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NFL football is finally here and every starting quarterback heads into the season with one thing in common — if they're not the highest-paid player on the team, they're close to it. In charge of...
The following is a list of the top National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks in regular season wins since quarterback starts were first officially tracked in 1950. In the NFL, the starting quarterback is the only position that is credited with records of wins and losses. Tom Brady holds the record for the most regular season wins with 251 ...
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
Notable backup quarterbacks have also led the Chiefs to success after substituting for their starting quarterback, including Mike Livingston, [69] Rich Gannon, [70] and Damon Huard. [71] When Len Dawson was injured during the Chiefs’ 1969 season, second-year quarterback Mike Livingston won all six of his starts in Dawson's absence. [72]
Moon signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs as a backup in 1999. [32] He played in only three games in two years with the Chiefs and announced his retirement at age 44 in January 2001. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] His 291st and final touchdown pass was an 8-yard pass to Troy Drayton against the Rams on October 22, 2000, a game in which the ...
The following list shows career postseason records for each starting quarterback in the NFL playoffs. Wins or losses are credited to the quarterback who started the game for each team, even if he was injured or failed to complete the game. Note: from 1933 to 1949 some offenses did not employ a quarterback in the modern sense of the position ...
[17] [18] Quarterback sneaks or other runs in short yardage situations tend to be successful as a result of the distance between the offensive and defensive lines being one yard. Drew Tate, a quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders, led the CFL in rushing touchdowns during the 2014 season with ten scores as the backup to Bo Levi Mitchell.
Elway spent his freshman season as backup to future NFL quarterback Schonert, playing in nine games as the team went 5–5–1. After Schonert graduated, Elway became the starting quarterback as a sophomore, threw 27 touchdown passes (2nd in the NCAA), and led the team to a 6–4 record heading into the final week of the season.