After news broke that Josh Freeman would be replaced by Mike Glennon as Tampa Bay’s starting quarterback this week, we got to thinking: Glennon went to NC State and there are a few other NFL quarterbacks who are also Wolfpack alums — Philip Rivers and Russell Wilson, who spent 2007-10 there before transferring to Wisconsin.

That’s three starting NFL quarterbacks with NC State ties and as it turns out, is the most of any school. Additionally, the ACC has the most starting quarterbacks of any conference with seven. It would have been eight if Christian Ponder, who went to Florida State, didn’t have a fractured rib.

Of course the most successful players in the NFL aren’t always from major Division I programs, but 27 of the 32 are and the ACC makes up 22 percent of that total.