AFC South Starting Quarterback Changes

Houston Texans (2002-2016): Name stint Tenure [Year - Week (Game)] Starting QB First Start Last Start GS Reason for Change From * Record David Carr 2002 - 1 (1) 2003 - 8 (7) 23 injured right ankle 6-17 Tony Banks 2003 - 9 (8) 2003 - 9 (8) 1 * 1-0 Carr 2 2003 - 10 (9) 2003 - 11 (10) 2 bruised right shoulder 1-1 Banks 2 2003 - 12 (11) 2003 - 13 (12) 2 broken hand 1-1 Dave Ragone 2003 - 14 (13) 2003 - 15 (14) 2 * 0-2 Carr 3 2003 - 16 (15) 2006 - 17 (16) 50 Texans traded for Schaub in March 2007; Carr released 15-35 Matt Schaub 2007 - 1 (1) 2007 - 8 (8) 8 concussion 3-5 Sage Rosenfels 2007 - 9 (9) 2007 - 9 (9) 1 * 1-0 Schaub 2 2007 - 11 (10) 2007 - 13 (12) 3 dislocated shoulder 1-2 Rosenfels 2 2007 - 14 (13) 2007 - 17 (16) 4 * 3-1 Schaub 3 2008 - 1 (1) 2008 - 4 (3) 3 viral infection 0-3 Rosenfels 3 2008 - 5 (4) 2008 - 5 (4) 1 * 0-1 Schaub 4 2008 - 6 (5) 2008 - 9 (8) 4 injured left knee 3-1 Rosenfels 4 2008 - 10 (9) 2008 - 13 (12) 4 * 2-2 Schaub 5 2008 - 14 (13) 2011 - 10 (10) 46 injured right foot 25-21 Matt Leinart 2011 - 12 (11) 2011 - 12 (11) 1 injured right shoulder 1-0 T.J. Yates 2011 - 13 (12) 2011 - D (18) 7 * 3-4 Schaub 6 2012 - 1 (1) 2013 - 6 (6) 24 injured foot/ankle; ineffective 15-9 Case Keenum 2013 - 7 (7) 2013 - 15 (14) 8 injured right thumb; ineffective 0-8 Schaub 7 2013 - 16 (15) 2013 - 17 (16) 2 traded to Raiders in offseason 0-2 Ryan Fitzpatrick 2014 - 1 (1) 2014 - 9 (9) 9 ineffective (1 of 12, 6 yards, 3 interceptions) 4-5 Ryan Mallett 2014 - 11 (10) 2014 - 12 (11) 2 torn pectoral 1-1 Fitzpatrick 2 2014 - 13 (12) 2014 - 15 (14) 3 broken leg 1 2-1 Keenum 2 2014 - 16 (15) 2014 - 17 (16) 2 traded to Rams in offseason; Hoyer won training camp battle with Mallett 2-0 Brian Hoyer 2015 - 1 (1) 2015 - 1 (1) 1 ineffective 0-1 Mallett 2 2015 - 2 (2) 2015 - 5 (5) 4 ineffective 1-3 Hoyer 2 2015 - 6 (6) 2015 - 10 (9) 4 concussion 2 3-1 Yates 2 2015 - 11 (10) 2015 - 11 (10) 1 * 1-0 Hoyer 3 2015 - 12 (11) 2015 - 14 (13) 3 concussion 1-2 Yates 3 2015 - 15 (14) 2015 - 15 (14) 1 torn left ACL 1-0 Brandon Weeden 2015 - 16 (15) 2015 - 16 (15) 1 * 1-0 Hoyer 4 2015 - 17 (16) 2015 - WC (17) 2 Osweiler signed as free agent; Hoyer released in offseason 1-1 Brock Osweiler 2016 - 1 (1) 2016 - 15 (14) 14 ineffective 8-6 Tom Savage 2016 - 16 (15) 2016 - 17 (16) 2 1-1 * Normal starter returned from injury/rest. 1 Backup QB Tom Savage injured his knee in the same game. 2 Mallett missed the team flight to Miami for Week 7 and was cut after the game. Baltimore Colts (1953-1983) / Indianapolis Colts (1984-2016): Name stint Tenure [Year - Week (Game)] Starting QB First Start Last Start GS Reason for Change From * Record Fred Enke 1953 - 1 (1) 1953 - 8 (8) 8 separated shoulder 1 3-5 George Taliaferro 1953 - 9 (9) 1953 - 11 (11) 3 injured knee 0-3 Ed Mioduszewski 1953 - 12 (12) 1953 - 12 (12) 1 Colts traded with Rams for Kerkorian 2 0-1 Gary Kerkorian 1954 - 1 (1) 1954 - 2 (2) 2 injured 1-1 Enke 