As teenagers separated by three years at Malvern Prep, Ryan Nassib was a two-time all-league quarterback, while brother Carl Nassib didn’t crack the starting lineup with the Friars until his senior year.

On Sunday, in the brothers’ first NFL matchup, defensive end Carl, a rookie for the Cleveland Browns, recorded three tackles as his brother, a backup quarterback with the New York Giants, witnessed it from the sidelines.

It’s a role reversal for the West Chester natives, though it’s one both brothers are excited to be part of.

“It’s unbelievable,” Ryan said of Carl in a Giants.com staff report. “He’s got a great story. Everything he has coming to him is well-deserved. From not playing to playing, it’s all been hard work, determination, and getting better every day. He’s a real inspiration to not only me, but to a lot of kids that have been in his position as well.”

Three years older, Ryan led the way as a star for both Malvern Prep and Syracuse. Carl, on the other hand, didn’t blossom until late in college.

However, the Penn State walk-on tallied an impressive 15.5 sacks in his senior season, and earned the Big Ten’s Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year Award, named after Minnesota’s Bronko Nagurski and Michigan’s Charles Woodson.

“He was a little bit of a late bloomer,” Ryan said of Carl. “He grew late and filled in late. This is really only his true second year of playing a full season of football. He really only had the one year at college when he was an every-down player. It’s been a long time coming for him.”

And because of the age gap between the two, they never played on the same field.

Until now.

While the younger brother got in on the action, the elder came away with the 27-13 win.

Sources have indicated that Ryan, a fourth-round pick in 2013 who is in the last year of his four-year contract with New York, will look to sign this offseason with a team that will afford him the opportunity to compete for a starting job.

Read more of the story on Malvern Prep’s Nassib brothers on Giants.com here.