List of Cleveland Browns starting quarterbacks
Quarterbacks who have started for the Cleveland Browns football team from the team's first NFL season of 1950 through week 5, October 6, 2008 of the 2008 regular season. A player is credited with a win if he started the game and the team won that game, no matter if the player was injured or permanently removed on the second play from scrimmage. Only regular season games included.
(Note: the Browns did not field a team during the years 1996-98.)
Sorted by number of starts. Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in italics and current starter in bold.
Quarterback | Games Started | Wins | Losses | Ties |
---|---|---|---|---|
Brian Sipe | 112 | 57 | 55 | 0 |
Bernie Kosar | 105 | 53 | 51 | 1 |
Frank Ryan | 76 | 52 | 22 | 2 |
Otto Graham | 71 | 57 | 13 | 1 |
Tim Couch | 59 | 22 | 37 | 0 |
Bill Nelsen | 51 | 34 | 16 | 1 |
Mike Phipps | 51 | 24 | 25 | 2 |
Milt Plum | 51 | 33 | 16 | 2 |
Vinny Testaverde | 31 | 16 | 15 | 0 |
Derek Anderson | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
Paul McDonald | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 |
Charlie Frye | 19 | 6 | 13 | 0 |
Tommy O'Connell | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
Kelly Holcomb | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
Jim Ninowski | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
Trent Dilfer | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
Jeff Garcia | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
Doug Pederson | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
Gary Danielson | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Mike Tomczak | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Mike Pagel | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
George Ratterman | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Todd Philcox | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Dave Mays | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Eric Zeier | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Luke McCown | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Babe Parilli | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Mark Rypien | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Don Strock | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Jeff Christensen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Ty Detmer | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Don Gault | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Gary Lane | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Len Dawson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Spergon Wynn | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Terry Luck | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Will Cureton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
References
- Database Football.com,url=http://www.databasefootball.com, last accessed 10/24/07
- Pro Football Reference.com, url=http://www.pro-football-reference.com, last accessed 10/24/07
- Cleveland Plain Dealer's Browns History Database, url=http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory, last accessed 7/02/2008
- Bill Levy, Return to Glory: The Story of the Cleveland Browns, (The World Publishing Co., 1965) LCCN 65023356.