It’s shaping up to be a big week for DeVone Claybrooks.

For starters, Thursday is his mother’s birthday and the Stampeders’ new defensive coordinator will be in his native Virginia to help her celebrate.

Then, the very next day, Claybrooks will be attending a very special ceremony at his alma mater — Bassett High School in Martinsville, Va.

“The NFL gave every player who won the Super Bowl a gold football to commemorate the 50th Super Bowl,” explains Claybrooks, “and they gave their high school one as well. The high school also receives a grant on behalf of the NFL.

“So the school is presenting my gold football to me, which is pretty cool.”

A defensive lineman during his career on both sides of the border, Claybrooks was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad that won Super Bowl XXXVII against the Oakland Raiders.

Even with generous size of football rosters and a half-century of championship games in the books, less than 2,000 men can say they were an active player on a Super Bowl winner.

He’s looking forward to the ceremony.

“There’s going to be an assembly,” he explains. “I don’t know why all the kids get out of school for a ball presentation that’s going to last five minutes, but they’re all excited about it. It’s fun and it’s a good thing to be able to get back and do it and be recognized for an accomplishment and to help my school. It’s an impoverished area where I grew up.”

Claybrooks takes the time to drop by his old school whenever he can.

“I’ve stayed in contact with a few of the coaches and the assistant principal there,” he says. “Some of the buddies I went to high school with are coaching now.”

As a pro, Claybrooks played at 300-pounds plus and had a knack of celebrating sacks by rubbing his ample belly. It was a different story during his days as a Bassett Bengal, however.

“I weighed 205 pounds,” he says with a smile. “I was a running back. Also a linebacker-slash-defensive end. I led league in receptions my season year.”

To the best of his knowledge, he’s the only alum of his high school to go and win a Super Bowl ring.

Every year when the big game rolls around, Claybrooks — as if he could ever forget — gets reminded about his moment of Super Bowl glory. This year, it came in the form of Twitter notifications when Stamps quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell posted a short video clip of Claybrooks on the sidelines during the Super Bowl telecast. In the tweet, Mitchell referred to “DeVone Claybrooks Country,” a play on the “Who is that bad man?” commercial starring Macklemore and Russell Wilson.

“So Bo tweeted the video and then Charleston (Hughes) and (Shawn) Lemon commented on it,” says Claybrooks with a shake of the head. “Oh well, what do you expect when Bo looks like Macklemore so much?

“But every year at Super Bowl time, I get asked about it and it’s always great to think about that day and what we accomplished.”

@6BONECRUSHER3 @StampMachine @leftystamps Super Bowl Raiders Vs Bucs … This is Devon Claybrooks Country pic.twitter.com/mPvE6sIBIO

— Bo Levi Mitchell (@BoLeviMitchell) January 31, 2016