2 1954 - 3 (3) 1954 - 3 (3) 1 ineffective 0-1 Cotton Davidson 1954 - 4 (4) 1954 - 4 (4) 1 * 0-1 Kerkorian 2 1954 - 5 (5) 1954 - 12 (12) 8 Shaw drafted as the 1955 bonus pick (essentially #1 overall) 2-6 George Shaw 1955 - 1 (1) 1956 - 4 (4) 16 broken left leg 6-9-1 Johnny Unitas 1956 - 5 (5) 1956 - 12 (11) 7 courtesy start 3-4 Shaw 2 1956 - 13 (12) 1956 - 13 (12) 1 * 1-0 Unitas 2 1957 - 1 (1) 1958 - 6 (6) 18 broken ribs 13-5 Shaw 3 1958 - 7 (7) 1958 - 8 (8) 2 * 1-1 Unitas 3 1958 - 9 (9) 1965 - 8 (8) 95 injured back 61-34 Gary Cuozzo 1965 - 9 (9) 1965 - 9 (9) 1 * 1-0 Unitas 4 1965 - 10 (10) 1965 - 12 (12) 3 torn ligaments in right knee 1-1-1 Cuozzo 2 1965 - 13 (13) 1965 - 13 (13) 1 separated left shoulder 0-1 Tom Matte 1965 - 14 (14) 1965 - D (15) 2 * 1-1 Unitas 5 1966 - 1 (1) 1966 - 11 (10) 10 sore shoulder 7-3 Cuozzo 3 1966 - 12 (11) 1966 - 12 (11) 1 * 0-1 Unitas 6 1966 - 13 (12) 1967 - 14 (14) 17 injured right elbow in 1968 preseason 13-2-2 Earl Morrall 1968 - 1 (1) 1968 - SB (17) 17 * 15-2 Unitas 7 1969 - 1 (1) 1969 - 9 (9) 9 ineffective 5-4 Morrall 2 1969 - 10 (10) 1969 - 10 (10) 1 ineffective 1-0 Unitas 8 1969 - 11 (11) 1969 - 11 (11) 1 ineffective 1-0 Morrall 3 1969 - 12 (12) 1969 - 12 (12) 1 ineffective 0-0-1 Unitas 9 1969 - 13 (13) 1970 - 2 (2) 4 injured back/swollen knee 2-2 Morrall 4 1970 - 3 (3) 1970 - 3 (3) 1 * 1-0 Unitas 10 1970 - 4 (4) 1970 - SB (17) 14 torn right Achilles tendon in offseason 12-1-1 Morrall 5 1971 - 1 (1) 1971 - 9 (9) 9 * 7-2 Unitas 11 1971 - 10 (10) 1972 - 5 (5) 12 ineffective 3 5-7 Marty Domres 1972 - 6 (6) 1972 - 14 (14) 9 Colts drafted Jones #2 overall; won 1973 training camp battle 4-5 Bert Jones 1973 - 1 (1) 1973 - 5 (5) 5 ineffective 1-4 Domres 2 1973 - 6 (6) 1974 - 3 (3) 12 coach Howard Schnellenberger fired; GM/interim coach Joe Thomas named Jones starter 3-9 Jones 2 1974 - 4 (4) 1974 - 8 (8) 5 injured shoulder 1-4 Domres 3 1974 - 9 (9) 1974 - 11 (11) 3 * 1-2 Jones 3 1974 - 12 (12) 1977 - D (15) 48 separated right shoulder in 1978 preseason 31-17 Mike Kirkland 1978 - 1 (1) 1978 - 1 (1) 1 Troup returned from injured shoulder suffered in 1978 preseason 0-1 Bill Troup 1978 - 2 (2) 1978 - 6 (6) 5 * 2-3 Jones 4 1978 - 7 (7) 1978 - 7 (7) 1 injured right shoulder 0-1 Troup 2 1978 - 8 (8) 1978 - 8 (8) 1 three broken fingers on left hand 1-0 Kirkland 2 1978 - 9 (9) 1978 - 9 (9) 1 * 0-1 Jones 5 1978 - 10 (10) 1978 - 11 (11) 2 separated right shoulder 2-0 Troup 3 1978 - 12 (12) 1978 - 16 (16) 5 * 0-5 Jones 6 1979 - 1 (1) 1979 - 1 (1) 1 separated right shoulder 0-1 Greg Landry 1979 - 2 (2) 1979 - 7 (7) 6 * 1-5 Jones 7 1979 - 8 (8) 1979 - 10 (10) 3 sprained right shoulder 3-0 Landry 2 1979 - 11 (11) 1979 - 16 (16) 6 * 1-5 Jones 8 1980 - 1 (1) 1980 - 12 (12) 12 sprained right shoulder 6-6 Landry 3 1980 - 13 (13) 1980 - 13 (13) 1 * 1-0 Jones 9 1980 - 14 (14) 1981 - 13 (13) 16 injured right shoulder 1-15 David Humm 1981 - 14 (14) 1981 - 14 (14) 1 * 0-1 Jones 10 1981 - 15 (15) 1981 - 16 (16) 2 traded to Rams; Pagel drafted in 1982 4th round 1-1 Mike Pagel 1982 - 1 (1) 1983 - 11 (11) 20 ineffective 6-13-1 Mark Herrmann 1983 - 12 (12) 1983 - 12 (12) 1 ineffective (lost 37-0) 0-1 Pagel 2 1983 - 13 (13) 1984 - 7 (7) 11 ineffective 3-8 Herrmann 2 1984 - 8 (8) 1984 - 8 (8) 1 deep thigh bruise 1-0 Pagel 3 1984 - 9 (9) 1984 - 9 (9) 1 ineffective;  sprained thumb 0-1 Herrmann 3 1984 - 10 (10) 1984 - 10 (10) 1 ineffective 0-1 Pagel 4 1984 - 11 (11) 1984 - 11 (11) 1 ineffective 1-0 Art Schlichter 1984 - 12 (12) 1985 - 1 (1) 6 ineffective 0-6 Pagel 5 1985 - 2 (2) 1985 - 11 (11) 10 ineffective 3-7 Matt Kofler 1985 - 12 (12) 1985 - 12 (12) 1 ineffective 0-1 Pagel 6 1985 - 13 (13) 1985 - 16 (16) 4 Colts traded with Cowboys for Hogeboom; Pagel traded to Browns 2-2 Gary Hogeboom 1986 - 1 (1) 1986 - 2 (2) 2 separated right shoulder 0-2 Jack Trudeau 1986 - 3 (3) 1986 - 13 (13) 11 * 0-11 Hogeboom 2 1986 - 14 (14) 1986 - 16 (16) 3 torn ligament in left thumb in 1987 preseason 3-0 Trudeau 2 1987 - 1 (1) 1987 - 1 (1) 1 * 0-1 Hogeboom 3 1987 - 2 (2) 1987 - 5 (4) 3 cracked rib/punctured lung 4 2-1 Blair Kiel 1987 - 6 (5) 1987 - 6 (5) 1 strike ended 0-1 Trudeau 3 1987 - 7 (6) 1987 - 9 (8) 3 * 2-1 Hogeboom 4 1987 - 10 (9) 1987 - 12 (11) 3 dislocated right shoulder 2-1 Trudeau 4 1987 - 13 (12) 1987 - D (16) 5 * 3-2 Hogeboom 5 1988 - 1 (1) 1988 - 1 (1) 1 ineffective 0-1 Trudeau 5 1988 - 2 (2) 1988 - 3 (3) 2 torn ACL in right knee 0-2 Chris Chandler 1988 - 4 (4) 1989 - 3 (3) 16 damaged ligament in left knee 5 10-6 Trudeau 6 1989 - 4 (4) 1989 - 9 (9) 6 broken finger on left hand 3-3 Tom Ramsey 1989 - 10 (10) 1989 - 10 (10) 1 * 0-1 Trudeau 7 1989 - 11 (11) 1989 - 16 (16) 6 George drafted 1990 #1 overall 4-2 Jeff George 1990 - 1 (1) 1990 - 3 (3) 3 strained abdominal muscle 6 0-3 Trudeau 8 1990 - 4 (4) 1990 - 8 (7) 4 torn ligament in right knee 6 2-2 George 2 1990 - 9 (8) 1991 - 17 (16) 25 stretched ligament in right thumb in 1992 preseason 6-19 Herrmann 4 1992 - 1 (1) 1992 - 1 (1) 1 Trudeau returned from bruised back * 1-0 Trudeau 9 1992 - 2 (2) 1992 - 3 (3) 2 * 0-2 George 3 1992 - 5 (4) 1992 - 11 (10) 7 broken right hand 3-4 Trudeau 10 1992 - 12 (11) 1992 - 14 (13) 3 * 2-1 George 4 1992 - 15 (14) 1992 - 17 (16) 3 held out from 1993 training camp in attempt to force a trade 3-0 Trudeau 11 1993 - 1 (1) 1993 - 6 (5) 5 ineffective 2-3 George 5 1993 - 8 (6) 1993 - 18 (16) 11 traded to Falcons; Colts signed Harbaugh as free agent 2-9 Jim Harbaugh 1994 - 1 (1) 1994 - 8 (8) 8 ineffective 3-5 Don Majkowski 1994 - 9 (9) 1994 - 15 (14) 6 ineffective 3-3 Harbaugh 2 1994 - 16 (15) 1994 - 16 (15) 1 ineffective 1-0 Browning Nagle 1994 - 17 (16) 1994 - 17 (16) 1 Colts traded with Buccaneers for Erickson; Nagle released in June 1-0 Craig Erickson 1995 - 1 (1) 1995 - 2 (2) 2 ineffective 1-1 Harbaugh 3 1995 - 3 (3) 1995 - 10 (9) 7 pulled groin muscle 4-3 Paul Justin 1995 - 11 (10) 1995 - 11 (10) 1 * 0-1 Harbaugh 4 1995 - 12 (11) 1995 - 14 (13) 