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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All-Time All-State Small Schools Team (Offense)
It’s taken a few weeks of research in between all of the usual weekly features we do, but we’re ready to go with an expanded version of our All-Time All-State Small Schools Football Teams. This is a celebration of all of those small schools everywhere from Weed and Ferndale to the north and to those...
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 […]
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 […]
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were three starting quarterbacks from California high schools among the four that started in last week’s AFC and NFC championship games and it was another strong season for the state in the league in general. The most remarkable story among all of them, of course, was the return of Helix of La Mesa grad...
All-Time All-State Small Schools Teams
Inspired by the phenomenal success this season of Firebaugh’s Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills, we’ve come up with an all-time all-state small schools football team. It’s been done based on what’s happened by players after high school and it’s filled with many more stories of those who were under-recruited and mostly unknown in high...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (Updated)
There were nine quarterbacks from California high schools who started at least once in the NFL during the 2019 season. Our favorite for 2019 might not be obvious, but just loved it when Matt Moore went from being semi-retired and helping coach at alma-mater Hart of Newhall to filling in as the starter for two […]
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...
Super Six For State In NFL Draft
It’s not a record, but the six players selected in Thursday’s first round of the 2018 NFL Draft is the most from California high schools since 1997. Five of the six also went in the first 15 picks, which also caused a look into the draft history books. The only downer was that none of […]
