At the end of the 2019 season, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones had 12,125 receiving yards – more than any other player in NFL history in his first nine seasons.

If the former Foley High School star had retained that rate over the past three seasons, he would have more NFL receiving yards than any other player from an Alabama high school now.

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But injuries have caused Jones to miss seven games in each of the past three seasons – each played with a different team – and he’s added 1,504 receiving yards to his career total, leaving Benjamin Russell alumnus Terrell Owens still at the top of the Alabama high school list by 2,305 receiving yards.

During the 2022 NFL regular season, 13 players from Alabama high schools had 282 receptions for 3,384 yards and 21 touchdowns. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, a rookie from Hoover High School, topped the 2022 list with 52 receptions for 801 yards and four touchdowns.

Eight players from Alabama high schools have produced 26 1,000-yard seasons — Owens with nine, Jones with seven, John Stallworth with three, Harlon Hill and Ozzie Newsome with two apiece and Jerricho Cotchery, Darnell Mooney and Red Phillips with one each.

Owens became the former Alabama high school player with the most NFL receiving yards in 2004, when he passed Stallworth. Stallworth had replaced Newsome, who had supplanted Phillips, who had replaced Hill, who played his final NFL game on Oct. 28, 1962.

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The 10 players from Alabama high schools with the most NFL receiving yards are:

1. Terrell Owens: 15,934 receiving yards

San Francisco 49ers 1996-2003, Philadelphia Eagles 2004-05, Dallas Cowboys 2006-08, Buffalo Bills 2009, Cincinnati Bengals 2010: The former Benjamin Russell High School standout caught 1,078 passes, averaged 14.8 yards per reception and scored 153 receiving touchdowns during his career. In addition to ranking third in NFL history in receiving yards, Owens also ranks eighth in receptions and third in touchdown catches. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

2. Julio Jones: 13,629 receiving yards

Atlanta Falcons 2011-20, Tennessee Titans 2021, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2022: The former Foley High School and Alabama standout has caught 903 passes, averaged 15.1 yards per reception and scored 63 receiving touchdowns during his career. Jones had 24 receptions for 299 yards and two touchdowns in the 2022 season.

3. John Stallworth: 8,723 receiving yards

Pittsburgh Steelers 1974-87: The former Tuscaloosa High School and Alabama A&M standout caught 537 passes, averaged 16.2 yards per reception and scored 63 receiving touchdowns during his career. Stallworth played on four Super Bowl-winning teams and caught 11 passes for 268 yards and three touchdowns in those NFL championship games. Stallworth was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

4. Ozzie Newsome: 7,980 receiving yards

Cleveland Browns 1978-90: The former Colbert County High School and Alabama standout caught 662 passes, averaged 12.1 yards per reception and scored 47 receiving touchdowns during his career. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 1999, Newsome is the Browns’ franchise leader in receptions and receiving yards.

5. Jerricho Cotchery: 6,623 receiving yards

New York Jets 2004-10, Pittsburgh Steelers 2011-13, Carolina Panthers 2014-15: The former Phillips High School standout caught 524 passes, averaged 12.6 yards per reception and scored 34 receiving touchdowns during his career. Cotchery had 1,130 receiving yards in 2007 for his top season.

6. Red Phillips: 6,044 receiving yards

Los Angeles Rams 1958-64, Vikings 1965-67: The former Benjamin Russell High School and Auburn standout caught 401 passes, averaged 15.1 yards per reception and scored 34 receiving touchdowns during his career. Phillips was an All-Pro selection in 1961, when he led the NFL with 78 receptions and reached 1,092 receiving yards.

7. Rich Caster: 5,515 receiving yards

New York Jets 1970-77, Houston Oilers 1978-80, New Orleans Saints 1981, Washington Redskins 1981-82: The former Williamson High School standout caught 322 passes, averaged 17.1 yards per reception and scored 45 receiving touchdowns during his career. Of the players on the top 10 list, Terrell Owens, Julio Jones, John Stallworth, Jerricho Cotchery, Red Phillips and Harlon Hill are wide receivers, and Ozzie Newsome and Marcus Pollard are tight ends. Caster’s position is listed as tight end, but at 6-foot-5 and 228 pounds, he also could play wide receiver. The No. 10 player on the state list, Tony Nathan, is a running back.

8. Harlon Hill: 4,717 receiving yards

Chicago Bears 1954-61, Pittsburgh Steelers 1962, Detroit Lions 1962: The former Lauderdale County High School and North Alabama standout caught 233 passes, averaged 20.2 yards per reception and scored 40 receiving touchdowns during his career. Hill won the Newspaper Enterprise Association’s NFL MVP Award for the 1955 season, and his career yards-per-catch average is the third-best in league history among qualifying players.

9. Marcus Pollard: 4,280 receiving yards

Indianapolis Colts 1995-2004, Detroit Lions 2005-06, Seattle Seahawks 2007, Atlanta Falcons 2008: The former Valley High School standout caught 349 passes, averaged 12.3 yards per reception and scored 40 receiving touchdowns during his career. Pollard did not play football in college. He went to the NFL after playing basketball at Bradley.

10. Tony Nathan: 3,592 receiving yards

Miami Dolphins 1979-87: The Woodlawn High School and Alabama standout caught 383 passes, averaged 9.4 yards per reception and scored 16 receiving touchdowns during his career. Nathan ranks seventh among former Alabama high school players in NFL rushing yards with 3,543.

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