look at which NFL player has won the most championships. Surprisingly, it’s not Tom Brady – he’s tied for the most Super Bowl wins with three other players. So, who holds the record?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady has played in ten Super Bowls, winning seven of them. He is the only player in NFL history to win that many Super Bowls. Brady has also been named the Super Bowl MVP five times, more than any other player in history.
Charles Haley
Charles Haley is a former NFL player who won five Super Bowls during his career. He won two Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers and three with the Dallas Cowboys.
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning is a retired American football quarterback who played 18 seasons in the National Football League, primarily with the Indianapolis Colts. He played college football for the University of Tennessee, and was selected by the Colts as the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft.
Manning is a five-time NFL Most Valuable Player award winner, was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI, and is a two-time Super Bowl champion. During his time with the Colts, he led the team to eight division championships, two AFC championships, and won Super Bowl XLI. He was released by the Colts after 14 seasons due to salary cap constraints. His release made him an unrestricted free agent able to sign with any team of his choice.
Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith is a retired American football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 19 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills. He holds the NFL career record for most quarterback sacks with 200, and was the only player to surpass the career 200-sack mark until 2011. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009, his first year of eligibility.
Smith was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. As a senior at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, he was elected class president. Smith attended Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team from 1981 to 1984. As a freshman, he set a freshman sack record (since broken) with 11 sacks. In 23 games over three seasons at Virginia Tech, Smith totalled 33 sacks and helped lead the Hokies to a share of the 1981 conference title and their first-ever bowl appearance in 1982.
In 1985, Smith was drafted by the Buffalo Bills with the first overall pick in the 1985 NFL Draft. He played for Buffalo from 1985 to 1999; his career low point came after his trade to Denver led by John Elway during Super Bowl 32 when Broncos won their first ever Lombardi Trophy by defeating Green Bay Packers 31–24 after being down 17 points at halftime becoming only second team after New England Patriots comeback against Atlanta Falcons delivered biggest comeback win 34–28 in OT during Super Bowl LI although Patriots lost game 28–38 despite not scoring any points during first quarter which is biggest score deficit for any team that went on to win Lombardi Trophy as well as being biggest score deficit overcome by any team to win any game since 1949 AAFC Championship game where Browns rallied from 14–0 deficit against 49ers overcoming two early TD passes from San Francisco’s YA Tittle then outscored 49ers 27–7 en route to 30–28 victory that gave Cleveland their third consecutive AAFC title before Browns joined NFL as part of league’s 1950 expansion).
During his time with Buffalo, Smith became one of only four players to have played on all four of Buffalo’s Super Bowl teams (XXV, XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII). He is also one of three defensive players (the others being Reggie White and Leonard Marshall) in NFL history to have recorded 10 or more sacks in 10 different seasons (a record he currently shares with White). In 1999 season finale against Indianapolis Colts which saw Peyton Manning make his debut as starting quarterback for Colts passing for 302 yards completing 25 out of 43 attempts including TD pass to Marvin Harrison as well as rushing TD Bruce plighted Achilles tendon during game then missed entire 2000 season then returned healthy starting all 16 games for Bills during 2001 season recording double digit sack total for 11th time of his career then missed 4 games due 2 knee injuries during 2002 season but still recorded 9 sacks then became free agent after 2002 season signing lucrative contract worth $32 million with Washington Redskins playing 3 seasons recording 30 sacks before announcing retirement following 2006 season.