3 damaged cartilage in right knee 2-1 Erickson 2 1995 - 15 (14) 1995 - 15 (14) 1 * 1-0 Harbaugh 5 1995 - 16 (15) 1996 - 13 (12) 17 strained ligament in left knee 9-8 Justin 2 1996 - 14 (13) 1996 - 15 (14) 2 * 2-0 Harbaugh 6 1996 - 16 (15) 1997 - 8 (7) 10 broken bone in right hand 7 1-9 Justin 3 1997 - 9 (8) 1997 - 10 (9) 2 dislocated finger on left hand 0-2 Kelly Holcomb 1997 - 11 (10) 1997 - 11 (10) 1 * 0-1 Justin 4 1997 - 12 (11) 1997 - 13 (12) 2 * 1-1 Harbaugh 7 1997 - 14 (13) 1997 - 17 (16) 4 traded to Ravens; Colts drafted Manning 1998 #1 overall 2-2 Peyton Manning 1998 - 1 (1) 2010 - WC (17) 227 offseason neck surgery 150-77 Kerry Collins 2011 - 1 (1) 2011 - 3 (3) 3 concussion 0-3 Curtis Painter 2011 - 4 (4) 2011 - 12 (11) 8 ineffective 0-8 Dan Orlovsky 2011 - 13 (12) 2011 - 17 (16) 5 released; Colts drafted Luck 2012 #1 overall 2-3 Andrew Luck 2012 - 1 (1) 2015 - 3 (3) 57 injured right shoulder 37-20 Matt Hasselbeck 2015 - 4 (4) 2015 - 5 (5) 2 * 2-0 Luck 2 2015 - 6 (6) 2015 - 9 (9) 4 lacerated kidney 1-3 Hasselbeck 2 2015 - 11 (10) 2015 - 16 (15) 6 injured shoulder/ribs/back 3-3 Josh Freeman 2015 - 17 (16) 2015 - 17 (16) 1 * 1-0 Luck 3 2016 - 1 (1) 2016 - 11 (10) 10 concussion 5-5 Scott Tolzien 2016 - 12 (11) 2016 - 12 (11) 1 * 0-1 Luck 4 2016 - 13 (12) 2016 - 17 (16) 5 3-2 * Normal starter returned from injury/rest. 1 Many of the 1953 Colts, including Taliaferro, were members of the 1952 Dallas Texans, but the NFL considers the 1952 Dallas Texans to be a separate and now-defunct franchise. 2 Kerkorian spent the 1953 season playing rugby in Australia. 3 Colts coach Don McCafferty refused to bench Unitas when when Colts general manager Joe Thomas asked him to do so in both Weeks 4 and 5.  McCafferty was fired after Week 5. 4 Hogeboom never went on strike. 5 The late-season 1988 Colts occasionally used a wishbone formation using former college option QB Ricky Turner. 6 Pro Football Reference mistakenly lists Trudeau as the starter for Week 3 and George as the starter for Week 8. 7 Harbaugh broke his hand punching former Bills QB Jim Kelly, who had called Harbaugh a "baby" on a local Buffalo television show the previous week.  Jacksonville Jaguars (1995-2016): Tenure [Year - Week (Game)] Starting QB First Start Last Start GS Reason for Change From * Record Steve Beuerlein 1995 - 1 (1) 1995 - 2 (2) 2 sprained right MCL 0-2 Mark Brunell 1995 - 3 (3) 1995 - 4 (4) 2 * 0-2 Beuerlein 2 1995 - 5 (5) 1995 - 5 (5) 1 ineffective 1-0 Brunell 2 1995 - 6 (6) 1995 - 12 (11) 6 strained hamstring 2-4 Beuerlein 3 1995 - 13 (12) 1995 - 14 (13) 2 * 0-2 Brunell 3 1995 - 15 (14) 1995 - 15 (14) 1 strained hamstring 0-1 Beuerlein 4 1995 - 16 (15) 1995 - 16 (15) 1 * 0-1 Brunell 4 1995 - 17 (16) 1996 - C (19) 20 tore knee ligaments in 1997 preseason 12-8 Rob Johnson 1997 - 1 (1) 1997 - 1 (1) 1 sprained left ankle 1-0 Steve Matthews 1997 - 2 (2) 1997 - 2 (2) 1 * 1-0 Brunell 5 1997 - 4 (3) 1998 - 14 (13) 28 sprained left ankle 19-9 