Khalen Saunders

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Sean McGuire & Khalen Saunders

ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ғᴄs sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ᴛᴏ ᴡɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇʏ ᴄᴜᴘ (ᴄғʟ) ᴀɴᴅ sᴜᴘᴇʀ ʙᴏᴡʟ (ɴғʟ) ᴛʜɪs sᴇᴀsᴏɴ!
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Looks like the final stat line for Khalen says that he was in on 4 plays and was credited with an assisted tackle. Not a ton, but getting to play in a Super Bowl (and winning) in your rookie season is pretty special. There's a lot of really good players throughout history that never got to even compete for a championship.
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Celebrating a Champion: WIU Head Coach Jared Elliott Discusses Leatherneck and Super Bowl Champion Khalen Saunders.
From WGEM-TV Sports:
https://wgem.com/2020/02/03/celebrating ... -saunders/
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Kansas City's Championship Parade is today, and what's Saunders wearing...WIU Purple and Gold:

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Former Leatherneck wins Super Bowl.
From the Western Courier:
https://westerncourier.com/46849/news/f ... uper-bowl/
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That feeling when you're a proud Leatherneck alumni, a (relatively) new dad, and a Super Bowl winner...

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Khalen got injured tonight.
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leatherneckcountry wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:33 pm Khalen got injured tonight.
I didn't see it happen, but I thought I saw someone say it was an elbow injury. Was that right?

From Khalen's twitter account, sounds like it's not too serious and he hopefully won't be out for too long:
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