Brothers playing in the NFL is unique, but not necessarily a rarity. Brothers leading a team in passing in consecutive seasons, however, could be a final question on Jeopardy. The answer: Who are Ty and Koy Detmer?

Selected by the Eagles in the seventh round of the 1997 draft, Koy Detmer joined his brother who had arrived in Philadelphia as a free agent from Green Bay one year earlier.

"We knew it could possibly happen," said Koy, the younger Detmer by five years, nine months. "It was really exciting for us as a family that he was there and we were going to be on the same team playing together because we had never done that the whole time growing up or at any point."

But before they would have a chance to make family history, Koy had to prove himself during training camp and show that he belonged on the roster. It was a tough task made a little easier by having Ty, a third-year veteran and former Heisman Trophy winner, there as an example and more importantly, as a sounding board.

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"Oh, yeah. Definitely. He was already established and I was really just trying to make the team," said Detmer. "It's an adjustment going from the college level to the pro level. To have somebody there that already knew the ropes and how everything worked and all that kind of stuff, I knew that was going to be a big help for me. And in particular, having it be a family member, your brother, makes it even better."

The Eagles opened the following season with only one Detmer on their roster – Koy. With Ty off to San Francisco, Koy, who had spent his rookie season on Injured Reserve, was third on the depth chart behind Bobby Hoying and Rodney Peete. But after they were injured during the season, it became a good news, bad news situation for Detmer.

The good news: he was the Eagles' starting quarterback. The bad news: the team was 2-9 when he took over the job in a game at Green Bay. Detmer started the final five games and finished the year with a team-high 1,011 yards and five touchdowns.

"My first year on IR, I wasn't able to do any of the practices, but I was able to sit in meetings and learn. So it was great to have a chance to play," said Detmer. "Unfortunately, our season wasn't going well. But in any event, it was an opportunity to get on the field. It was a great experience for me and a chance to prove myself and show people what I was able to do as a player. We didn't win a lot of games, but it was a positive experience. The production by the offense was better than what it had been throughout the year and we had some good chances to win games, but didn't finish them off."

Detmer's chances to direct the offense on a long-term basis greatly diminished when the Eagles selected Syracuse quarterback Donovan McNabb in the first round of the 1999 draft. That year, the first of the Andy Reid regime, also saw the team add veteran quarterback Doug Pederson.

Aside from one start in 1999 -- a 24-9 victory over New England when he passed for three touchdowns -- Detmer's next opportunity didn't occur until three years later on a Monday night in San Francisco when McNabb was sidelined with an ankle injury. The seemingly rust-free Detmer completed two touchdown passes and ran for another before being sidelined himself with a dislocated elbow. Philadelphia won its second of six straight games, 38-17.

"I'd spent a lot of time standing on the sideline watching and learning and so when I got a chance to play in San Fran, that was exciting," Detmer said. "It was great because our team was successful at that point in time. We were having a good season and on the way to the playoffs. And it being Monday night, playing against San Francisco, they were on that same path heading towards the playoffs.

"It was a lot of fun and certainly an exciting time, an exciting game. It was really the only time I got a chance to start and get out there and play on a Monday night."

Granted, Detmer didn't didn't spend as much time on the field as he would have hoped, but Detmer contributed to whatever success the Eagles enjoyed during his 10 seasons [1997-2006] in Philadelphia. He played an integral part of the field-goal unit as the holder for Pro Bowl placekicker David Akers. And in 2004, he was presented with the Jack Edelstein Award, which is selected by Philadelphia media annually to the Eagles player who displays good character and lifts the spirits of others.

"I knew my role,"" said Detmer. "Obviously, you're always working and preparing to be the starter when you have an opportunity to go out there and be successful, but Donovan was going to be our guy. So I always focused my energies on trying to help him be as successful as possible and the team be as successful as possible. Whatever it may be, whatever I needed to do to try to help that. Also in 2000 is when I became the holder, so I had a role with that.

"I tried to focus on the things I could control and tried to help the team be successful and just stay positive and ready to go if an opportunity came up where I did have a chance to play."

Now making his home in San Antonio, Texas -- with his wife, Katie, and their children: Koy Jr., 11; Katie, 7; and Koal, 5 -- Detmer is once again on the same team as his brother, Ty, as the vice president of business development for Triton Financial, which is based in Austin, Texas.

"We're more of an investment group, but our main thing is commercial real estate," Koy explained. "Ty had been going over there and interning with them in the offseason and that's how I got into it. We bring in deals and properties and things like that as well as help raise investment dollars for our properties.

"We also have a sports marketing side of the group. We have the Heisman Winners Association under our umbrella and have the marketing rights for them. My brother being a Heisman winner, he kind of brought all that together. We have a golf tournament in the summer and some other events that we do for those guys.

"What we're really trying to do is build a company that kind of combines the sports side with business, and it's going real well. We have a lot of neat people involved and a lot of good things going on."