Super Bowl 2022: Which Bengals and Rams NFL Players Are From North Carolina?

NORTH CAROLINA — You may see some familiar names on the team rosters when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals square off in Super Bowl LVI, the biggest game of the NFL season which will be played at 5:30 p.m. Central on Sunday in SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

One player on the Los Angeles Rams and five on the Cincinnati Bengals have ties to North Carolina based on our count.

On the Bengals, Jessie Bates attended Wake Forest, Akeem Davis-Gaither attended App State, B.J. Hill and Germaine Pratt attended NC State, and D'Ante Smith attended East Carolina University.

On the Rams, just John Wolford attended Wake Forest.

Between the two teams, the 2022 Super Bowl rosters have 107 former college football players, according to the NCAA.

Together, the SEC and Big Ten are sending the most players to the game, with 46 players. NCAA Division I FCS and Division II schools are also represented.

According to the NCAA, Florida and LSU have the greatest representation in the 56th annual Super Bowl, with five each.

Washington, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson and Oklahoma each have four players on the teams' Super Bowl rosters.

Alabama, Texas A&M and Purdue have three representatives each.

And two players each come from Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Maryland, Florida Atlantic, Delaware, Cincinnati, Florida State, Iowa, Penn State, TCU, Utah, Wisconsin, Stanford, Colorado and North Carolina State.