List of Minnesota Vikings starting quarterbacks

Kirk Cousins was the Minnesota Vikings' starting quarterback from 2018 to 2024.

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). A franchise was granted to Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund and Max Winter in 1959 as a member of the American Football League (AFL). The ownership forfeited their AFL membership in January 1960 and received the National Football League's 14th franchise on January 28, 1960 that started play in 1961.[1]

The Vikings have had 39 starting quarterbacks in the history of their franchise; they had never had more than three starting quarterbacks in one season until 2023.[a] The Vikings' past starting quarterbacks include Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Fran Tarkenton, Brett Favre and Warren Moon.[2] The team's first starting quarterback was George Shaw; he was replaced by Tarkenton in the franchise's first game, and the future Hall of Famer retained the starting role for most of the remainder of the season. Kirk Cousins was Minnesota's most recent starting quarterback, from 2018, until being signed by the Atlanta Falcons in 2024.

  1. ^ "Vikings – Team History". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2009.
  2. ^ "Hall of Famers". vikings.com. Minnesota Vikings Football. Archived from the original on October 4, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009.