Every Detroit Lions starting QB ever: Full list

Heading into the franchise's 95th season in 2024, the Detroit Lions have of course had a lot of starting quarterbacks over their history. For the last decade-plus though, after Matthew Stafford shook off an injury-plagued start to his career, they've basically had two (Stafford and Jared Goff). But the overall list is fairly eclectic. First-round busts, retreads, a future head coach, a future Super Bowl starter filling in for a Hall of Famer who ended up with three Super Bowl rings as a backup, even a future prominent college football analyst. Here is the full list of starting quarterbacks the Detroit Lions have had in their history (starting as the Portsmouth Spartans from 1930-1933 of course). Notes: The number of starts is regular season starts. "Games started" data is tough to pin down from the very early days of the NFL, so where it was iffy I've either not included it or put an asterisk As best as possible, with overlapping years, I've put the quarterbacks chronologically based on the first year each q