List of most wins by a National Football League starting quarterback

In the National Football League (NFL), the quarterback is the only position that is credited with records of wins and losses. At the time of the 1970 NFL–AFL merger, Johnny Unitas held the record for most regular season wins as a starting quarterback with 103. He retired after the 1973 season with 118 wins, and was later surpassed by Fran Tarkenton with 124 in 1978. John Elway moved ahead of Tarkenton during the 1996 season, and retired after the 1998 season with 148 wins. During the 2007 regular season, Brett Favre surpassed Elway to become the starting quarterback with the most regular season wins in NFL history, and his record stands at 186. Peyton Manning tied this record in 2015, and has fewer losses.Otto Graham holds the record for the highest winning percentage overall (min 35 wins) with .810. Tom Brady holds the record for the most wins with a single team. Wins in playoff games are not included.

This sortable table shows the top 100 NFL quarterbacks in order of regular season wins since the start of the modern era, 1950. The table also shows every team that a quarterback played for. If two quarterbacks have the same number of wins, the player with the highest winning percentage is ranked first.

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Updated through the 2016 season.

^ = Former leader in all-time wins

Note 1: Sammy Baugh is estimated to have won 92 games and could have qualified in the top 50 but he is not officially recognized due to being in the pre–1950 NFL era.

^* Note 2: Bobby Layne is listed as having started all 12 games for the Bulldogs (NFL) in 1949. The record for that team is 1–10–1. Combined with his official post–1949 won–loss–tied record of 80–51–4 (0.607), his overall estimated won–loss–tied record is 81–61–5 (0.568).

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