Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game 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 games. What Quarterback Has Started the Most Super Bowls? Over his career, Tom Brady has been to 10 Super Bowls, five more than second-place John Elway.In those 10 Super Bowl appearances, Brady boasts a 7-3 record. Elway and the Broncos were beaten up again in Super Bowl XII by another NFC East team; this time, it was MVP Doug Williams and his Washington teammates smashing Denver 42-10 to get on the list of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. Williams was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. With the 2025 Super Bowl on the way, we’ll soon know if a new NFL quarterback will join the eternal list of Super Bowl champions. This article, however, is about the starting quarterbacks of Super Bowl teams, and although the starting signal callers of all 32 NFL teams are crucial, the Super Bowl is the most important game T here have been 820 quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era — 34 have won a Super Bowl; and 13 have won more than one Super Bowl. If Patrick Mahomes wins next Sunday, he will join Troy Aikman (3), Terry Bradshaw (4), Joe Montana (4), and Tom Brady (7) as the only quarterbacks to win three or more Super Bowls. Super Bowl History of both Super Bowl starting quarterbacks and the teams that they played for (1967-2024). < SUPER BOWL PAGE Not only has a rookie quarterback never won a Super Bowl, but a rookie Below is my annually updated list of Super Bowl starting quarterbacks, which now includes 67 names. It's important to note that with regard to players like Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr, who Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game 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 games. The oldest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl is Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who was 43 years old in Super Bowl 55. The youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl was Ben Roethlisberger Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. Site Last Updated: Wednesday, February 5, 6:41AM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Subscribe to our Free Email Newsletter Mahomes will aim to become the first quarterback of a three-time defending Super Bowl champion; Hurts will seek to win his first Lombardi Trophy after arguably outplaying Mahomes in a loss on the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts stands beside the Lombardi Trophy during Super Bowl Opening Night on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Which NFL quarterback has the most Super Bowl losses? Jim Kelly lost all four of his Super Bowl starts, and they came in consecutive years. Kelly and the Buffalo Bills made Super Bowls 25, 26, 27 A fourth Super Bowl win would tie Mahomes with Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw for the second-most Super Bowl wins by a quarterback. Mahomes' 17 postseason wins are already the In the 59-year history of the Super Bowl, 20 quarterbacks stand out from the rest of those who have played in the game.The history of the Super Bowl-- and thus the NFL-- wouldn't be the same Bradshaw threw for 300-plus yards in half his Super Bowls which, in the 1970s, was the quarterback equivalent of going to the moon (Super Bowl XII, in 1978, featured 217 total net passing yards). A former epitome of excellence among NFL quarterbacks, ‘The Golden Arm’ earned three MVP titles, secured three NFL championships, and emerged victorious as the quarterback in Super Bowl V. Unitas achieved a remarkable feat by setting the record for the most consecutive games with a touchdown pass (47) from 1956 to 1960 — a record that 2025 Super Bowl: Where Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid rank among the best QB/head coach duos ever Jordan Dajani Barkley runs behind the best offensive line in the league. He is The Other Quarterback in Super Bowl 2025, if only because he isn’t the one 60 minutes from a three-peat. Hurts is the one who has been chasing this chance to win that elusive ring for
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