Super Bowl LVII: Biggest gamers on the Eagles and Chiefs

We just missed out on having an avid Super Smash Bros. player, Joe Burrow, compete in the Super Bowl this weekend. The NFL player whose love of Call of Duty is infamous and who calls this weekend’s Super Bowl site in Arizona his home stadium also won’t be competing in the big game. However, both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs have players who are known for their love of gaming too. Last October, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes let the world know how excited he and a few of his teammates were about the release of the latest Call of Duty game. Mahomes isn’t on this list, but here are five players competing in the Super Bowl this weekend who are big gamers.

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Boston Scott

Philadelphia Eagles running back

Boston Scott is the only player on these teams who is signed by an esports organization. Last year, Scott got signed by Dignitas as a content creator. “DIG B0ston” as he goes by on Twitter is an avid Rocket League player who frequently tweets out his thoughts on what’s going on in the Rocket League Championship Series. In the lead up to the Super Bowl this week, he’s one of three players who received custom decals that Rocket League players can add to their in-game cars. Of course, he also was a participant in the NFL’s Tuesday Night Gaming series this season.

JuJu Smith-Schuster

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver

JuJu first gained attention as a gamer when he was part of the famous Fortnite stream involving Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Drake and Travis Scott in 2018. JuJu began collaborating with esports and gaming organization FaZe Clan that same year, and in 2020, he launched his own gaming org, Team Diverge. In 2021, JuJu became a brand ambassador for Nerd Street, and last year he hosted a camp at Nerd Street’s Localhost gaming venue in Fullerton. Lately he’s been playing a lot of Call of Duty: Warzone with his Chiefs teammates, and even credited the game with helping build chemistry among them.

Mecole Hardman

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver

Mecole Hardman tweeted out last summer that he wanted to stream more on his Twitch channel, where he has streamed Call of Duty: Warzone. When Patrick Mahomes tweeted out last year that he and some of his teammates would be playing Call of Duty during a bye week, Hardman was one of the players he tagged. Like Boston Scott, he received a custom Rocket League decal ahead of the Super Bowl. Hardman also has represented the Pioneers, an esports organization based in Kansas City, and participated in the NFL’s Tuesday Night Gaming series this season.

Marquez Valdes-Scantling

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver

MVS claims in his Twitter bio to be undefeated in NBA Street Volume II, so you know he takes his gaming seriously. He was among the group of Chiefs offensive players whom Patrick Mahomes tagged on Twitter saying they would all be playing Call of Duty together. According to ChiefsWire, Mahomes said “Marquez and Juju are really good.”

CJ Gardner-Johnson

Philadelphia Eagles safety

Last month, CJ tweeted out that he was looking for someone to build him a gaming PC, so we know how he’ll probably be spending most of his time after the Super Bowl. CJ might not be as well-known a gamer as the Chiefs Warzone crew or his Rocket League-playing teammate Boston Scott, but he is very much immersed in the gaming community. He founded an esports and gaming organization called 2X Global last year, has a Twitch channel, and based on clips he posts to social media, he plays a lot of Madden and Grand Theft Auto V.

Lead photo credit: JuJu Smith-Schuster via Twitter