It might have taken 12 years as pro, multiple teams and a trade earlier this season, but DeAndre “Nuk” Hopkins will be suiting up Sunday for the Kansas City Chiefs with a chance to become a Super Bowl champion. The three-time first-team NFL All-Pro and Clemson great is finally on football’s greatest stage.

Both parts of that statement changed this season. After Hopkins got traded to the Kansas City Chiefs and finally experienced some winning — he was a part of two playoff wins in his first 11 seasons then doubled that total with the Chiefs last month — it came as he was practically a ghost in the offense.

DeAndre Hopkins can finally put on the mink. When the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver was just five months old, his father died in a car crash, leaving him and his three siblings to be raised by his mother.