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Every Browns starting quarterback since their NFL return in 1999
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Date:2025-04-17 11:47:51
Everyone has seen it.
The brown Cleveland Browns jersey, complete with a list of last names that makes the extra large shirt look extra, extra large.
Those names make up the 38 different quarterback the Browns have had since their return to the NFL in 1999. The Browns enjoyed a history of good quarterbacks (Otto Graham, Brian Sipe, Bernie Kosar and Vinny Testaverde, just to name a few) before Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore in 1996. But the struggle ever since has been very real.
This year the Browns earned the dubious honor of becoming the first team to make the postseason using four different starting quarterbacks. That list grew to five when they started Jeff Driskel for the season finale to rest new hero/old rival Joe Flacco.
But who exactly are all those quarterbacks to pass through Cleveland during the past 25 years?
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Browns starting quarterbacks since 1999
Games started through 2023 season in parenthesis.
Tim Couch (59), Baker Mayfield (59), Derek Anderson (34), Colt McCoy (21), Brandon Weeden (20), Charlie Frye (19), Brian Hoyer (16), DeShone Kizer (15), Kelly Holcomb (12), Brady Quinn (12), Deshaun Watson (12), Trent Dilfer (11), Jacoby Brissett (11), Josh McCown (11), Jeff Garcia (10), Doug Pederson (8), Jason Campbell (8), Johnny Manziel (8), Cody Kessler (8), Senaca Wallace (7), Robert Griffin III (5), Joe Flacco (5), Jake Delhomme (4), Luke McCown (4), Ken Dorsey (3), Tyrod Taylor (3), Dorian Thompson-Robinson (3), Ty Detmer (2), Austin Davis (2), Case Keenum (2), P.J. Walker (2), Spergon Wynn (1), Bruce Gradkowski (1), Thad Lewis (1), Connor Shaw (1), Kevin Hogan (1), Nick Mullens (1), Jeff Driskel (1).
Browns starting quarterbacks by season since 1999
- 1999 — Tim Couch, Ty Detmer
- 2000 — Couch, Doug Pederson, Spergon Wynn
- 2001 — Couch
- 2002 — Couch, Kelly Holcomb
- 2003 — Couch, Holcomb
- 2004 — Holcomb, Jeff Garcia, Luke McCown
- 2005 — Trent Dilfer, Charlie Frye
- 2006 — Frye, Derek Anderson
- 2007 — Anderson, Frye
- 2008 — Anderson, Brady Quinn, Ken Dorsey, Bruce Gradkowski
- 2009 — Anderson, Quinn
- 2010 — Colt McCoy, Jake Delhomme, Seneca Wallace
- 2011 — McCoy, Wallace
- 2012 — Brandon Weeden, Thad Lewis
- 2013 -- Weeden, Jason Campbell, Brian Hoyer
- 2014 -- Hoyer, Johnny Manziel, Connor Shaw
- 2015 -- Manziel, Josh McCown, Austin Davis
- 2016 -- J. McCown, Cody Kessler, Robert Griffin III
- 2017 -- DeShone Kizer, Kevin Hogan
- 2018 -- Baker Mayfield, Tyrod Taylor
- 2019 -- Mayfield
- 2020 -- Mayfield
- 2021 -- Mayfield, Case Keenum, Nick Mullens
- 2022 -- Jacoby Brissett, Deshaun Watson
- 2023 -- Watson, Joe Flacco, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, P.J. Walker, Jeff Driskel
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