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Tyler Thigpen, the first player from Coastal Carolina to be selected in the NFL draft, will also be the first player from Coastal Carolina to start at quarterback. The 24-year old from Winnsboro, South Carolina will be starting on Sunday when Kansas City travels to Atlanta to face the Falcons.

Not having won a game in the past eleven months, Chiefs coach Herman Edwards said, “For what we’re trying to do, I think he can do a good job of it. He’ll be limited in some things, but we want to take a look at him.”

In Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders, in which the Chiefs lost 23 to 8, Thigpen came off of the bench completing 14 of 33 passes for 151 yards. He scored the only points of the game for Kansas City when he found Tight End Tony Gonzalez in the endzone and converted on the insuing two-point conversion.

The other backup QB, Brodie Croyle, has a separated shoulder and will be out for at least one more week. Damon Huard, who started Sunday’s game against Oakland, left in the first half with a sore neck.