The Kansas City Chiefs’ running back Isiah Pacheco has achieved a lot since entering the league as the 251st pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

He immediately endeared himself to fans during his introductory press conference, when he declared he was ready to compete and “take another grown man’s job.”

Since then, Pacheco has been a key player on Kansas City teams that have won three straight AFC Championships and two Super Bowls.

He also won the Chiefs’ 2022 Mack Lee Hill Award (given to the team’s top rookie) and was nominated for the venerated Angry Runs Scepter awarded by Good Morning Football’s Kyle Brandt each week during the season.

Not too shabby for a seventh-round draft pick, is it?

Now he’s added another feather to his cap (or should I say tassel?) by returning to his alma mater, Rutgers University, where he was a criminal justice major before entering the league. He walked across the school’s graduation stage this week.

The Scarlet Knights football account posted the news on X.com Tuesday evening.

If you look closely, you can see Pacheco is wearing his Super Bowl rings to the event.

I can’t blame him. If I had a Super Bowl ring, I’d wear the darn thing to the supermarket. Heck, I’d wear it in the shower and as I slept. To get it off my hand, you’d have to cut it off my finger!

NFL players often wait until their careers have ended before finishing their degrees. Pacheco’s choice to do it now says something about his drive and desire for success. He now enters a 2025 season in which the Chiefs are expected to continue using him as their primary ball carrier.