Super Bowl LV kicks off in Tampa in less than a week and fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are gearing up for the big game. But across the country, hometowns of the Super Bowl participants also take pride in knowing a favorite son could soon hoist the iconic Lombardi Trophy.
MaxPreps takes a look where all the players on the active rosters and injured reserve of each team played high school football. Sixty players are represented from the AFC champions while the NFC champs had 61.
The high school football hotbed of Florida leads the way with 14 players overall, but it's not California, Georgia or Texas with the second most. Instead, it's Pennsylvania with nine players, led by former Woodland Hills (Pittsburgh) standout Rob Gronkowski.
California, Georgia and Texas each register eight players who played prep ball in state.
Among the California and Texas contingents are the Super Bowl's most notable stars — Tom Brady who graduated in 1995 from Serra (San Mateo, Calif.) and Patrick Mahomes graduated 19 years later in 2014 from Whitehouse (Texas).
Tyreek Hill graduated from Coffee (Douglas, Ga.) in 2012 and was not ranked coming out of high school and had zero offers.
Only two high schools had more than one player featured. Tyrann Mathieu and Leonard Fournette both attended St. Augustine (New Orleans) while Antonio Brown and Carlton Davis graduated from Norland (Miami) nine years apart.
In total, 28 different states had at least one player while 11 had more than five.
Kansas City Chiefs
California (2)
Daniel Sorenson,
Colton | Class of 2008
Colorado (1)
Florida (6)
Georgia (4)
Illinois (2)
Kentucky (1)
Louisiana (4)
L'Jarius Sneed,
Minden | Class of 2016
Maryland (1)
Massachusetts (1)
Michigan (4)
Andrew Wylie,
Midland | Class of 2012
Mississippi (7)
Willie Gay,
Starkville | Class of 2017
Chris Jones,
Houston | Class of 2013
Thakarius "BoPete" Keyes,
Laurel | Class of 2016
Charvarius Ward,
McComb | Class of 2014
Missouri (2)
North Carolina (1)
Ohio (5)
Oklahoma (2)
Darwin Thompson,
Jenks | Class of 2015
Oregon (1)
Pennsylvania (4)
South Carolina (3)
Tennessee (1)
Texas (5)
Ricky Seals-Jones,
Sealy | Class of 2013
Utah (1)
Marcus Kemp,
Layton | Class of 2013
Virginia (2)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Alabama (3)
California (6)
Alex Cappa,
Dublin | Class of 2013
Colorado (1)
Delaware (1)
Florida (8)
Carlton Davis, Norland (Miami) | Class of 2015
Jamel Dean,
Cocoa | Class of 2015
Georgia (4)
Illinois (3)
Iowa (2)
Anthony Nelson,
Waukee | Class of 2015
Louisiana (2)
Leonard Fournette, St. Augustine (New Orleans) | Class of 2014
Maryland (2)
Massachusetts (1)
Michigan (2)
Minnesota (3)
Missouri (2)
Nebraska (1)
New York (1)
North Carolina (4)
Ryan Succop,
Hickory | Class of 2005
Ohio (1)
Oregon (1)
Pennsylvania (5)
Tennessee (2)
Texas (3)
Virginia (2)
Canada (1)
Anthony Auclair, Champlain College Lennox (Quebec, Canada)