Jamie Martin 1998 - 15 (14) 1998 - 15 (14) 1 sprained right knee 0-1 Jonathan Quinn 1998 - 16 (15) 1998 - 17 (16) 2 * 1-1 Brunell 6 1998 - WC (17) 1999 - 16 (15) 17 sprained left knee 14-3 Jay Fiedler 1999 - 17 (16) 1999 - 17 (16) 1 * 1-0 Brunell 7 1999 - D (17) 2001 - 9 (8) 26 sprained left shoulder 11-15 Quinn 2 2001 - 10 (9) 2001 - 10 (9) 1 * 0-1 Brunell 8 2001 - 11 (10) 2002 - 16 (15) 22 strained right hamstring 9-13 David Garrard 2002 - 17 (16) 2002 - 17 (16) 1 * 0-1 Brunell 9 2003 - 1 (1) 2003 - 3 (3) 3 cut left (throwing) elbow 0-3 Byron Leftwich 2003 - 4 (4) 2004 - 8 (8) 21 sprained left LCL 10-11 Garrard 2 2004 - 10 (9) 2004 - 11 (10) 2 * 1-1 Leftwich 2 2004 - 12 (11) 2005 - 12 (11) 17 broken left ankle 11-6 Garrard 3 2005 - 13 (12) 2005 - 17 (16) 5 * 4-1 Leftwich 3 2005 - WC (17) 2006 - 7 (6) 7 sore left ankle 3-4 Garrard 4 2006 - 8 (7) 2007 - 7 (6) 16 sprained left ankle 9-7 Quinn Gray 2007 - 8 (7) 2007 - 10 (9) 3 * 2-1 Garrard 5 2007 - 11 (10) 2007 - 16 (15) 6 meaningless game (Jaguars had clinched playoff berth) 5-1 Gray 2 2007 - 17 (16) 2007 - 17 (16) 1 * 0-1 Garrard 6 2007 - WC (17) 2010 - 6 (6) 40 concussion 16-24 Todd Bouman 2010 - 7 (7) 2010 - 7 (7) 1 * 0-1 Garrard 7 2010 - 8 (8) 2010 - 16 (15) 8 torn ligament in middle finger on right hand 5-3 Trent Edwards 2010 - 17 (16) 2010 - 17 (16) 1 McCown won 2011 training camp battle with Garrard and Gabbert; Garrard released 0-1 Luke McCown 2011 - 1 (1) 2011 - 2 (2) 2 ineffective 1-1 Blaine Gabbert 2011 - 3 (3) 2012 - 11 (10) 24 injured right forearm/left shoulder 5-19 Chad Henne 2012 - 12 (11) 2012 - 17 (16) 6 * 1-5 Gabbert 2 2013 - 1 (1) 2013 - 1 (1) 1 lacerated hand 0-1 Henne 2 2013 - 2 (2) 2013 - 3 (3) 2 * 0-2 Gabbert 3 2013 - 4 (4) 2013 - 5 (5) 2 strained right hamstring; ineffective 0-2 Henne 3 2013 - 6 (6) 2014 - 3 (3) 14 ineffective; Bortles 2014 first rounder 4-10 Blake Bortles 2014 - 4 (4) 2016 - 17 (16) 45 10-35 * Normal starter returned from injury/rest. Houston Oilers (1960-1996) / Tennessee Oilers (1997-1998) / Tennessee Titans (1999-2016): Name stint Tenure [Year - Week (Game)] Starting QB First Start Last Start GS Reason for Change From * Record George Blanda 1960 - 1 (1) 1960 - 10 (9) 9 injured ankle 6-3 Jacky Lee 1960 - 11 (10) 1960 - 13 (12) 3 * 2-1 Blanda 2 1960 - 14 (13) 1961 - 4 (3) 6 ineffective; coach Lou Rymkus on ropes trying to shake up team 4-2 Lee 2 1961 - 5 (4) 1961 - 7 (6) 3 Rymkus fired; Blanda restored to starting role two games later 1-1-1 Blanda 3 1961 - 8 (7) 1963 - 14 (12) 36 injured ankle 26-10 Lee 3 1963 - 15 (13) 1963 - 15 (13) 1 ineffective * 0-1 Blanda 4 1963 - 16 (14) 1964 - 10 (10) 11 2-9 Don Trull 1964 - 11 (11) 1964 - 11 (11) 1 ineffective (team on losing streak) 0-1 Blanda 5 1964 - 12 (12) 1965 - 6 (5) 8 ineffective 4-4 Trull 2 1965 - 7 (6) 1965 - 7 (6) 1 ineffective * 1-0 Blanda 6 1965 - 8 (7) 1965 - 13 (12) 6 ineffective (team on losing streak) 1-5 Trull 3 1965 - 14 (13) 1965 - 14 (13) 1 * 0-1 Blanda 7 