Texas Football: Analaytical deep dive of former Longhorns in Super Bowl

The 40-year-old former Texas football player Kyle Shanahan is not the only significant former Longhorn competing in Super Bowl LIV.

The Super Bowl includes a number of former Texas football program, and graduates from the university in general. As the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers get set to square off in Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2, Texas Exes can be proud of what they have out on the field among their fellow alumni.

Among those former graduates of the University of Texas-Austin and members of the Texas Longhorns football program that are competing in the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and 49ers, even one of the head coaches is included. The 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t make a huge splash impact on the gridiron playing for the Longhorns in the early 2000’s (racking up just 127 receiving yards and no scores), but that did jump start his path to football coaching.

Shanahan graduated from the University of Texas in the early 2000’s and took his first college football coaching job as a graduate assistant with the UCLA Bruins in 2003. He has since made headway at the college and NFL ranks as a head coach with the 49ers and an offensive coordinator with four other professional teams.

The other three former Longhorns that are competing in Super Bowl LIV, or are at least on one of the two teams, includes Richard Hightower, Marquise Goodwin, and Alex Okafor. Two of those three aforementioned names did make a big impact on their teams during the regular season over the course of the last two years.

Here’s a look into the numbers and analytics for the impacts of the four Texas Exes that are competing in some regard for one of the two teams in Super Bowl LIV in Miami between the Chiefs and 49ers.