Known as "Jaws" is probably a better commentator than he was an NFL quarterback, but the fact of the matter is that he knew what he was doing under center. Boller was a respectable player for the Ravens, but never turned into anything more than a game-manager style quarterback. Blanda holds the record for most extra points kicked in NFL history, and might have been a better kicker than he was a quarterback. The New England Patriots were prohibitive favorites against the New York Giants, and Brady was going to join Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the third quarterback to win four Super Bowls. 1 quarterback of all time. If there was ever a quarterback that took way too much heat, it would be Donovan McNabb. If you are looking for an offense that could score at will, this could be it. A two-time pro-bowl player, he won a championship in 1956. He was part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2017. He would ultimately go on to a storybook career with the Rams, Giants and Cardinals that spanned 12 years. for NFL news and in-depth analysis concerning the 2020 season and beyond. Tarkenton is rightly remembered as a great scrambler, but sometimes people forget exactly how good he was as a passer. 1 draft choice from Louisiana Tech made several clutch throws in the postseason when the Steelers needed them. It's a luxury for the Ravens to have this guy on their roster backing up Joe Flacco. The Falcons were making their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 142 regular season record. Esiason had a somewhat unique style compared to most other quarterbacks, stemming primarily from the fact that he was left-handed; he is one of the most successful southpaw quarterbacks of all time. However, in the blistering cold, the Browns chose to pass and Sipe was intercepted in the end zone trying to get the ball to Hall of Fame TE Ozzie Newsome. They are listed in order of the date of each player's first start at quarterback for the Bears. This guy has some STATS. But it's just too early- try me again in five years. Blanda played for the Bears, Oilers, and Raiders in his long career. It's hard not to make the list when you're throwing to a guy as talented as Lance Alworth the first AFL player to make the Hall of Fame, and to his credit, Hadl led the AFL in passing in both 1965 and 1968. Earl Morrall, during his 21-year career, earned the title of "best backup QB" in NFL history; Morrall was part of three Super Bowl teams and led the Baltimore Colts into Super Bowl III at 13-1 where they were promptly upset by Joe Namath's Jets. The fastest quarterback to reach the 60,000- and 70,000-yard milestones, he's fourth all-time in career regular-season wins (172). Aside from having a mental block against Baltimore, Collins has been in the league for a long time, and you can do a lot worse than this guy under center. 5 overall and some guy named Drew Brees at No. Single-season record for rushing TD in a season (12). After more than 20 years in the National Football League, he said on his . If this is the end for Tom Brady, hes a shoo-in for the history books and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2027. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. The late George Blanda is next on the list, and he earns such a high spot because of his longevity at the professional level. McNair played most of his career with the Tennessee Titans, though he played his final two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens after Texas QB Vince Young was drafted to be McNair's replacement in Tennessee. Leftwich, commonly remembered for his collegiate game in which he played with a broken leg, showed promise in the NFL but could never put it all together. Know primarily for his long run with the Green Bay Packers, Favre caused ire with fans after announcing his retirement in 2008 and then joining up with the New York Jets soon after. Yet his two seasons outside the top 10 in overall grade were all the way down at 17 th (2015) and 25 th (2012), something that we never saw from Rodgers, Brees, and Brady ahead of him. For a long time, it was Joe Montana and then everybody else in the greatest quarterback of all time conversation. However, in 1958, the Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers what happened then is the subject of much debate. 2) Joe Montana. After all, why do you think the Vikings put up with him? It's possible that no quarterback in the last decade was treated as unfairly as Jason Campbell. Bill Wade's major claim to fame is that he quarterbacked the NFL champion Chicago Bears in 1963. 5. 