With Jacoby Brissett expected to start for the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, N.C. State will have four former quarterbacks starting in the NFL this week.
Impressive.
Only three other schools – Miami (in 1993), Michigan (in 2004) and Southern California (in 2009) – have had four former quarterbacks start in the NFL in the same week.
That’s impressive company to keep.
This cements N.C. State’s claim as the current “Quarterback U.” in college football.
Philip Rivers (Los Angeles Chargers), Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks) and Mike Glennon (Chicago Bears) all started in Week 1. Brissett’s start with the Colts, after being traded at the end of the preseason by the New England Patriots, means that one-eighth of the NFL’s starting quarterbacks graduated from N.