List of Cleveland Browns starting quarterbacks

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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

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