During the 2022 season, eight of the quarterbacks who started at least half of their NFL team’s games had played at an SEC football program before reaching the pros.

That tied a record for the conference established in 1962 that appears likely to be broken this year.

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Eight NFL teams seem set to start the season next month with a former SEC player as the starting quarterback, and three more might.

The Cincinnati Bengals with Joe Burrow (LSU), Chicago Bears with Justin Fields (Georgia), Philadelphia Eagles with Jalen Hurts (Alabama), New England Patriots with Mac Jones (Alabama), Dallas Cowboys with Dak Prescott (Mississippi State), Los Angeles Rams with Matthew Stafford (Georgia), Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa (Alabama) and Carolina Panthers with Bryce Young (Alabama) have their starter in place, barring injury.

Former SEC players who might end up as opening-game starters include Jacoby Brissett (Florida) with the Washington Commanders, Anthony Richardson (Florida) with the Indianapolis Colts and Kyle Trask (Florida) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The eight quarterbacks from the SEC who started at least half the games in 2022 were Brissett (with the Cleveland Browns), Burrow, Fields, Hurts, Jones, Prescott, Stafford and Tagovailoa.

In 1962, eight of the 22 QB regulars in the NFL and AFL came from the SEC.

That season, Kentucky’s George Blanda with the Houston Oilers, Georgia’s Zeke Bratkowski with the Los Angeles Rams, Kentucky’s Babe Parilli with the Boston Patriots, LSU’s Warren Rabb with the Buffalo Bills, Alabama’s Bart Starr with the Green Bay Packers, Georgia’s Fran Tarkenton with the Minnesota Vikings, LSU’s Y.A. Tittle with the New York Giants and Vanderbilt’s Bill Wade with the Chicago Bears started at least half of their teams’ games.

At the other extreme, in the NFL seasons from 1986 through 1991 no quarterback from the conference held down a regular starting position in the league.

Fourteen NFL teams have four quarterbacks and 18 have three on their current training-camp rosters. Of those 110 quarterbacks, 23 played with SEC programs.

Six of those quarterbacks, including Brissett, Fields and Hurts, made a detour to another college program between the SEC and the NFL.

Two other NFL quarterbacks played at current SEC members before those schools joined the conference – the Kansas Ctiy Chiefs’ Blaine Gabbert from Missouri and Tennessee Titans’ Ryan Tannehill from Texas A&M.

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The former SEC quarterbacks on NFL rosters this year include:

ALABAMA

· Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles (entered the NFL from Oklahoma)

· Mac Jones, New England Patriots

· Tua Tagovailoa, Miami Dolphins

· Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers

ARKANSAS

· Brandon Allen, San Francisco 49ers

AUBURN

· Jarrett Stidham, Denver Broncos

· Malik Willis, Tennessee Titans (entered the NFL from Liberty)

FLORIDA

· Jacoby Brissett, Washington Commanders (entered the NFL from North Carolina State)

· Jeff Driskel, Arizona Cardinals (entered the NFL from Louisiana Tech)

· Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis Colts

· Kyle Trask, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

GEORGIA

· Stetson Bennett, Los Angeles Rams

· Justin Fields, Chicago Bears (entered the NFL from Ohio State)

· Jake Fromm, Washington Commanders

· Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams

KENTUCKY

· Will Levis, Tennessee Titans

LSU

· Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals

MISSISSIPPI STATE

· Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys

MISSOURI

· Drew Lock, Seattle Seahawks

OLE MISS

· Matt Corral, Carolina Panthers

TENNESSEE

· Joshua Dobbs, Cleveland Browns

TEXAS A&M

· Kyle Allen, Buffalo Bills (entered the NFL from Houston)

· Kellen Mond, Cleveland Browns

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