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49ers' Super Bowl roster littered with ex-Detroit Lions: Why they've found success there

Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Cory Undlin speaks to the media on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Senior Bowl preparation in Mobile, Alabama. Detroit Free Press

MIAMI — A few months after they beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL at Ford Field, six Pittsburgh Steelers posed together for a picture at the ceremony in which they received their championship rings.

Charlie Batch, Jeff Hartings, Barrett Brooks, Travis Kirschke, Clint Kriewaldt and Chidi Iwuoma were all ex-Lions who found their way to the top of the football world after being discarded in Detroit.

Fourteen years later, another group of ex-Lions are closing in on a Kodak moment of their own.