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State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (2025)

Here’s our yearly update of our all-time list of quarterbacks who have started at least one game in the NFL updated through the 2025 season and including projected starters for the final NFL regular season games of this year. We have no new starters, but 11 from the state who had at least one start,...

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All-Time State Player Rankings (QBs)

After an NFL playoff weekend earlier this month in which California QBs went 4-0, we thought we’d update our all-time state player rankings for the quarterbacks. These rankings are based strictly on how players have done after high school and not on what they did during high school. The No. 1 spot is the GOAT...

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NFL Starting QBs Quiz

As this year’s NFL season kicks off this weekend, there’s one former California high school QB missing as a starter for the first time since 2001. There are three new ones, however, beginning this season with rookies Bryce Young (Panthers) and C.J. Stroud (Texans) plus Jordan Love getting his shot in Green Bay. Two others […]

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Big Changes For State’s NFL QB List

With the retirement of the GOAT Tom Brady, one might think that California’s group of quarterbacks starting in the NFL will be greatly diminished. It will be because of just him, but the number of starters will be up by two and two other QBs from the state will be playing for new teams. The […]

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State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)

One day after longtime NFL QB and Oakland Tech grad Josh Johnson made a start for the Baltimore Ravens, Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills grad Ian Book is making his first-ever NFL start for the New Orleans Saints. Earlier this year, Bakersfield Liberty’s Jordan Love made his first for the Green Bay Packers. Here’s...

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All-Time All-State Medium FB Teams

Several days after doing a feature on the all-time all-state small schools football teams, we are following up with the best-ever grads from California’s medium-sized schools. With Firebaugh’s Josh Allen playing in the AFC title game on Sunday, the medium schools group is led by another NFL QB still playing this week — probable league...

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NFL Season-Opening Alumni Honor Roll

Long Beach Poly leads the state with five players on NFL 53-man opening rosters with a sixth on injured reserve. No other school has four, but several have three. We have as complete of a list as possible, given the fluid nature of rosters being altered up until the last minute due to late player...

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All-Time State Super Bowl Alums

Thanks to the archives of the Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac, here are lists of the state’s Super Bowl alums for every year from 1967 to 2026. Long Beach Poly has now moved to first in the state with eight players in the games. There are two schools in California that have had...

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State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)

There ended up being 12 quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL last season. We lost one to a horrific leg injury — La Mesa Helix grad Alex Smith of the Washington Redskins — and one of those who started last year has since retired. We don’t know why […]

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Starting NFL QBs: All-Time State List

With three rookie QBs in the NFL this season from California high schools who have all been starting games, we got inspired to see if a total of eight for one season could be put into historical perspective. So we went overboard and have compiled a list of every single starter from California going back […]

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