Where Super Bowl LIX participants from the Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles played high school football

By Zack Poff Feb 3, 2025, 10:30am

Thirty-one different states represented led by Florida with 14.

Super Bowl LIX takes place Sunday in New Orleans at Caesars Superdome as the Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles. In terms of tracking where this year's participants played high school football, Florida has the most players featured with 14.

Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Quinyon Mitchell, Hollywood Brown and Jawaan Taylor headline the talent from the Sunshine State.

Gardner-Johnson and Taylor were teammates at Cocoa and both graduated in 2016.

There are four other schools that have multiple players featured — Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.), Mallard Creek (Charlotte, N.C.) and Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.).



Nolan Smith and Elias Ricks both graduated from IMG. 

Ricks played with Nikko Remigio at Mater Dei before transferring to IMG Academy for his senior season. In 2017, they helped the Monarchs go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the MaxPreps Top 25 and did not trail at any point in the season.

Jaden Hicks and Nick Gates both played at Bishop Gorman while Jordan Davis and D.J. Humphries graduated from Mallard Creek.

Texas has the second-most players featured with 12 headlined by both starting quarterbacks in Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts.

This will be the fifth Super Bowl that features starting quarterbacks from the same state joining Super Bowl XIX (Joe Montana/Dan Marino), Super Bowl XXV (Jeff Hostetler/Jim Kelly), Super Bowl LIII (Tom Brady/Jared Goff) and Super Bowl LVII (Mahomes/Hurts).

Super Bowl III also featured two quarterbacks from the same state when Joe Namath faced Johnny Unitas but Unitas did not start. He replaced Earl Morrall in the third quarter and led the Colts on their only scoring drive of the game.



California is the only other state that had at least 10 players featured. Trent McDuffie, Xavier Worthy and Juju Smith-Schuster headline the 10 players from the Golden State.

In total, 31 different states have at least one player included in Super Bowl LIX.
Kansas City Chiefs

California (7)

Colorado (1)

Florida (4)

Georgia (5)



Indiana (4)

Kentucky (1)

Louisiana (1)

Massachusetts (1)

Michigan (1)

Mississippi (1)



Missouri (2)

Nevada (1)

New Jersey (2)

North Carolina (2)

North Dakota (1)

Ohio (4)



Oklahoma (2)

Pennsylvania (2)

South Carolina (1)

Tennessee (2)

Texas (4)

Utah (1)



Virginia (2)

Wisconsin (2)

Philadelphia Eagles

Alabama (4)

Arizona (1)

California (3)



Florida (10)
Nolan Smith, IMG Academy (Bradenton)

Georgia (2)

Illinois (2)

Iowa (1)

Louisiana (1)

Maryland (1)



Michigan (1)

Mississippi (2)

Nebraska (1)

Nevada (1)
Nick Gates, Bishop Gorman

New Jersey (2)

North Carolina (3)
Jordan Davis, Mallard Creek



Ohio (2)

Pennsylvania (3)

South Carolina (1)

South Dakota (1)

Texas (8)

Utah (1)



Virginia (4)

Wisconsin (1)

Outside United States (1)
Jordan Mailata, Condell Park (New South Wales, Australia)