The NFL will play 13 games on Sunday. Six of them will include a starting quarterback with Alabama football roots.

Week 15 of the NFL’s 2024 season will be the first in the league’s history with six starting quarterbacks from Alabama high schools and colleges. For each of the past seven weeks, five of the NFL’s starting QBs had Alabama football roots, but injuries and open dates had prevented six of the quarterbacks from playing in the same week.

This season, 48 quarterbacks have started games, with 14 of the 32 teams using more than one starter.

Among the quarterbacks who have answered the bell for 13 games this season are Jalen Hurts (Alabama) for the Philadelphia Eagles and Bo Nix (Pinson Valley, Auburn) for the Denver Broncos.

Also starters when the season began were Tua Tagovailoa (Alabama) of the Miami Dolphins and Bryce Young (Alabama) of the Carolina Panthers. But each took a seat after Game 2. Tagovailoa went to injured reserve because of a concussion and missed four games. Young got benched and watched Andy Dalton play quarterback for Carolina until returning to the starting lineup in Week 8.

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Week 8 also is when Jameis Winston (Hueytown) became the Cleveland Browns’ starting quarterback after Deshaun Watson went down with a season-ending injury.

Mac Jones (Alabama) started in Weeks 10 and 11 for the Jacksonville Jaguars with Trevor Lawrence sidelined by a shoulder injury. Jones returned to the lineup on Sunday with Lawrence out because of a concussion, and with Lawrence going to injured reserve, it looks as though Jones will be at helm for the Jacksonville offensive for the remainder of the season.

This season is the first in which seven quarterbacks with Alabama football roots have started games. Malik Willis (Auburn) started the second and third games of the season for the Green Bay Packers and delivered victories with Jordan Love sidelined.

In all, 34 quarterbacks from Alabama high schools and colleges have started NFL or AFL regular-season games.

Hurts is involved in one of Sunday’s marquee games when the Eagles square off against the Pittsburgh Steelers. At the same time, the Detroit Lions and Buffalo Bills will meet. Sunday will be the first time since 1985 that the NFL has two games in the same week between teams with at least 10 victories apiece in Week 15 or earlier in the season.

While Jones, Winston and Young are on teams playing out the final month of the campaign before heading into the offseason, Nix and Tagovailoa are battling to get their teams into the playoffs. The Dolphins can’t afford any more losses as they face the Houston Texans, and the Broncos could tighten their grip on a postseason spot by beating playoff contender Indianapolis on Sunday.

The Alabama Game of the Week is the Dolphins-Texans contest on Sunday. Fourteen players from Alabama high schools and colleges are on the teams’ active rosters.

The Week 15 schedule (with all times Central and point spreads from BetMGM):

Thursday

• Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers (-3), 7:15 p.m. (Prime Video)

Sunday

• Dallas Cowboys at Carolina Panthers (-3), noon (WBRC, WCOV, WDFX)
• Kansas City Chiefs (-4) at Cleveland Browns, noon (WIAT, WHNT, WKRG, WAKA)
• Miami Dolphins at Houston Texans (-3), noon (WTVY)
• New York Jets (-3.5) at Jacksonville Jaguars, noon
• Washington Commanders (-7.5) at New Orleans Saints, noon (WALA)
• Baltimore Ravens (-16) at New York Giants, noon
• Cincinnati Bengals (-5) at Tennessee Titans, noon (WZDX)
• New England Patriots at Arizona Cardinals (-6), 3:25 p.m.
• Indianapolis Colts at Denver Broncos (-4), 3:25 p.m.
• Buffalo Bills at Detroit Lions (-2.5), 3:25 p.m. (WIAT, WTVY, WHNT, WKRG, WAKA)
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Los Angeles Chargers (-3), 3:25 p.m.
• Pittsburgh Steelers at Philadelphia Eagles (-5.5), 3:25 p.m. (WBRC, WZDX, WALA, WCOV, WDFX)
• Green Bay Packers (-3) at Seattle Seahawks, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)

Monday

• Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings (-7), 7 p.m. (ABC)
• Atlanta Falcons (-4) at Las Vegas Raiders, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

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