1965 - 15 (14) 1966 - 9 (8) 9 injured arm; ineffective 3-6 Trull 4 1966 - 10 (9) 1966 - 14 (12) 4 bruised ribs 0-4 Buddy Humphrey 1966 - 15 (13) 1966 - 15 (13) 1 * 0-1 Trull 5 1966 - 16 (14) 1966 - 16 (14) 1 lost 1967 training camp battle 0-1 Lee 4 1967 - 2 (1) 1967 - 4 (3) 3 ineffective 1-2 Bob Davis 1967 - 5 (4) 1967 - 7 (5) 2 Oilers traded with Chiefs for Beathard two weeks earlier 1-0-1 Pete Beathard 1967 - 8 (6) 1968 - 4 (4) 14 emergency appendectomy 8-6 Davis 2 1968 - 5 (5) 1968 - 7 (7) 3 injured on hit by Jets' Verlon Biggs 1-2 Trull 6 1968 - 8 (8) 1968 - 10 (10) 3 * 2-1 Beathard 2 1968 - 11 (11) 1968 - 14 (13) 3 ineffective 2-1 Trull 7 1968 - 15 (14) 1968 - 15 (14) 1 * 1-0 Beathard 3 1969 - 1 (1) 1969 - 8 (8) 8 ineffective 4-4 Trull 8 1969 - 9 (9) 1969 - 10 (10) 2 injured 0-0-2 Beathard 4 1969 - 11 (11) 1969 - 12 (12) 2 sprained ankle 1-1 Trull 9 1969 - 13 (13) 1969 - 13 (13) 1 sore ribs 0-1 Davis 3 1969 - 14 (14) 1969 - 14 (14) 1 * 1-0 Beathard 5 1969 - D (15) 1969 - D (15) 1 traded to Cardinals for Johnson in offseason 0-1 Charley Johnson 1970 - 1 (1) 1970 - 5 (5) 5 broken left collarbone 2-3 Jerry Rhome 1970 - 6 (6) 1970 - 7 (7) 2 * 0-1-1 Johnson 2 1970 - 8 (8) 1970 - 12 (12) 5 injured knee 1-4 Rhome 2 1970 - 13 (13) 1970 - 14 (14) 2 * 0-2 Johnson 3 1971 - 1 (1) 1971 - 2 (2) 2 ineffective 0-2 Lynn Dickey 1971 - 3 (3) 1971 - 3 (3) 1 ineffective 0-0-1 Johnson 4 1971 - 4 (4) 1971 - 4 (4) 1 ineffective; Pastorini #3 overall in 1971 0-1 Dan Pastorini 1971 - 5 (5) 1971 - 8 (8) 4 1-3 Dickey 2 1971 - 9 (9) 1971 - 9 (9) 1 0-1 Pastorini 2 1971 - 10 (10) 1971 - 10 (10) 1 0-1 Johnson 5 1971 - 11 (11) 1971 - 11 (11) 1 0-1 Pastorini 3 1971 - 12 (12) 1972 - 11 (11) 14 injured; ineffective 1 4-10 Kent Nix 1972 - 12 (12) 1972 - 12 (12) 1 * 0-1 Pastorini 4 1972 - 13 (13) 1972 - 13 (13) 1 broken bones in back 0-1 Nix 2 1972 - 14 (14) 1972 - 14 (14) 1 * 0-1 Pastorini 5 1973 - 1 (1) 1973 - 7 (7) 7 0-7 Dickey 3 1973 - 8 (8) 1973 - 11 (11) 4 1-3 Pastorini 6 1973 - 12 (12) 1973 - 14 (14) 3 0-3 Dickey 4 1974 - 1 (1) 1974 - 4 (4) 4 ineffective 1-3 Pastorini 7 1974 - 5 (5) 1976 - 9 (9) 33 cracked rib 20-13 John Hadl 1976 - 10 (10) 1976 - 13 (13) 4 * 1-3 Pastorini 8 1976 - 14 (14) 1977 - 4 (4) 5 sprained ankle 3-2 Hadl 2 1977 - 5 (5) 1977 - 5 (5) 1 * 0-1 Pastorini 9 1977 - 6 (6) 1977 - 6 (6) 1 bruised ribs 0-1 Hadl 3 1977 - 7 (7) 1977 - 7 (7) 1 * 0-1 Pastorini 10 1977 - 8 (8) 1979 - 2 (2) 28 bruised right shoulder 18-10 Gifford Nielsen 1979 - 3 (3) 1979 - 3 (3) 1 * 1-0 Pastorini 11 1979 - 4 (4) 1979 - WC (17) 14 injured groin 10-4 Nielsen 2 1979 - D (18) 1979 - D (18) 1 * 1-0 Pastorini 12 1979 - C (19) 1979 - C (19) 1 traded to Raiders for Stabler 2 0-1 Ken Stabler 1980 - 1 (1) 1981 - 9 (9) 26 sprained left wrist 3 15-11 John Reaves 1981 - 10 (10) 1981 - 11 (11) 2 * 1-1 Stabler 2 1981 - 12 (12) 1981 - 14 (14) 3 ineffective 1-2 Nielsen 3 1981 - 15 (15) 1982 - 11 (3) 5 Oilers traded with Saints for Manning during strike 2-3 Archie