Two-time champion vows to take next team to Super Bowl

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Two-time champion vows to take his next team to Super Bowl amid free agency

By Jaren Kawada | Last updated Aug 12, 2024 12:30 PM ET

Jason Pierre-Paul just wants another chance.

Throughout his 14-year NFL career, Pierre-Paul has become one of the best defensive ends in the modern era but is currently without a team with less than a month remaining until the 2024 season.

As he finds himself desperate to continue his late-career run, "JPP" sent out a public notice on X on Monday declaring that the next team he signs with will end up in Super Bowl LIX.

I know I’m a free agent, but mark my words: whatever team I end up on, we're going to the Super Bowl, and that I do know, my
spider senses tell me YES!! Watch me cook.
— Jason Pierre-Paul (@UDWJPP) August 11, 2024

The 35-year-old began the 2023 season as a member of the New Orleans Saints but was released after appearing in just one game. He managed to sign an in-season deal with Miami later in the year but played in just two more games before being cut for a second time. Overall, the veteran took the field just three times in his 14th professional season and recorded two tackles, both with New Orleans.

Pierre-Paul began his career with the New York Giants as the No. 15 overall pick of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was named as a first-team All-Pro in 2011, the same season that the Giants took home the Vince Lombardi Trophy from winning Super Bowl XLVI. In that game, Pierre-Paul recorded two tackles, one quarterback hurry and two passes defensed.

Although he would not make another Pro Bowl team with New York after the 2012 season, the pass-rush specialist would remain a key piece of the team's defense until he infamously lost a finger on his right hand from a fireworks accident on Independence Day in 2015.

After eight years in New York, Pierre-Paul was traded to Tampa Bay in 2018. He would remain with his second team for four years, during which he won another Super Bowl as a member of the Tom Brady-led 2020 team.

He would not be re-signed by the Buccaneers after the 2021 season and has since bounced around the league looking for his next opportunity.

Jaren Kawada

Jaren Kawada is a sports writer based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. Kawada has over five years of experience with his work also seen on Fantasy CPR, BetSided and Sportskeeda. Kawada is an alumnus of Butler University and in his free time enjoys training in kickboxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

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