Harrington had a skill set that seemed destined for NFL greatness, but unfortunately he was drafted by the downtrodden Detroit Lions. He's an NFL icon, and his popularity (or infamy, if you'd rather) transcends the NFL. That is unusually low for quarterbacks that played in Gabriel's era. Manning finished the game 13 of 23 for 141 yards with one interception. He's done for the year, but Tony Romo has put up pretty decent numbers during his time in the NFL. 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. On one level, it's hard to believe that the quarterback in charge of the great Miami Dolphins dynasty of the 1970s isn't the greatest in franchise history. Also, continue to visit. Slingin Sammy Baugh played in the NFL for 16 seasons, all with the Washington Redskins. Super Bowl XXXIII was the last game John Elway played, Peyton Manning ended his career in Denver after hoisting the Lombardi Trophy, ) to stay up to date with all things around the NFL. He was replaced by Marc Bulger, who had enjoyed success in Warner's absence. The pressure seems to get to him. He owns several Super Bowl records including a perfect 4-0 record (shared with Terry Bradshaw), the highest collective all-time QB rating in the Super Bowl (127.8), and the most passes thrown without an interception (122 in four games). Moon never won an NFL championship- five Grey Cups in the CFL will have to do- but his numbers alone warrant such a high place on the list. They are listed in order of the date of each player's first start at quarterback for the team. Single-season record for rushing TD in a season (12). Unitas deserves every accolade he gets and then some as one of the league's all-time great quarterbacks. Longevity alone doesn't do it for me. He'd do a lot of modern quarterbacks shame without any kind of adjustment for the new rules that favor offense. Keep in mind that the only active players who rank highly on the countdown have enjoyed long and accomplished careers. Warner is widely considered one of the most accurate and efficient passers in NFL history. Jackson was clearly in a dark place and hopefully he finds his way out of whatever hole he is in. If you listen to a lot of NFL analysts these days, they seem ready to rank Eli much higher up this list already, though I will readily admit that he very well could climb with greater production. Even though he is retired and went out of the NFL. Brady, who ended the regular . Yeah, I know; Michael Vick's career numbers aren't that great. While the quarterback position has certainly evolved throughout history there have been those field generals who have distinguished themselves from their peers regardless of the era in which they played. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Chad Pennington 4 of 100 Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The first modern quarterback. Elway was selected for nine Pro Bowls, was a three-time All-Pro honoree, and took home NFL MVP honors in 1987. Kolb, who used to spend his offseasons fishing and hunting wild boar, is now using his entrepreneurial skills to make a name for him in the business world in Texas. He won both the NFL Most Valuable Player Award and the NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award. Years after he finished playing in Baltimore, the late Johnny Unitas is still remembered and idolized for what he did on the football field. The former No. Go figure the only time a quarterback has won a Super Bowl and retired happened for the same franchise. According to the NFL, Blanda first played a professional football game in 1949 and didnt retire until 1975 as the leagues leading scorer. However, Warner had issues with injuries in the 2002 and 2003 seasons. 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? Gannon had a successful career but was never able to actually win a Super Bowl championship. It has to be quite the transition for most players to go from the top of the totem pole, to being on the outside of the sport looking in. He frequently led his teams to come-from-behind victories, earning himself the label "Captain Comeback," a title Roger Staubach earned before him. Unitas was the winning quarterback in the so-called "Greatest Game Ever Played," the 1958 NFL championship against the New York Giants, quarterbacked a successful title defense in 1959, then defeated the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V. Most of Unitas's records have now been broken with the advent of rule changes that favor offensive production, but Unitas pioneered such mainstays as the so-called "two-minute drill" that are still used today. In fact, Kolb never played another snap in the NFL after the Cardinals released him in 2013 and he retired following a concussion sustained in preseason with the Bills. He called it a career after the 2020 season and will likely go into the Hall of Fame as soon as he's eligible. Despite having some sporadic success in the NFL, especially with the 49ers in 2010, Smith failed to remain in the league and was forced to play in the Canadian Football League until he retired in 2014. Stroud waited until the last day to let everyone know his plans and released a statement saying the decision was very difficult . Nowadays, Garrard remains a staple in the Northern Florida community. "The Immobile One" was the No. He has followed the footsteps of his father by breeding and racing horses, which can be extremely lucrative if done properly. Tittle was the first quarterback to have consecutive 30+ TD pass seasons, something that only seven other quarterbacks have done in the history of the league. 