Manning 1982 - 12 (4) 1982 - 16 (8) 5 pulled hamstring 0-5 Nielsen 4 1982 - 17 (9) 1982 - 17 (9) 1 * 0-1 Manning 2 1983 - 1 (1) 1983 - 3 (3) 3 traded to Vikings 0-3 Nielsen 5 1983 - 4 (4) 1983 - 10 (10) 7 ineffective 0-7 Oliver Luck 1983 - 11 (11) 1983 - 16 (16) 6 Oilers signed Moon as free agent out of CFL 2-4 Warren Moon 1984 - 1 (1) 1985 - 11 (11) 27 bruised left hip 7-20 Luck 2 1985 - 12 (12) 1985 - 13 (13) 2 * 1-1 Moon 2 1985 - 14 (14) 1986 - 13 (13) 16 bruised thumb 3-13 Luck 3 1986 - 14 (14) 1986 - 14 (14) 1 * 0-1 Moon 3 1986 - 15 (15) 1987 - 2 (2) 4 strike 3-1 Brent Pease 1987 - 4 (3) 1987 - 6 (5) 3 strike ended * 2-1 Moon 4 1987 - 7 (6) 1988 - 1 (1) 13 fractured right shoulder blade 8-5 Cody Carlson 1988 - 2 (2) 1988 - 6 (6) 5 * 3-2 Moon 5 1988 - 7 (7) 1990 - 16 (15) 44 dislocated right thumb 24-20 Carlson 2 1990 - 17 (16) 1990 - WC (17) 2 * 1-1 Moon 6 1991 - 1 (1) 1992 - 11 (10) 28 broken bone in left shoulder 18-10 Carlson 3 1992 - 12 (11) 1992 - 17 (16) 6 * 4-2 Moon 7 1992 - WC (17) 1993 - 6 (5) 6 ineffective 1-5 Carlson 4 1993 - 7 (6) 1993 - 7 (6) 1 injured groin 1-0 Moon 8 1993 - 8 (7) 1993 - 17 (15) 9 broken rib 9-0 Carlson 5 1993 - 18 (16) 1993 - 18 (16) 1 * 1-0 Moon 9 1993 - D (17) 1993 - D (17) 1 salary cap casualty 0-1 Carlson 6 1994 - 1 (1) 1994 - 1 (1) 1 separated left shoulder 0-1 Bucky Richardson 1994 - 2 (2) 1994 - 3 (3) 2 * 0-2 Carlson 7 1994 - 4 (4) 1994 - 5 (5) 2 sprained knee; shoulder 1-1 Richardson 2 1994 - 7 (6) 1994 - 7 (6) 1 * 0-1 Carlson 8 1994 - 8 (7) 1994 - 8 (7) 1 sprained knee; shoulder 0-1 Billy Joe Tolliver 1994 - 9 (8) 1994 - 9 (8) 1 * 0-1 Carlson 9 1994 - 10 (9) 1994 - 10 (9) 1 sprained knee; shoulder 0-1 Tolliver 2 1994 - 11 (10) 1994 - 16 (15) 6 ineffective * 0-6 Richardson 3 1994 - 17 (16) 1994 - 17 (16) 1 Oilers signed Richardson as free agent; released in training camp 1-0 Chris Chandler 1995 - 1 (1) 1995 - 2 (2) 2 bruised left shoulder 1-1 Will Furrer 1995 - 3 (3) 1995 - 3 (3) 1 * 0-1 Chandler 2 1995 - 4 (4) 1995 - 15 (14) 11 mononucleosis 4-7 Steve McNair 1995 - 16 (15) 1995 - 17 (16) 2 * 2-0 Chandler 3 1996 - 1 (1) 1996 - 9 (8) 8 injured groin 5-3 McNair 2 1996 - 10 (9) 1996 - 10 (9) 1 * 0-1 Chandler 4 1996 - 11 (10) 1996 - 13 (12) 3 sprained ankle 1-2 McNair 3 1996 - 14 (13) 1996 - 15 (14) 2 * 1-1 Chandler 5 1996 - 16 (15) 1996 - 16 (15) 1 ineffective 0-1 McNair 4 1996 - 17 (16) 1999 - 1 (1) 34 ruptured disc in back 18-16 Neil O'Donnell 1999 - 2 (2) 1999 - 6 (6) 5 * 4-1 McNair 5 1999 - 8 (7) 2000 - 2 (2) 16 bruised sternum 12-4 O'Donnell 2 2000 - 4 (3) 2000 - 4 (3) 1 * 1-0 McNair 6 2000 - 5 (4) 2001 - 1 (1) 15 injured right shoulder 11-4 O'Donnell 3 2001 - 2 (2) 2001 - 2 (2) 1 * 0-1 McNair 7 2001 - 4 (3) 2003 - 14 (13) 45 cracked bone spur in left ankle 28-17 Billy Volek 2003 - 15 (14) 2003 - 15 (14) 1 lacerated spleen 1-0 McNair 8 2003 - 16 (15) 2003 - 16 (15) 1 cracked bone spur in left ankle; strained right calf 1-0 O'Donnell 4 2003 - 17 (16) 2003 - 17 (16) 