When Brandon Silvers was at Troy University, he was the old guy.

It wasn’t that the 6-foot-3, 219-pound quarterback was actually old – he’s only 25 ­– but he was a part of the football program for 5 ½ years, so he had been at the school longer than most.

“I got called old when I was there, because I grayshirted and redshirted at Troy, and started for four years, so I was the oldest, well one of the oldest – they still had some guys older than me – on the team,” Silvers said. “I did get called old a lot.”

While he was one of the veterans in the room at Troy, Silvers just considers it part of his journey, a football odyssey that has led him across the country to Seattle where he becomes the first member of the Dragons’ roster.

“It’s been a crazy career I’ve had,” Silvers said. “I’m lucky to be in the position I’m in. I’m looking forward to the future.”

When Silvers was at Troy, he broke Sam Bradford’s NCAA freshman record for completion percentage, finding his target on 70.5 percent of his passes in his first season as the Trojans’ starter. As a senior, Silvers was instrumental in an upset win over LSU in Death Valley.

The quarterback helped build a program that went 3-9 his first year to a team that had back-to-back 10-win seasons and a pair of bowl-game victories before he graduated.

“I had a great career at Troy,” Silvers said. “I started on a losing team and left on a winning team.”