Of the five former Alabama players who have scored more than two NFL postseason touchdowns, none did what Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs has done this month. The former Crimson Tide ball-carrier scored a touchdown in each of his first two playoff games.

Gibbs would like to make it three in a row when the Lions square off against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday.

Gibbs scored on a 10-yard run on the first postseason carry of his career in a 24-23 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Jan. 14 that was Detroit’s first playoff win in 32 years.

Gibbs scored on a 31-yard run in the Lions’ 31-23 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Jan. 21. He became the youngest player in NFL history to score a go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter or later of a postseason game.

“I don’t know if you can contain him,” San Francisco defensive coordinator Steve Wilks said. “We got to do a great job swarming the ball. He’s phenomenal. He’s four-three on paper; he’s four-three on tape. He plays to that speed. Again, they do a great job getting him out in space, trying to create one-on-ones with the backers, great job on third down, and he can run in between the tackles and he’s most explosive taking the ball outside. So definitely someone we got to definitely rally to. And as I said before to the defense, we got to swarm tackle this Sunday in order to stop this run game.”

The 12th player picked in the NFL Draft on April 27, Gibbs ran for 945 yards and 10 touchdowns on 182 carries and caught 52 passes for 316 yards and one touchdown in 15 regular-season games. The Pro Football Writers of America put Gibbs on its All-Rookie team.

In the postseason, Gibbs has 99 yards and two touchdowns on 17 rushing attempts and 83 yards on eight receptions.

“He has performed at a high level,” Lions running-backs coach Scottie Montgomery said, “and I think he’ll continue to do that as long as he understands that it’s more about the next-play mentality than worried about the last play.”

The Lions and 49ers will meet at 5:30 p.m. CST Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for the NFC’s spot in Super Bowl LVIII. FOX will televise Sunday’s game.

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Detroit has never played in the Super Bowl and, in the 54 seasons of the NFL’s AFC-NFC era, has reached the NFC Championship Game only once previously. The Lions lost to the Washington Redskins 41-10 on Jan. 12, 1992, in their only other appearance in the conference-championship game.

“A lot of people never thought we could do it,” Gibbs said, “so it means a lot to the city and the team that we’re doing something like this, especially at this program. It hasn’t been done before in a while. …

“I think we can compete with anybody. We have a lot of good players on the team. They have a lot of good players, so it just comes down to execution.”

The five former Alabama players who have more NFL postseason touchdowns than Gibbs are Shaun Alexander with eight, Julio Jones with seven, Jalen Hurts and Tony Nathan with five apiece and Derrick Henry with four.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.