Davenport Native And Super Bowl Champ Re-Signs With LA Rams

It's always exciting when someone from your hometown does something cool. Quad City native, Jake Gervase first signed with the LA Rams in 2019 and experienced his first Superbowl win in February of 2022. Now the news has spread that Gervase will be playing with the Rams once again.

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About Jake Gervase

Jake Gervase was born in Davenport in 1995 and is currently playing as a Safety for the Los Angeles Rams. Here is his Twitter if you would like to follow him:

Gervase graduated from Assumption High School in 2014, before going on to play for the University of Iowa. He finished his college career with a total of 153 tackles and seven interceptions over the course of the 44 games he played.

In 2019, after five seasons with the Hawkeyes, Gervase signed on with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent. After some time, he moved to the team's practice squad, being raised to the team's active roster when needed.

On January 12th, 2022, he signed on to the active roster, playing in multiple games at the end of the season.

Jake played in the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers on January 30th, when the team secured their position in Super Bowl LVI.

Super Bowl LVI took place on February 13th, 2022. The matchup ended in a win for the Los Angeles Rams (23) against the Cincinnati Bengals (20).

NBC Sports says, "Gervase played in two regular-season games as a rookie, one game in 2020, and two more last season before appearing in all four of the team’s postseason games. All of his snaps the last two years have come on special teams and he has been credited with two tackles."

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