Former Davidson High School teammates Jaquiski Tartt and Jimmie Ward are hoping to lead the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl win.
If the 49ers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday in Miami, starting safeties Jimmie Ward and Jaquiski Tartt would become the first Mobile area players to win an NFL championship in 24 years. It would also snap a streak of three consecutive Super Bowls lost by a Mobile area player.
Last year, Mark Barron of St. Paul’s lost Super Bowl LIII as a member of the Los Angeles Rams. Two years ago, Daphne’s Eric Lee lost Super Bowl LII with the New England Patriots. The Atlanta Falcons, featuring Foley’s Julio Jones, lost Super Bowl LI.
Before Jones, the last Mobile area player to appear in a Super Bowl was Theodore native Etric Pruitt, who played in Super Bowl XL for the Seattle Seahawks, who fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The last ‘big game’ winners from the area were Dallas Cowboys teammates Leon Lett and Sherman Williams, who won Super Bowl XXX in 1996; Williams played his high school football at Blount, and Lett at Fairhope.