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49ers mailbag: Who could be Super Bowl’s unsung hero?

SANTA CLARA — Six months ago on the shores of Lake Tahoe, I checked the 49ers’ Super Bowl odds, and they had fallen from a 50-to-1 opening line to 22-to-1 at Caesars.

Once the 49ers secured a Super Bowl LIV spot Sunday, they were installed as 1 1/2-point underdogs to the Kansas City Chiefs. Two teams left. Lot of odds overcome. And now a jam-packed mailbag to answer via my Instagram and Twitter booths:

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Who is a potential unsung hero in the Super Bowl? (@givo_the_illest)

Super Bowl history is steeped in unsung heroes, starting with the Packers’ Max McGee in Super Bowl I.