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Kamu Grugier-Hill Super Bowl Interview With KHON In Hawai'i

Former Eastern Illinois linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill will try to become the fifth different former Panther to win a Super Bowl ring as either a head coach or a player when the Philadelphia Eagles face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII this Sunday in Minnesota. 
 
Grugier-Hill is in his second season as a member of the Eagles team and has a been a special teams standout for the team.  This season Grugier-Hill has 22 tackles with one forced fumble.  During the Eagles Sunday Night Football Game at Dallas in late November, Grugier-Hill was put in the national spotlight as he filled in as the emergency kicker for the Eagles after an injury to the starter after the opening kickoff.
 
Grugier-Hill was a two-time first team All-Ohio Valley Conference linebacker at EIU and was drafted in the sixth round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots.  He was waived by the Patriots following the NFL preseason and signed with the Eagles.
 
Last season former EIU quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo won his second Super Bowl ring with the New England Patriots as the back-up quarterback.  Former offensive lineman Ted Petersen won a pair of Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers back in the late 1970's.  EIU has had two former Panthers win Super Bowls as head coaches.   Sean Payton lead the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl victory and Mike Shanahan has a pair of Super Bowl Championship rings as the head coach of the Denver Broncos
 
Entering this weekend former EIU players are 7-0 in Super Bowl games as either head coaches or players.
 
In addition to Grugier-Hill playing for the Eagles in the Super Bowl, two former EIU assistant coaches will be on the opposite sideline as members of the New England Patriots staff.  DeMarcus Covington (2016 EIU assistant) is currently a coaching assistant with the Patriots while Nick Caley (2012 EIU assistant) is the New England tight end coach.