We are in the midst of the best two-year run of Texas high school quarterbacks this century.

That’s quite the statement considering the QB Factory that is the Lone Star State on an annual basis. But I believe it to be true.

Let’s start with the 2021 class, which could go down as the deepest and most talented QB class this state has EVER seen.

Um, hello, Dematrius Davis – he of Galena North Shore lore and Hail Mary fame – was the fifth-rated QB in the class on TexasFootball.com. He’ll go down as one of the most accomplished high school football players ever, and he was the fifth-best QB prospect last year!

Ahead of him were Alabama’s Jalen Milroe (Katy Tompkins), LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier (Flower Mound Marcus), SMU’s Preston Stone (Dallas Parish Episcopal) and Tennessee’s Kaidon Salter (Cedar Hill).

Alabama’s 2021 class was the highest-rated cumulative class of all-time, and Milroe was the only QB in the class. That speaks volumes. Nussmeier will step on campus in Baton Rouge with a legitimate shot at starting next season and someday following in his father Doug’s footsteps of playing in the NFL. Stone is the leading passer in Dallas-area history and the highest-rated national recruit SMU has signed in two decades, while Salter is already in Rocky Top endearing himself to a fanbase starving for stability behind center; watch Salter throw the ball once and you’ll see that it’s only a matter of time before he gives them that.

Behind Davis was just an embarrassment of riches: Texas A&M’s Eli Stowers (Denton Guyer), Texas Tech’s Behren Morton (Eastland), Baylor’s Kyron Drones (Shadow Creek), Mississippi State’s Sawyer Robertson (Lubbock Coronado), Arkansas’ Lucas Coley (Cornerstone Christian), Houston’s Maddox Kopp (Houston St. Thomas) and Texas’ Charles Wright (Austin High).

Behind them was none other than Cedar Hill Trinity Christian’s Shedeur Sanders, who will be playing for his father Deion at Jackson State, and UTSA’s Eddie Lee Marburger, who set every Rio Grande Valley passing record imaginable during his illustrious career at Sharyland Pioneer (8,966 passing yards and 2,381 rushing yards).

Oh, but there’s more. Florida’s Jalen Kitna (Burleson), Michigan State’s Hampton Fay (Fort Worth All Saints), Mississippi State’s Daniel Greek (Argyle Liberty Christian), Boise State’s Taylen Green (Lewisville), UTEP’s Jakolby Longino (Fort Bend Hightower), Virginia’s Jacob Rodriguez (Wichita Falls Rider) and Pitt’s Nate Yarnell (Lake Travis) cannot be overlooked.

The state’s 2021 QB class has 21 signal-callers headed to high-level programs. Twenty-one. That’s just unheard of.

Now on to 2022, which is as top-heavy as the clientele of a plastic surgeon’s office.

You’ve got the consensus No. 1 player in the country – regardless of position – in Southlake Carroll’s Quinn Ewers, who is committed to Ohio State. He is, by all accounts, as elite a prospect at the position as this state has ever seen.

The last QB from Texas to be ranked as the consensus No. 1 player in the country was Vince Young back in 2002. He turned out to be OK.

Then you’ve got Clemson commit Cade Klubnik from Austin Westlake, who is making a case for the top QB in this class. His Chaps defeated Ewers’ Dragons in the 6A DI state championship to close the 2020 season.

Next you’ve got Connor Weigman from Cypress Bridgeland, who has all the tools (both in football and baseball) to make himself a very wealthy individual down the road. He’s committed to Texas A&M.

Frisco Lone Star’s Garret Rangel (Oklahoma State commit), Rockwall-Heath’s Joshua Hoover (trending toward Arkansas), Flower Mound’s Nick Evers (as sizzling a prospect as there is in the state at the moment), Rockwall’s Braedyn Locke (offers from Miami & Mississippi State, amongst others), Houston Westfield’s Cardell Williams, Gilmer’s Brandon Tennison and Aledo’s Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi will move up the national rankings as next season progresses.

You put these two classes together and it is the best two-year run of QBs this state has seen this century.

A case can be made for 2020-21 because the 2020 class was insanely dynamic (Hudson Card, Haynes King, Chandler Morris, Malik Hornsby, Ken Seals, Deuce Hogan, etc.). But I’ll take the 2022 front-runners over 2020.

The 2015 class was great (Jarrett Stidham, Kyler Murray, Quinten Dormady), but not as deep as 2022. And the classes before (Jerrod Heard, Patrick Mahomes, Foster Sawyer) and after (Jalen Hurts, Shane Buechele, Dillon Sterling-Cole) don’t hold the same weight as Ewers, Klubnik, Weigman and Rangel in my opinion.

The 2004 class was stacked with Rhett Bomar, Bobby Reid, Stephen McGee, Graham Harrell and Kirby Freeman, but the classes on either side of them don’t compete with either 2021 or 2022.

The same can be said for 2006 (Matthew Stafford, Jevan Snead, Greg McElroy); terrific prospects, but they can’t compete with 2021-22 when you add in 2005 or 2007 (Ryan Mallett, Jarrett Lee, Brock Mansion and G.J. Kinne).

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.