Former Casper and UW Football Player Logan Wilson To Play In Super Bowl 56

He’s a 2015 Natrona County High School Grad, a member of the Univ. of Wyoming Cowboy Football team from 2015 to 2019, a current Cincinnati Bengal for two years, and now he’s getting ready to play in his first Super Bowl.

Linebacker Logan Wilson (number 55) was a 3rd round pick in 2020, and this season he has led the Bengals in both interceptions with 4 of them, and in tackles with 98.

His father is Trevor Wilson who is the assistant commissioner of the Wyoming High School Activities Association.

He says it was much tougher for Logan to adjust from high school to college than it was from college to the pros.

“He had to change his diet basically and had to gain some weight, get stronger, bigger, faster and all of those things. Transition to the professional level he didn’t have to change any of that. Obviously he had to adjust to the level of competition, the speed and the strength of those folks is a lot higher.”

Cincinnati is 0-and-2 lifetime in the Superbowl, losing in Super Bowl 16 in 1982 and in Super Bowl 23 in 1989.

Both of those losses were against Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers.

Aside from playing games for the Cincinnati Bengals, Logan Wilson has played games in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore, New York, Las Vegas and Denver to name a few other big cities.

Trevor says Logan gets ribbed from time to time from his team-mates and other players about being from Wyoming, but he doesn’t forget where he came from.

“He’s a pretty humble kid and I guess we’re lucky that way, that we try to raise him right and he’s stuck to his roots, he’s a Wyoming kid, he stays humble and maybe a lot of it is luck, but he’s doing a great job at staying humble. You watch some of his interviews, he still talks about being from Wyoming and he likes it, he just goes with it. He is not afraid to tell everyone that asks that he’s from Wyoming and he’s proud to be from Wyoming. Whether they give him grief or not, he could care less. It’s all in good fun and he doesn’t worry about that stuff.”

During his senior year in high school, Logan was second in Class 4A with 6 INT’s.

As a Wyoming Cowboy he had 421 tackles, which is 4th in Mountain West Conference football history.

Trevor says his son, as well as most of the defensive unit for the Bengals, have matured and played smarter over the course of this season, compared to the previous season.

“The fact that he’s got the communication with the defensive coordinator on his headset and he’s calling the schemes and whatever defense they are running is pretty cool. He’s embraced that and he’s learned a lot. He has to study just like anything else but the difference between year 1 and year 2 is now they’re just playing faster because they know what to expect. They don’t have to think about where they’re supposed to be.” 

During Logan’s high school days at Natrona, the Mustangs went 5-0 vs. the Sheridan Broncs, including the playoffs.

He heard his name called in the 2020 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals.

Now, almost two years later, he’ll play in Super Bowl 56 as the Bengals take on the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, February 13 (4:30pm kick-off).

Trevor says his son, like many other draftees, may have had certain teams he would’ve preferred to have played for.

Looking back at the 2020 draft and comparing it to now, getting a call from Cincinnati may have been a blessing in disguise.

“Number 1, you are just grateful and thankful that you get drafted, period. Now were the Bengals at the top of his list? Probably not. They haven’t had a successful season for quite some time, but I guess you could see that, that class that they drafted, you have Burrow and Higgins ahead of Logan, and so you don’t really know how could Joe Burrow is, but now I think we kind of know that it wasn’t a bad draft class, but the Bengals weren’t at the top of his list, but I think he’s very thankful that he’s there right now.”

Although the game is being played in Los Angeles, Cincinnati is the designated home team for the game, because the AFC and NFC rotate that designation each year.

There is another connection between the Super Bowl and the Wyoming Cowboy Football Team.

Tyler Hall, who played for UW with Logan Wilson from 2016 to 2019, played in 3 games for the LA Rams this season.

He is currently listed as a member of the teams’ practice squad, thus he will not play in this Sunday’s game.