2024-09-24 12:05:03
Week 3 of the NFL season features a Monday Night Football doubleheader. First, the Jacksonville Jaguars take on the Buffalo Bills starting at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. At 8:15 p.m. ET on ABC, the Washington Commanders face off with the Cincinnati Bengals on the road.
The Commanders-Bengals game features something NFL fans haven’t seen in decades: a matchup between two former LSU quarterbacks. Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy and national championship with the Tigers in 2019. Washington rookie Jayden Daniels won the Heisman in 2023 before going No. 2 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft.
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LSU quarterback matchups in NFL history
Monday Night Football marks the fifth time two former LSU quarterbacks have played each other in NFL history. The previous four times were all between the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Colts in 1980 and 1981.
Those games featured former Tigers Bert Jones and David Woodley, who started for Baltimore and Miami, respectively. The two played against each other four times between 1980 and 1981, and Miami won three of the games. The nearly 43 years since then, the NFL hasn’t seen two former Tiger quarterbacks go head-to-head.
LSU quarterbacks in the NFL
Thirteen LSU quarterbacks have thrown at least 50 passes in the NFL. Hall of Famer Y.A. Tittle was the first to do so after being drafted into the NFL in 1948.
Daniels and Burrow are the two most recent ones. Here are the other 10 and the teams they played for:
- Jones (Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams)
- Stan Humphries (Washington, San Diego Chargers)
- Woodley (Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers)
- Matt Flynn (Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks)
- M.C. Reynolds (Chicago Cardinals, Washington, Buffalo Bills, Raiders)
- Tom Hodson (New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots)
- JaMarcus Russell (Raiders)
- Warren Rabb (Bills, Detroit Lions)
- Alan Risher (Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- Zach Mettenberger (Tennessee Titans)
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2024 NFL starting quarterbacks from the same college
It’s common for quarterbacks from the same college to play against each other in the NFL. The most recent matchup was last year’s NFC Wild Card playoffs between former Oklahoma quarterbacks Jalen Hurts (Philadelphia) and Baker Mayfield (Tampa Bay).
At the time of publishing, seven colleges have multiple starting quarterbacks in the NFL:
