Andrew Whitworth comments on playing former team in Super Bowl
Andrew Whitworth spent the first 10 years of his NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals. So there are understandably some emotions as he gets ready to face his former team in the Super Bowl in a couple weeks.
Whitworth started 164 games with the Bengals before heading to the Los Angeles Rams in 2017. The four-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman spoke about playing against the team that drafted him, and it sounds like he has nothing but love for his former team.
“It’s really cool and really special,” Whitworth said, via NFL Network’s Bridget Condon. “Both places have my heart and both places have people I believe in.”
The Bengals drafted Whitworth with the 55th overall pick out of LSU in the 2006 NFL Draft. He made three Pro Bowls in Cincinnati before signing a three-year contract with Los Angeles in 2017. In 2018 — his second year with the Rams — he earned Offensive Lineman of the Year honors.
A former LSU standout, Whitworth was a two-time first team All-SEC nominee and helped the Tigers to the 2003 BCS National Championship.
Whitworth has only faced his former team one time in his career — a 24-10 Los Angeles victory in 2019. The Rams punched their ticket to the Super Bowl with a win over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship while the Bengals defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship.
The Super Bowl kicks off Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
Twitter will display your Super Bowl prediction on SoFi Stadium roof
Predictions are rolling in for Super Bowl LVI in a couple weeks. Twitter wants to give people the opportunity to broadcast theirs to the world — but there’s a catch.
Fans can tweet their predictions for the big game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams, and Twitter will show them on the SoFi Stadium roof. However, the predictions have to be six words or less in order to fit.
No pressure or anything, but if you tweet your prediction and it’s wrong, millions of people are going to see it.
The Bengals and Rams both punched their tickets to the game this past weekend. After trailing the Kansas City Chiefs 21-3 in the first half, Cincinnati roared back to pull off the comeback and make its first Super Bowl appearance since 1988. Los Angeles survived a few scares against the San Francisco 49ers to appear in the game — which now is effectively a home game at SoFi.