6 on the countdown. Stats for active players are through the 2021 regular season. Allegedly, that is what Joe Montana said as he stepped onto the field in Super Bowl XXIII before the famous "Montana drive" that culminated with a Joe Montana touchdown pass to receiver John Taylor when the 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals. As the season has played out and new reporting has trickled in, however, we've learned more about Brady's future plans. Of course, if Brady entered the season with plans to retire, there could still be a chance he follows through and steps away. Finally, he finished his playing career with the Washington Redskins. He ranks in the top 10 in career passing yards, touchdown passes, attempts and completions, as well as total offense. Even in his lone Super Bowl loss, Brady did what he had to do. The idea of a guy like Peyton Manning doing that is simply hilarious, so it bears repeating that Luckman, one of the best QBs in league history, actually had that intention. Montana was no slouch during the regular season either, earning NFL MVP honors in both 1989 and '90. One of the poster boys for prima donnas in the NFL and a former No. He will go down as one of the most prolific passers in NFL history. Sure, he's going to have some clunkers every now and again, but Brees has been in the league a long time and for the last five years has really been one of the league's elite QBs. He's a player who has been solid but has almost certainly topped out on the listunless, of course, he manages to lead his team to a Super Bowl title before he retires. The former No. He was prolific in his attack and really brought the Oregon program back to national prominence. It didnt help that his final season with the Minnesota Vikings wasnt anything to write home about, but the year before that he passed for 4,202 yards and 33 touchdowns, according to the NFL. Well, Joe Namath's numbers aren't that great, either, as far as his career goes, and Namath is in the Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, Dawson started lighting it up with the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s and was named to the second team of the All-Time AFL Team at the league's dissolution and merger into the NFL after Super Bowl IV, which Dawson's Chiefs won over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings; Dawson got redemption in this game after losing Super Bowl I to Vince Lombardi's Packers. Then Cardinals Head Coach Dennis Green even called Leinart's draft day fall a "gift from heaven." 1 overall after trading with the Chargers, who got some guy named LaDainian Tomlinson at No. His 20-year run in New England is unprecedented: 17 division titles, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six world championships. He might be embattled and wearing the wrong team's colors these days, but the fact that he's become a polarizing figure shouldn't obscure Favre's legendary career. Starr was the face of the Packers franchise, and even if his stats aren't exactly eye-popping, the fact of the matter is- even if you call him a game manager. Yes, there are knocks against him that he was surrounded by an all-star supporting cast on both offense and defense, and he didn't avoid a couple of big upsets. 13m ago. If you'd asked me a few years ago, I would have told you that Carson Palmer would have climbed higher on this list. List of San Francisco 49ers starting quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo (2017-present) Nick Mullens (2018-2021) C. J. Beathard (2017-2021) These quarterbacks have started at least one game for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. However, they ran into a buzz saw in the form of the Seattle Seahawks with a final score of 43-8. Jackson eventually became the starter in Minnesota and later in Seattle, but failed to ever consistently perform at his high potential level. The longtime Indianapolis Colts QB joined the Denver Broncos in 2012 following his release from the team after drafting Andrew Luck. After several good seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, he has played for several NFL teams: Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, and Oakland. To me, Young and Favre are about the same. Manning, however, did assemble some pretty impressive stats including having the worst win percentage of any QB in NFL history with at least 100 starts, going 35-101-3 (26.3%). Theismann's Redskins won Super Bowl XVII, but failed to defend their title in Super Bowl XVIII the next year. A onetime record holder for the most passing touchdowns in NFL history, Warren Moon was able to parlay his physical gifts and throwing acumen into a career that spanned from 1983 to 2000. He then signed with Tampa Bay as a free agent prior to the 2020 season and promptly led the Buccaneers to victory in Super Bowl LV, earning MVP honors for a record fifth time. Not that his statistics don't back it up, though- they do. Stabler scored what appeared to be the winning touchdown with just over a minute left in the game, but his heroics were foiled by Franco Harris and the so called "Immaculate Reception," which kick-started