The 2025 season could be another record-breaker for quarterbacks from the SEC, with 35 who played in the conference on NFL rosters for the first full week of the preseason schedule.

In 2024, 10 quarterbacks who played in the SEC started at least half of their team’s games. Before last season, the record for the most SEC players who started at least half of their NFL team’s games in one season was nine, which occurred in 2022 and 2023.

The 2024 NFL No. 1 QBs with SEC experience included:

LSU’s Joe Burrow, Cincinnati BengalsLSU’s Jayden Daniels, Washington CommandersAlabama’s Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia EaglesKentucky’s Will Levis, Tennessee TitansTexas A&M’s Kyler Murray, Arizona CardinalsAuburn’s Bo Nix, Denver BroncosFlorida’s Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis ColtsGeorgia’s Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles RamsAlabama’s Tua Tagovailoa, Miami DolphinsAlabama’s Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers

Levis won’t be the Titans’ starter in 2025. He’s already on injured reserve.

But Dak Prescott from Mississippi State will resume his starting spot with the Dallas Cowboys after injuries limited him to eight games in 2024, and Georgia’s Justin Fields is the expected starter for the New York Jets after he started six games for the Pittsburgh Steelers last season.

Richardson is in competition for his starting spot with Daniel Jones in Indianapolis, and South Carolina’s Spencer Rattler, who started six games last season, is vying for the full-time spot with the New Orleans Saints.

The record-equaling nine starters of 2023 has an asterisk for a 10th quarterback: Tennessee’s Joshua Dobbs started eight games for the Arizona Cardinals before Murray returned from an injury. Dobbs was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, and he started four more games, giving him 12 starts in 2023.

In 2024, nine quarterbacks who played in the SEC made between one start and eight starts in the NFL, giving the conference 19 QBs with at least one start last season.

The former SEC quarterbacks on NFL rosters this year include:

ALABAMA

Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles (entered the NFL from Oklahoma)Mac Jones, San Francisco 49ersJalen Milroe, Seattle SeahawksTua Tagovailoa, Miami DolphinsBryce Young, Carolina Panthers

ARKANSAS

Brandon Allen, Tennessee Titans

AUBURN

Bo Nix, Denver Broncos (entered the NFL from Oregon)Jarrett Stidham, Denver BroncosPayton Thorne, Cincinnati BengalsMalik Willis, Green Bay Packers (entered the NFL from Liberty)

FLORIDA

Jacoby Brissett, Arizona Cardinals (entered the NFL from North Carolina State)Will Grier, Dallas Cowboys (entered the NFL from West Virginia)Emory Jones, Atlanta Falcons (entered the NFL from Cincinnati)Graham Mertz, Houston TexansAnthony Richardson, Indianapolis ColtsKyle Trask, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

GEORGIA

Stetson Bennett, Los Angeles RamsJustin Fields, New York Jets (entered the NFL from Ohio State)Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams

KENTUCKY

Devin Leary, Baltimore RavensWill Levis, Tennessee Titans

LSU

Joe Burrow, Cincinnati BengalsJayden Daniels, Washington Commanders

MISSISSIPPI STATE

Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys

MISSOURI

Connor Bazelak, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (entered the NFL from Bowling Green)Brady Cook, New York JetsDrew Lock, Seattle Seahawks

OLE MISS

Jaxson Dart, New York Giants

SOUTH CAROLINA

Spencer Rattler, New Orleans Saints

TENNESSEE

Joshua Dobbs, New England PatriotsHendon Hooker, Detroit LionsJoe Milton III, Dallas Cowboys

TEXAS

Quinn Ewers, Miami Dolphins

TEXAS A&M

Kyle Allen, Detroit Lions (entered the NFL from Houston)Kyler Murray, Arizona Cardinals (entered the NFL from Oklahoma)

Ewers entered the NFL as a seventh-round draft pick of the Dolphins on April 26. With Texas and Oklahoma having entered the SEC in 2024, he’s the first from those schools to go from the conference to the NFL.

But those programs have nine other quarterbacks on NFL rosters.

The other Texas quarterbacks are Shane Buechele (who entered the NFL from SMU) of the Buffalo Bills and Sam Ehlinger of the Denver Broncos.

The Oklahoma quarterbacks include Hurts, Murray, Rattler (who entered the NFL from South Carolina), Dillon Gabriel (who entered the NFL from Oregon) with the Cleveland Browns, Baker Mayfield with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tanner Mordecai (who entered the NFL from Wisconsin) with the San Francisco 49ers and Caleb Williams (who entered the NFL from Southern Cal) with the Chicago Bears.

Hurts, Murray, Mayfield and Williams are expected to be starters in 2025.

NFL teams have 118 quarterbacks on their rosters. One team has five, 20 teams have four apiece and 11 have three each.

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

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