Super Bowl 2023: Where all the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs played high school football

Texas and Mississippi tie for the lead with the most high school alumni playing Sunday

Travis and Jason Kelce photo by Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports (2017)

Super Bowl 57 starts at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday on Fox, and we got curious about where all the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs started their road to the pros playing high school football.

This year's Super Bowl pits an unbelievable number of players who graduated from the same high school against each other Sunday, with the Kelce brothers being the headliners.

In addition to Cleveland Heights (Ohio) alumni Travis (Chiefs) and Jason (Eagles) Kelce being foes Sunday, five more pairs of opponents graduated from the same high school.

We have Eagles WR A.J. Brown vs. Chiefs LB Willie Gay (Starkville, Mississippi); Eagles LB Nakobe Dean vs. Chiefs LB Darius Harris (Horn Lake, Mississippi); Eagles DE Robert Quinn vs. Chiefs DE Carlos Dunlap (Fort Dorchester, South Carolina); Eagles LB Kyron Johnson vs. Chiefs QB Shane Buechele (Arlington Lamar, Texas); and Eagles RB Trey Sermon vs. Chiefs RB Jerick McKinnon (Sprayberry, Georgia).

But which state has the most high school alumni playing Sunday? It's a tie between the expected (Texas) and the unexpected (meaning it's not Florida, California or Georgia). It's also not Australia, the lone country outside the U.S. that's represented.

Last year we included every rostered player, regardless of whether they were injured or on the practice squad, but this time we're sticking to active players.

Here are all the Eagles and Chiefs on the teams' active rosters Sunday, grouped by state in alphabetical order, with the last high school each player attended in parentheses.

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Alabama (5)

Reed Blankenship, S, Eagles (West Limestone)

James Bradberry, CB, Eagles (Pleasant Grove)

Kadarius Toney, WR, Chiefs (Blount)

Prince Tega Wanogho, DT, Chiefs (Edgewood Academy)

Quez Watkins, WR, Eagles (Athens)

Australia (1)

Jordan Mailata, OL, Eagles (Condell Park)

JuJu Smith-Schuster photo by Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports (2014)

California (5)

Ian Book, QB, Eagles (Oak Ridge)

Grant Calcaterra, TE, Eagles (Santa Margarita Catholic)

Marcus Epps, S, Eagles (Huntington Beach Edison)

Trent McDuffie, CB, Chiefs (St. John Bosco)

JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR, Chiefs (Long Beach Poly)

Colorado (2)

Christian Elliss, LB, Eagles (Valor Christian)

Jack Stoll, TE, Eagles (Regis Jesuit)

Connecticut (3)

Jack Driscoll, OL, Eagles (Daniel Hand)

Josh Jobe, CB, Eagles (Cheshire Academy)

Lucas Niang, OL, Chiefs (New Canaan)

Florida (6)

Deon Bush, S, Chiefs (Christopher Columbus)

C.J. Gardner-Johnson, S, Eagles (Cocoa)

Linval Joseph, DT, Eagles (Santa Fe)

Joshua Kaindoh, DE, Chiefs (IMG Academy)

Tommy Townsend, P, Chiefs (Boone)

Marquez Valdes-Scantling, WR, Chiefs (Lakewood)

Georgia (7)

Orlando Brown, OL, Chiefs (Peachtree Ridge)

Harrison Butker, K, Chiefs (Westminster)

Malik Herring, DE, Chiefs (Mary Persons)

Jerick McKinnon, RB, Chiefs (Sprayberry)

Trey Sermon, RB, Eagles (Sprayberry)

Darius Slay, CB, Eagles (Brunswick)

Jaylen Watson, CB, Chiefs (Laney)

Illinois (3)

Nick Allegretti, OL, Chiefs (Lincoln-Way East)

T.J. Edwards, LB, Eagles (Lakes Community)

Jake Elliott, K, Eagles (Lyons Township)

George Karlaftis photo by Chad Krockover/For the Journal & Courier (2018) / Photo by Chad Krockover: For the Journal & Courier

Indiana (1)

George Karlaftis, DE, Chiefs (West Lafayette)

Iowa (1)

Jack Cochrane, LB, Chiefs (Mount Vernon)

Kansas (1)

Blake Bell, TE, Chiefs (Bishop Carroll)

Louisiana (5)

Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB, Chiefs (Baton Rouge Catholic)

Justin Reid, S, Chiefs (Dutchtown)

Boston Scott, RB, Eagles (Zachary)

DeVonta Smith, WR, Eagles (Amite)

L'Jarius Sneed, CB, Chiefs (Minden)

Maryland (2)

