List of Super Bowl starting quarterbacks

Listing of Super Bowl starting quarterbacks

This is a list of National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks who have started in the Super Bowl.

Winning and losing quarterbacks[edit]

Quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl starts[edit]

Tom Brady has started ten Super Bowls, double that of John Elway, who is second. Brady has won seven.

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John Elway has started five Super Bowls, winning two.

Jim Kelly started four Super Bowls without winning any, a record. He’s one of seven quarterbacks who have started four Super Bowls.

Super Bowl wins are often used to determine the greatness of a quarterback.^[1] Of the eligible players, only Jim Plunkett has won multiple Super Bowls and not been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are the only starting quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls for two NFL teams, while Craig Morton and Kurt Warner are the only other quarterbacks to have started for a second team. Jim McMahon won a second Super Bowl ring having been a backup on the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers team that won Super Bowl XXXI.

Starts	Win(s)		Player	Record		Team(s)	Super Bowl(s)	Win %		Ref
10	7	6	Tom Brady	7–3	6–3	New England PatriotsA	XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLII, XLVI, XLIX, LI, LII, LIII	.700	.667	[2]
		1			1–0	Tampa Bay BuccaneersN	LV		1.000
5	2		John Elway*	2–3		Denver BroncosA	XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII	.400		[3]
4	4		Terry Bradshaw*	4–0		Pittsburgh SteelersA	IX, X, XIII, XIV	1.000		[4]
	4		Joe Montana*	4–0		San Francisco 49ersN	XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV	1.000		[5]
	2		Roger Staubach*	2–2		Dallas CowboysN	VI, X, XII, XIII	.500		[6]
	2	1	Peyton Manning*	2–2	1–1	Indianapolis ColtsA	XLI, XLIV	.500	.500	[7]
		1			1–1	Denver BroncosA	XLVIII, 50		.500
	0		Jim Kelly*	0–4		Buffalo BillsA	XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII	.000		[8]
3	3		Troy Aikman*	3–0		Dallas CowboysN	XXVII, XXVIII, XXX	1.000		[9]
	2		Bob Griese*	2–1		Miami DolphinsA	VI, VII, VIII	.667		[10]
	2		Ben Roethlisberger	2–1		Pittsburgh SteelersA	XL, XLIII, XLV	.667		[11]
	2		Patrick Mahomes	2–1		Kansas City ChiefsA	LIV, LV, LVII	.667		[12]
	1	1	Kurt Warner*	1–2	1–1	St. Louis RamsN	XXXIV, XXXVI	.333	.500	[13]
		0			0–1	Arizona CardinalsN	XLIII		.000
	0		Fran Tarkenton*	0–3		Minnesota VikingsN	VIII, IX, XI	.000		[14]
2	2		Bart Starr*	2–0		Green Bay Packersn	I, II	1.000		[15]
	2		Jim Plunkett	2–0		Oakland/Los Angeles RaidersA	XV, XVIII	1.000		[16]
	2		Eli Manning‡	2–0		New York GiantsN	XLII, XLVI	1.000		[17]
	1		Len Dawson*	1–1		Kansas City Chiefsa	I, IV	.500		[18]
	1		Joe Theismann	1–1		Washington RedskinsN	XVII, XVIII	.500		[19]
	1		Brett Favre*	1–1		Green Bay PackersN	XXXI, XXXII	.500		[20]
	1		Russell Wilson	1–1		Seattle SeahawksN	XLVIII, XLIX	.500		[21]
	0	0	Craig Morton	0–2	0–1	Dallas CowboysN	V	.000	.000	[22]
		0			0–1	Denver BroncosA	XII		.000
Starts	Win(s)		Player	Record		Team(s)	Super Bowl(s)	Win %		Ref

Notes[edit]

• BOLD formatting indicates that the game was won.
• Starr was 3–1 in NFL Championship games (1960, 1961, 1962, and 1965) played before the NFL and AFL met in the first Super Bowl.
• Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game (1962) played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl.
• Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both matches.^[23]

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