USF is assured of having a Bull on a fourth straight Super Bowl team and eight of the last nine
 
TAMPA, JAN. 27, 2023 – When the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals take the field Sunday night at 6:30 p.m. (CBS) for the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium, three USF Bulls will have a vested interest and all three are from the Bay area.
 
Former USF center Austin Reiter (2011-14), a Bradenton native, will be looking to win his third AFC Championship as part of the Chiefs and become the USF leader with three Super Bowl team appearances. Meanwhile, his Chiefs teammate Marquez Valdes-Scantling (2016-17), a St. Petersburg native, will be looking to earn his first Super Bowl appearance and become the 15^th different Bull to be part of a Super Bowl team.
 
On the other side of the field, Bengals' tight end Mitchell Wilcox (2016-19), a Tarpon Springs native, will be looking to earn his second straight Super Bowl appearance with Cincinnati, which lost to the Los Angeles Rams, 23-20, in Super Bowl LVI last season.
 
No matter who wins, USF is assured of having a Super Bowl team member for the fourth straight season and for the eighth time in the last nine Super Bowls. A total of 14 Bulls have made 18 total Super Bowl team appearances, with 10 becoming Super Bowl champions and Jason Pierre-Paul (2009) the only two-time champion (XLVI with the Giants & LV with the Buccaneers). Bulls Pierre-Paul, Reiter, quarterback B.J. Daniels (2009-12) and defensive back Kayvon Webster (2009-12) have each made two Super Bowl team appearances.
 
Reiter, who started at center for the Chiefs' Super Bowl LIV winning team in the 2019 season and was part of their Super Bowl LV team that lost to Tampa Bay and fellow Bull Pierre-Paul in the 2020 season, is a member of the Chiefs' practice squad.
 
Valdes-Scantling had a touchdown catch in the Chiefs' divisional playoff victory over Jacksonville and is the Chiefs' third-leading receiver on the season with 42 catches for 687 yards and two touchdowns on the year. Scantling, who set the Bulls' single-season receiving yards record with 879 in 2017, has collected 165 receptions for 2,840 yards and 15 touchdowns in his five-year NFL career with the Chiefs and Packers. He has at least one catch in 15 of 17 games on the 2022 season.
 
Wilcox has played in 16 games for the Bengals on the season and collected 17 receptions for 139 yards and a touchdown. He made one catch in the Bengals' divisional round victory over Buffalo and has logged 23 receptions for 155 yards and a touchdown on his three-year NFL career with Cincinnati. Wilcox holds the USF career records for receiving by a tight end with 100 catches for 1,326 yards.
 
ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 26th season in 2022 while completing construction on a new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections, including 2021 consensus All-American kick returner Brian Battie, and had 32 first-team all-conference selections. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and has made 10 bowl game appearances (going 6-4 in those games), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and most recently making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. The Bulls posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
 
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