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In all, 15 players at the Super Bowl have ties to Texas. Twelve went to high school in Texas, and eight played college football in the state. Six played both high school and college football here. More than a dozen NFL athletes competing in this year's Super Bowl have ties to Texas. This year, the Kansas City Chiefs (15-2) are taking on the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) in a rematch of Super The Eagles, who won the Super Bowl five years ago with a different coach and quarterback (Nick Foles, also from Texas), will try to do it again behind the formidable duo of Hurts and coach Nick Sirianni. Meanwhile, Mahomes will look to earn his second Super Bowl championship after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in 2019. That really surprised me. But Texas has nine and we had this long stretch where we didn’t have a Texas high school quarterback drafted in the first round and where they weren’t playing in Super Bowls until we got Vince Young drafted in the first round and Drew Brees playing in a Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl early in the 2000s. Mahomes is already a 3-time Super Bowl champion, 3-time Super Bowl MVP and 2-time NFL MVP. Eagles quarterback and Houston-area native Jalen Hurts will look to add Super Bowl champion to his This is also the first time two Black quarterbacks have faced off against each other in the Super Bowl. Shane Buechele, who threw passes at both SMU and Texas, is listed as the third quarterback Whitehouse’s Patrick Mahomes and Channelview’s Jalen Hurts were also the top vote-getters in the league MVP race. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is arguably the most notable player from Texas appearing in Super Bowl LVIII.Mahomes grew up in East Texas before spending three years at Texas Tech. According to FOX 26 Houston, this year's Super Bowl matchup between Mahomes and Hurts will mark the first time that two former Texas high school football players will get the start at quarterback QB - Patrick Mahomes - Mahomes was born in Tyler and played high school football at Whitehouse. He also had an incredible run as the quarterback at Texas Tech University (93 TDs in 32 games). QB When the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles square off Sunday in New Orleans, starting quarterbacks from the same state will be going head-to-head for the fifth time in Super Bowl history. The most recent Super Bowl-winning quarterback from Texas is Matthew Stafford, who played in the Dallas enclave of Highland Park before going to Georgia and getting drafted No. 1 overall by Elway and the Broncos were beaten up again in Super Bowl XII by another NFC East team; this time, it was MVP Doug Williams and his Washington teammates smashing Denver 42-10 to get on the list of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. Williams was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl. That really surprised me. But Texas has nine and we had this long stretch where we didn’t have a Texas high school quarterback drafted in the first round and where they weren’t playing in Super Bowls until we got Vince Young drafted in the first round and Drew Brees playing in a Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl early in the 2000s. Fellow quarterback Bart Starr also won nine-consecutive postseason games during his Hall of Fame career from 1961-68. Texas Tech will be represented by three Red Raiders in Super Bowl LIX as Kansas City also boasts rookie tight end Baylor Cupp on its practice squad, while former offensive lineman Le'Raven Clark is a member of the Eagles. 2 Texas HS Quarterbacks meet in the Super Bowl Patrick Mahomes @WhitehouseISD Sr Year: Pass 4619 Yds, 50 Tds Run 948 Yds, 15 Tds Baseball: Threw 16 K No-Hitter Jalen Hurts @ChannelviewISD Sr Year: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, right, and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts speak to the media during the NFL football Super Bowl 57 opening night, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 Using Pro Football Reference's database of quarterbacks, we sorted through the 721 quarterbacks who made their debuts during the Super Bowl era (since 1966). We assigned where a quarterback "came The star quarterback credits his success in part to the support from his family. As the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, all eyes are on Jalen Hurts has held a press conference every day this week in the build-up to the Super Bowl and the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has somehow managed to keep his name out of the headlines.Doug
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