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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State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Thru 2023 Season)
Here’s the all-time list of quarterbacks who have started at least one game in the NFL updated through the 2023 season. This list may have more big updates after 2024. FOR A GOLD CLUB COMPANION COLUMN TO THIS LIST WRITTEN WHEN IT WAS FIRST COMPILED IN 2018 THAT GOES OVER MANY OF THE TOP YEARS...
State’s All-Time NFL 1st Rd Draft Picks
After this year’s 2022 NFL Draft, we have updated this all-time list. It might surprise some that the NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and there were a lot of early years in which there were only 13 picks in the first round. We still have the highest players selected from a California...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 2)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three more of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF San Diego Section, CIF Central Coast Section...
Starting NFL QBs: More To Know
As a companion Gold Club special column for this week’s updated release of our massive list containing the name of every quarterback from a California high school who has started a game in the NFL since 1945 (and everyone from the AFL before the merger), we go over those schools with more than one, the...
Pac-12’s “12 Greatest” from Calif.
Later this summer, the Pac-12 Networks will introduce a new series “The 12 Greatest” in which one football player from each of the conference’s 12 schools will be crowned as the greatest player from that school’s history. Here’s a look at each university’s top candidates who are from California high schools and who have been […]