a rivalry between the Steelers and Raiders that was at its strongest in the 1970s. It was a beautiful scene for New Orleans faithful, not all that long ago: The Saints, formerly the 'Aints, finally lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy and were Super Bowl champions at the end of last season. It also helped him earn NFL MVP honors in 1990. Big Ben, as he is affectionately known, announced his retirement on Jan. 24 after 18 seasons as the Steelers' starting quarterback. However, his final throw of the game and his career was a two-point conversion late in the game. After his career failed to ever get back on track, Bulger retired from the game and remained fairly under the radar. Kilmer was selected 11th overall in the NFL draft (39th overall in the AFL draft) out of UCLA. 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It is interesting to note that Jones is occasionally described as someone who would be one of the better players ever, had he been in possession of a better supporting cast; this view is held by former Giants GM Ernie Accorsi. Lomax's career was shortened by his nagging need for hip replacement surgery, which he underwent in 1991. Leinart was also recently selected into the 2017 College Football Hall-of-Fame. Nevertheless, it isn't like Simms was handed both rings: following the 1986 season, Simms played one of the best games of his career against the Denver Broncos, completing 22 of 25 passes. In so far as there were "blockbuster" trades in 1964, the trade that brought him to Philadelphia in exchange for Sonny Jurgenson probably qualifies. What Buccaneers QB has said about return for 24th NFL season, Four times Tom Brady has flipped out on coaches, teammates and tablets in 2022, Brady to Dolphins? He was named an All-Pro an impressive 10 times and was invited to the Pro Bowl in all but three of his seasons (14). Before joining the Bills, Kelly spent two seasons with the Houston Gamblers of the USFL, winning league MVP honors in 1984. Baugh played three ways, offense, defense, and punter, leading the Washington Redskins to two NFL titles (1937 and 1942). Graham held the highest career QB passer rating (86.6) until Joe Montana retired in 1994. But no matter how good the quarterback is, the run always comes to an end at some point. He could move up the list with several more good seasons. Elway has a fantastic game as well. With McNair at the helm, the Tennessee Titans were usually one of the NFL's better teams. It was a different time- there weren't as many teams in the NFL as there are today, and there wasn't the same kind of parity. Many believe Leftwich has what it takes to eventually become a head coach in the NFL. Brunell then signed with the Saints and was the backup QB for Drew Brees during the Saints' Super Bowl run. Those people who were fortunate enough to make it down to "Lombardi Gras," as it was known, witnessed a celebration unlike any other. No one will ever confuse Joe Ferguson for Peyton Manning, but he was good enough to stick around from 1973 all the way until 1990. Brees would lead the Saints to their one and only Super Bowl (XLIV) victory in franchise history in 2009, earning game MVP honors in the process. Ultimately, though, Simms is diminished to some extent by the fact that he was never the biggest reason his team was winning during his tenure with the Giants. Brees has been one of the league's best quarterbacks since joining the Saints, and almost broke Dan Marino's single season passing yardage record in 2008, still throwing for over 5,000 yards. Tittle has everything he could possibly want on his resume as far as numbers, but his legacy is hurt somewhat by the lack of an NFL championship, despite the fact that the Giants appeared in three straight NFL title games from 1961-3 with Tittle at quarterback. Unfortunately, Leinart was never able to duplicate his collegiate success in the pros and lost his starting gig to the aging, yet amazing Kurt Warner on multiple occasions. When you watch highlight films from the 1970s, you see a lot of Terry Bradshaw. Speaking of Manning, you wont see him on this list. In any event, the forward pass became a primary offensive weapon while Baugh was in the league, and "Slingin Sammy" was always at the forefront in terms of using this innovative approach. At the same time, just the stratospheric nature of Manning's numbers alone warrant a place in the top five. In addition to playing for the Seahawks, he spent time with the Tennessee Titans before finishing his career with the Indianapolis Colts as one of the oldest NFL quarterbacks to ever put on the pads. Esiason's 1988 season was probably his best; he led the Bengals to the franchise's second Super Bowl birth. Herb Scharfman/Sports Imagery/Getty Images, recently admitted that he blew a few calls. #1 Aaron Rodgers - 13002 yards (4th), 14.74 . When I said a select group, I meant