Every Browns starting quarterback since their NFL return in 1999
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?
Complete with Driskel.
Unbelievable effort!#Browns pic.twitter.com/uNR0DGPw7m— Hayden Grove (@H_Grove) January 7, 2024
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
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Cleveland Browns quarterback history: Every starting QB since 1999