1 * 1-0 McNair 9 2003 - WC (17) 2004 - 3 (3) 5 bruised sternum 2-3 Volek 2 2004 - 4 (4) 2004 - 4 (4) 1 * 0-1 McNair 10 2004 - 5 (5) 2004 - 7 (7) 3 bruised sternum 1-2 Volek 3 2004 - 8 (8) 2004 - 10 (9) 2 * 1-1 McNair 11 2004 - 11 (10) 2004 - 12 (11) 2 bruised sternum 1-1 Volek 4 2004 - 13 (12) 2004 - 17 (16) 5 * 1-4 McNair 12 2005 - 1 (1) 2005 - 6 (6) 6 stiff back; sore ankle 2-4 Volek (5) 2005 - 7 (7) 2005 - 7 (7) 1 * 0-1 McNair 13 2005 - 8 (8) 2005 - 16 (15) 8 sore right pectoral 2-6 Matt Mauck 2005 - 17 (16) 2005 - 17 (16) 1 McNair traded to Ravens in June; Collins signed in late August 0-1 Kerry Collins 2006 - 1 (1) 2006 - 3 (3) 3 ineffective; Young drafted 2006 #3 overall 0-3 Vince Young 2006 - 4 (4) 2007 - 6 (5) 18 strained quadriceps 11-7 Collins 2 2007 - 7 (6) 2007 - 7 (6) 1 * 1-0 Young 2 2007 - 8 (7) 2008 - 1 (1) 12 sprained left knee; mental instability 7-5 Collins 3 2008 - 2 (2) 2009 - 6 (6) 22 ineffective 12-10 Young 3 2009 - 8 (7) 2010 - 6 (6) 16 sprained left knee 12-4 Collins 4 2010 - 7 (7) 2010 - 7 (7) 1 * 1-0 Young 4 2010 - 8 (8) 2010 - 8 (8) 1 sprained left ankle 0-1 Collins 5 2010 - 10 (9) 2010 - 10 (9) 1 injured calf 0-1 Young 5 2010 - 11 (10) 2010 - 11 (10) 1 torn flexor tendon in right thumb 0-1 Rusty Smith 2010 - 12 (11) 2010 - 12 (11) 1 * 0-1 Collins 6 2010 - 13 (12) 2010 - 17 (16) 5 "retired" in July; Titans signed Hasselbeck 1-4 Matt Hasselbeck 2011 - 1 (1) 2011 - 17 (16) 16 lost 2012 training camp battle 9-7 Jake Locker 2012 - 1 (1) 2012 - 4 (4) 4 injured left shoulder 1-3 Hasselbeck 2 2012 - 5 (5) 2012 - 9 (9) 5 * 2-3 Locker 2 2012 - 10 (10) 2013 - 4 (4) 11 injured right knee/right hip 6-5 Ryan Fitzpatrick 2013 - 5 (5) 2013 - 6 (6) 2 * 0-2 Locker 3 2013 - 7 (7) 2013 - 10 (9) 3 injured right foot 1-2 Fitzpatrick 2 2013 - 11 (10) 2013 - 17 (16) 7 * 3-4 Locker 4 2014 - 1 (1) 2014 - 3 (3) 3 injured right thumb 1-2 Charlie Whitehurst 2014 - 4 (4) 2014 - 4 (4) 1 * 0-1 Locker 5 2014 - 5 (5) 2014 - 5 (5) 1 injured right wrist 0-1 Whitehurst 2 2014 - 6 (6) 2014 - 7 (7) 2 ineffective 1-1 Zach Mettenberger 2014 - 8 (8) 2014 - 14 (13) 6 injured right shoulder 0-6 Locker 6 2014 - 15 (14) 2014 - 15 (14) 1 dislocated left shoulder 0-1 Whitehurst 3 2014 - 16 (15) 2014 - 17 (16) 2 Mariota drafted #2 overall 0-2 Marcus Mariota 2015 - 1 (1) 2015 - 6 (5) 5 sprained left MCL 1-4 Mettenberger 2 2015 - 7 (6) 2015 - 8 (7) 2 * 0-2 Mariota 2 2015 - 9 (8) 2015 - 15 (14) 7 sprained right MCL 2-5 Mettenberger 3 2015 - 16 (15) 2015 - 17 (16) 2 * 0-2 Mariota 3 2016 - 1 (1) 2016 - 16 (15) 15 broken right fibula 8-7 Matt Cassel 2016 - 17 (16) 2016 - 17 (16) 1 1-0 * Normal starter returned from injury/rest. 1 Dickey broke and dislocated both his left hip and leg in the 1972 preseason. 2 Pastorini shoved Houston Post reporter Dale Robertson through a locker-room door the Thursday before the 1979 AFC Championship Game. 3 Stabler "retired" in July 1981 but returned to the Oilers when Nielsen was injured during preseason.