This post continues the debate started by FrankDNole here.  My research may not be as thorough as the experts at TN, but here's what I've come up with:

NFL Starts:

1993 Roster -- 1,464

1999 Roster -- 1,402

How did I come up with these?

First, I simply counted the number of starts according to NFL.com.  I used this site for year-by-year FSU rosters.  Here are the numbers (let me know who I missed):

NFL Starters from 1993 Roster
(Sorry about the formatting -- couldn't figure out how to insert tables properly.)

(*For kickers, starts aren't listed on NFL.com, so I just considered them the starter unless there was some reason to think they weren't.  Bentley seems to have started only one game, but I think Janikowski has been the "starting" kicker his whole time in Oakland, with the exception of a few games.)

After counting the starts, I added projected starts for currently active players -- Dunn and Brooks, in this case:

Brooks  (3 more years x 16 avg. starts per year)
Dunn  (3 more years x 12.8 avg. starts per year)   

Is this too generous for Brooks and Dunn?  Maybe.  But this makes a new projected total of 1,464 NFL starts.  I don't think anyone else from the '93 squad is currently active.

GRAND TOTAL for 1993 roster: 1,464 NFL starts

And now the 1999 team:

NFL Starters from 1999 Roster

Add projected starts for currently active players:

I projected a 15 year career x their average # of starts per year so far.  I thought this was generous.  This is by far the most subjective part of my analysis.  Feel free to offer better projections.  I also could be wrong about who is currently active.  My information is almost strictly from NFL.com.

GRAND TOTAL for 1999 roster:  1,402 NFL starts

Conclusions:  I was surprised by how close the numbers are.  One interesting thing to note is that once the numbers are adjusted for projected starts, the avg. # of starts per player is higher for the 1999 roster (only counting those who actually started in the NFL):

Perhaps this is a point in favor of the 1999 team.  A point against the 1999 squad is that a kicker is responsible for 16.7% of their starts.  But in the end, given the margin of error in my projections, the comparison does not give us a clear winner.  I suppose what the data tell us is that the two teams were incredibly close talent-wise. 

Here are a few names you might think are missing (played in the NFL, but never started a game):
1993 -- Clifton Abraham, Sean Jackson, Kevin Knox, Kez McCorvey, Julian Pittman.
1999 -- Sean Key, Nick Maddox, Kendyll Pope, Tarlos Thomas. 

I'll leave further analysis of the data to others . . . 

Some questions:
* Did I miss any Seminoles from these rosters who started in the NFL?
* How do these NFL start totals stack up to other schools? (Miami, USC, etc.)
* What is the offense/defense breakdown for each squad?