Isiah Pacheco may be known for his angry runs, but ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs running back is much more than that.<\/p>\n
He was, in fact, Mr. Vineland 2018.<\/p>\n
Rewind six years ago to when Pacheco was a senior at Vineland High School (Vineland, New Jersey). Before he was an NFL draft pick and even before he was an All-Big Ten running back at Rutgers<\/a>, Pacheco was a high school legend.<\/p>\n His famous dreads weren’t grown out yet but his smile, so unique and affable, was present even back then. During a time when most are enduring the throws of awkward adolescence, Pacheco was seemingly calm and confident.<\/p>\n Despite being already enrolled at Rutgers, Pacheco was voted Mr. Vineland 2018. The award (back then) was decided simply<\/a>:<\/p>\n “The 12 contestants were selected by female members of the senior class from more than two dozen applicants.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pacheco, apparently also known as ‘Mr. March’…was selected as the winner. He received “a crown, trophy and the right to wear the Mr. Vineland sash.”<\/p>\n Now, he has Taylor Swift (yes, the<\/strong> Taylor Swift) celebrating his touchdowns for the Chiefs by flashing his jersey number.<\/a> Was Taylor Swift celebrating a Pacheco touchdown run on anyone’s bingo card for this year?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr #Vineland<\/a> 2018 Isiah Pacheco is crowned. @VHSCO18<\/a> @2020vhs<\/a> @VHS2021<\/a> @vhsclass0f2019<\/a> @DJPlaymakers<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/0cf3zjvNbO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Deborah Marko (@dmarko_dj) January 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Perhaps that crown is sitting next to his Super Bowl ring from last season?<\/p>\n Pacheco is coming off a very strong second season with the Chiefs, rushing for 935 yards and seven touchdowns<\/a>. He has a rushing touchdown in all three of the Chiefs’ playoff games this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last year in the Super Bowl, he scored a second-quarter touchdown to help kickstart the Chiefs’ comeback over the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isiah Pacheco was the man in high school.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366516,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366514\/revisions\/366516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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