a minuscule group at that. The 25 Chicago Bears starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked. His Hall of Fame NFL career spanned 11 seasons, tallying a stellar 101-59 record with a career completion percentage of better than 60 percent. He played all the way through 1976 and promptly landed a gig at the University of Miami when he stopped playing. But unlike guys like Peyton Manning or Dan Marino, the two statistically best passers of their eras, Elway didn't also have the stats where one or two rings could jump a guy all the way to the top. Tarkenton would never win an NFL championship during his 18-year career spent with the Vikings and Giants, but he did lead the Vikings to the Super Bowl on three separate occasions. You know, the 11 time Pro Bowler, the guy who holds the records for most passes attempted, most passes completed, most touchdowns, most consecutive starts you get the idea. He is a two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, having constantly dealt with adversity throughout his career, and he now backs up Chad Henne. The 2007 NFL Draft was "headlined" by JaMarcus Russell, arguably the most severe quarterback bust of all time and a first-overall whiff who set the Raiders back years. Gannon had an above average career in the NFL, and appeared in the Super Bowl against Tampa, which the Raiders lost. 66.1 percent completion percentage (best all-time), Early in his career, Jeff Hostetler backed up Phil Simms for the New York Giants and became an NFL starter only after Simms was injured in a game in December 1990. MORE:Breaking down Tom Brady's record by season with Buccaneers and Patriots. Jones played in Baltimore through 1981 before playing part of the 1982 season with the Los Angeles Rams, when he suffered a career-ending neck injury. Favre also built a tough-as-nails reputation on his way to becoming the NFLs Iron Man, starting in 297 consecutive regular-season games. He still has time to do so, especially now that he has Chad Johnson on his team catching passes, but it looks like the Bengals are still the Bungles when it comes to putting together back-to-back playoff seasons. Johnny U was the quintessential quarterback of his era, leading as a shining example for every signal-caller that tried to follow in his footsteps. Bobby Layne was drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1948, but was behind both Sid Luckman and Johnny Lujack on the depth chart, so he refused to return to the team in 1949. I'm about to get hammered no matter where I place Starr. Today, Archie Manning is perhaps best known as the father of current NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning, but Archie was a pretty good player in his own right. Starr lost just one playoff game in his storied 16-year career, placing him amongst the greatest postseason quarterbacks in NFL history. He was a REALLY GOOD game manager who also happened to win an NFL MVP. You'll periodically hear Starr's name come up in discussions about the top quarterback of all time, though it is rare. He was known as one of the first great T-formation quarterbacks; he is probably still the best QB in Bears franchise history (nice try Jim McMahon). But on occasion, you could still see it shine through. After winning a national championship at Notre Dame, Joe Cool or The Comeback Kid as he is often referred, would go on to a legendary career with the 49ers. Plunkett might be the worst quarterback to ever win two Super Bowls, but the point remains the man still did win two Super Bowls, both with the Oakland Raiders, winning the Super Bowl MVP in his first go-round. The former 49er great is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Both had started in 1990, but neither separated themselves. I'm not averse to putting "young guns" on the list, but I won't jump Joe Flacco to No. Manning finished the game 13 of 23 for 141 yards with one interception. Norm Van Brocklin played the first nine years of his twelve year career with the Los Angeles Rams and then finished his career with the Philadelphia Eagles. Of course, Morton's legacy is somewhat diminished by the fact that he lost both of his Super Bowl appearances- to the Unitas-led Baltimore Colts in 1970 and to the Staubach-led Dallas Cowboys in 1977. Brett Favre racked up a ton of titles, awards, and recognitions throughout his 20 seasons in the NFL, including being known as a gunslinger, a Super Bowl champion, one of the wealthiest quarterbacks in the business, and one of the oldest NFL quarterbacks to ever suit up. The former Heisman Trophy winner at USC has been a mainstay at QB for the Bengals since he was drafted. Greg Landry was the 11th overall pick in the 1968 draft and spent most of his career with the Detroit Lions before finishing his career with the Baltimore Colts and then the Chicago Bears. 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