Zech McPhearson, CB, Eagles (Riverdale Baptist)

Zach Pascal, WR, Eagles (Wise)

Massachusetts (1)

Noah Gray, TE, Chiefs (Leominster)

Michigan (4)

Mike Danna, DE, Chiefs (De La Salle Collegiate)

Brandon Graham, DE, Eagles (Crockett)

Avonte Maddox, CB, Eagles (Detroit King)

Andrew Wylie, OL, Chiefs (Midland)

Nakobe Dean photo by Brad Vest/Memphis Commercial Appeal via Imagn Content Services (2018)

Mississippi (8)

A.J. Brown, WR, Eagles (Starkville)

Fletcher Cox, DT, Eagles (Yazoo City)

Nakobe Dean, LB, Eagles (Horn Lake)

Kenneth Gainwell, RB, Eagles (Yazoo County)

Willie Gay, LB, Chiefs (Starkville)

Darius Harris, LB, Chiefs (Horn Lake)

Chris Jones, DT, Chiefs (Houston)

Gardner Minshew, QB, Eagles (Brandon)

Missouri (2)

Khalen Saunders, DT, Chiefs (Parkway Central)

Brandon Williams, DT, Chiefs (Rockwood Summit)

Nebraska (1)

Cam Jurgens, C, Eagles (Beatrice)

New Jersey (4)

Michael Burton, RB, Chiefs (West Morris Central)

Rick Lovato, LS, Eagles (Middletown)

Isiah Pacheco, RB, Chiefs (Vineland)

Haason Reddick, LB, Eagles (Haddon Heights)

New York (2)

Jody Fortson, TE, Chiefs (South Park)

Brett Kern, P, Eagles (Grand Island)

North Carolina (4)

Jordan Davis, DT, Eagles (Mallard Creek)

Landon Dickerson, OL, Eagles (South Caldwell)

Javon Hargrave, DT, Eagles (North Rowan)

Joshua Williams, CB, Chiefs (Jack Britt)

Ohio (7)

Frank Clark, DL, Chiefs (Glenville)

Bryan Cook, S, Chiefs (Mount Healthy)

Jason Kelce, C, Eagles (Cleveland Heights)

Travis Kelce, TE, Chiefs (Cleveland Heights)

Darian Kinnard, OL, Chiefs (St. Ignatius)

Josiah Scott, CB, Eagles (Fairfield)

Joe Thuney, OL, Chiefs (Archbishop Alter)

Oklahoma (2)

Creed Humphrey, C, Chiefs (Shawnee)

James Winchester, LS, Chiefs (Washington)

Ndamukong Suh photo by Motoya Nakamura, The Oregonian/OregonLive (2003)

Oregon (2)

Isaac Seumalo, OL, Eagles (Corvallis)

Ndamukong Suh, DT, Eagles (Grant)

Pennsylvania (5)

Chad Henne, QB, Chiefs (West Lawn Wilson)

Skyy Moore, WR, Chiefs (Shady Side Academy)

Miles Sanders, RB, Eagles (Woodland Hills)

Justin Watson, WR, Chiefs (South Fayette)

Kyzir White, LB, Eagles (Emmaus)

South Carolina (2)

Carlos Dunlap, DE, Chiefs (Fort Dorchester)

Robert Quinn, DE, Eagles (Fort Dorchester)

South Dakota (1)

Dallas Goedert, TE, Eagles (Britton-Hecla)

Tennessee (2)

Patrick Johnson, LB, Eagles (Chattanooga Notre Dame)

Trey Smith, OL, Chiefs (University School of Jackson)

Texas (8)

Nick Bolton, LB, Chiefs (Lone Star)

Shane Buechele, QB, Chiefs (Arlington Lamar)

Jalen Hurts, QB, Eagles (Channelview)

Kyron Johnson, LB, Eagles (Arlington Lamar)

Lane Johnson, OL, Eagles (Groveton)

Ronald Jones, RB, Chiefs (McKinney North)

Patrick Mahomes, QB, Chiefs (Whitehouse)

Milton Williams, DT, Eagles (Crowley)

Utah (1)

Britain Covey, WR, Eagles (Timpview)

Virginia (5)

Nazeeh Johnson, S, Chiefs (Millbrook)

Derrick Nnadi, DT, Chiefs (Ocean Lakes)

Josh Sweat, DE, Eagles (Oscar F. Smith)

Juan Thornhill, S, Chiefs (Altavista)

K'Von Wallace, S, Eagles (Highland Springs)

Washington (1)

Andre Dillard, OL, Eagles (Woodinville)

Wisconsin (1)

Leo Chenal, LB, Chiefs (Grantsburg)