5 overall and some guy named Drew Brees at No. but we were using very old ideas and equipment and over the last 20 years we have evolved . Staubach was named the NFL MVP in 1971, in addition to being named to the Pro Bowl on six separate occasions. Jake "the Snake" Plummer first earned his proverbial call sign for his elusiveness while playing for Arizona State University, and the nickname stuck with him throughout his college career. Consequently, Denvers offensive dominance continued into Super Bowl XXXIII. Still, he passed for a respectable 34,241 yards and 196 touchdowns over 17 seasons that included a four-year hiatus from 1994 through 1997, according to Pro Football Reference. Despite that, he would spend the longest stint of his 17-season career with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 1995 to 2004, when he decamped to join the Washington Redskins. At the beginning of his career, Van Brocklin split quarterbacking duties with Bob Waterfield, but soon took over the starting job himself. Jim Iwanicki (Jerry . NFL Network reported in December that "all options are on the table" for Brady in 2023. The first quarterback to start in Super Bowls with two different teams was Craig Morton, who appeared in the 1970 big game with the Dallas Cowboys and did the same in 1977 with the Denver Broncos. Stabler's first major appearance in the public spotlight was in relief of an injured Daryle Lamonica in the 1972 playoff game between the Raiders and the Steelers. No Twitter update. Plunkett is also one of only four players (with Roger Staubach, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard) to win both the Heisman Trophy and the Super Bowl MVP award. Clausen now spends his time with his family and raising his newborn son, Cooper Clausen. One of the poster boys for prima donnas in the NFL and a former No. Moon's best season with the Houston Oilers was 1993- also his last year with the team. However, the fact that a guy hasn't won a Super Bowl doesn't mean he wasn't one of the best to ever play the position. Ultimately when you get to the top few spots, you are obliged to nitpick, and nitpicking is enough for me to leave Elway at No. The roller coaster ride with Lomax was at its best in his Pro Bowl seasons, and his 4,614 passing yards in 1984 is good for 12th all time right now, though recent trends suggest that more and more quarterbacks will be hitting the 4,000 passing yard barrier in coming years. He also is currently second for all-time completion percentage (67.7), behind Deshaun Watson by 0.01. 1 overall draft pick out of Ole Miss entered the NFL in the shadow of older brother Peyton Manning, but it wasn't long before Eli began paving his own way into the annals of. 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. After finishing his career at Auburn University, Campbell was drafted in the first round by the Washington Redskins in 2005. He competed on the Golf Channel's Big Break show and also held a quarterback counsel position with the start up Major League Football (MLF). He would ultimately win five NFL titles in total, two via Super Bowls I and II. He also holds several distinguished NFL records, and was a six-time Pro Bowler. Brady hasn't said whether he plans to retire this offseason, but reports have indicated that he's open to a return. Bradshaw rarely put up phenomenal numbers during his 14 NFL regular seasons as quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Favre built a legacy in Green Bay, leading the Packers to back-to-back Super Bowls (XXXI and XXXII) and a world championship in 1996 (XXXI). 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. Gannon never had the biggest arm in the game, but he had some good numbers and warrants a place in the top 50. 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. Let me say this as clearly as I can: Fran Tarkenton might be the best regular season quarterback in NFL history. 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). However, despite the gaudy offensive numbers, Fouts's teams never appeared in a Super Bowl, though they did get to the AFC title game in 1980 and 1981. Good enough to crack the top 30, Phil Simms won two Super Bowls as a member of the New York Giants, first in Super Bowl XXI and then again in Super Bowl XXV. 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. On top of that, the guy was forced to demonstrate remarkable mental fortitude- remember, he was the guy who had to replace BRETT FAVRE in Green Bay. In so far as there were "blockbuster" trades in 1964, the trade that brought him to Philadelphia in exchange for Sonny Jurgenson probably qualifies. Elway was quickly traded to the Broncos, having never played a single down for the Colts. Copyright 2019-2023. Miami 'definitely on the table' for QB in 2023 offseason, per report. Lamonica was a winner, and it's hard to penalize him for not winning a Super Bowl against a stacked team like Vince Lombardi's Packers in Super Bowl II. Cunningham was remarkably flexible and has been described by many as having more raw talent than any other QB to ever play the game of football. There are just not very many players like Peyton Manning. 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. Maybe it's a stretch to put Rodgers this high, especially given that he's only in his third full season as an NFL starter. He would ultimately go on to a storybook career with the Rams, Giants and Cardinals that spanned 12 years. The 25 Chicago Bears starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked. Bert Jones was selected second overall in the 1973 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts to be the eventual successor to all-everything QB Johnny Unitas, and he played at Memorial Stadium for eight seasons. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs (there are those Ravens again, sorry). The 2022 season has been one of Brady's most challenging. He will go down as one of the most prolific passers in NFL history. The oldest quarterback ever, George Blanda, was just shy of his 49 th birthday when he retired! The fact that his career has gone continually downhill since the early 2000s has made some people forget the few seasons where Culpepper was among the best passers in the NFL. Before his nuclear six-interception meltdown against the Cardinals in the playoffs two years ago, Jake Delhomme was John Fox's quarterback. 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