Key points from the chart
- The chart has one column of dots for each of the 34 quarterbacks who had won a Super Bowl when it was made in early 2025, with one dot for every NFL season they played.
- Tom Brady stands out with 23 seasons, 7 Super Bowl wins and 3 losses.
- Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw follow with 4 wins each and no losses, then Patrick Mahomes and Troy Aikman with 3.
- Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas and Len Dawson each played 9 or 10 seasons before the first Super Bowl, shown as grey dots.
- Most winners won early or in mid career. Johnny Unitas (season 15), John Elway (seasons 15 and 16) and Peyton Manning (season 17) won late.
The Super Bowl QB stats chart in text
Title: “Super Bowl winning Quarterbacks: number of total seasons and number of Super Bowl wins”. The vertical axis, “SEASONS IN NFL”, runs from 0 to 24 with the first season at the bottom and the last at the top. Legend: a circle for each season played; a gold circle for a season that ended in a Super Bowl win; a circle with an X for a Super Bowl loss; a grey circle for seasons “before the Super Bowl began in 1966”; and a gold number above each column for total Super Bowl wins. Patrick Mahomes’s eighth and latest season carries a gold question mark because that season’s Super Bowl had not yet been played.
Sorting note on the graphic: “Sorting left to right by 1) SB wins, 2) SBs started, 3) when SB wins and SB starts are tied, I sort by looks (hottest left to right)”. Footer: “u/JPAnalyst | @jaydpauley.bsky.social” and “Source: Pro-Football-Reference.com”.
The table lists every column from left to right. Season numbers count from each player’s first NFL season, as on the chart.
| Quarterback (label) | Super Bowl wins | Seasons shown | Won in season | Lost in season | Seasons before the Super Bowl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Brady (T.Brady) | 7 | 23 | 2, 4, 5, 15, 17, 19, 21 | 8, 12, 18 | none |
| Joe Montana (J.Montana) | 4 | 15 | 3, 6, 10, 11 | none | none |
| Terry Bradshaw (T.Bradshaw) | 4 | 14 | 5, 6, 9, 10 | none | none |
| Patrick Mahomes (P.Mahomes) | 3 | 8 | 3, 6, 7 | 4 | none |
| Troy Aikman (T.Aikman) | 3 | 12 | 4, 5, 7 | none | none |
| John Elway (J.Elway) | 2 | 16 | 15, 16 | 4, 5, 7 | none |
| Roger Staubach (R.Staubach) | 2 | 11 | 3, 9 | 7, 10 | none |
| Peyton Manning (P.Manning) | 2 | 17 | 9, 17 | 12, 15 | none |
| Bob Griese (B.Griese) | 2 | 14 | 6, 7 | 5 | none |
| Ben Roethlisberger (B.Roethlisberger) | 2 | 18 | 2, 5 | 7 | none |
| Bart Starr (B.Starr) | 2 | 16 | 11, 12 | none | 1 to 10 |
| Eli Manning (E.Manning) | 2 | 16 | 4, 8 | none | none |
| Jim Plunkett (J.Plunkett) | 2 | 15 | 9, 12 | none | none |
| Kurt Warner (K.Warner) | 1 | 12 | 2 | 4, 11 | none |
| Len Dawson (L.Dawson) | 1 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 1 to 9 |
| Russell Wilson (R.Wilson) | 1 | 13 | 2 | 3 | none |
| Joe Theismann (J.Theismann) | 1 | 12 | 9 | 10 | none |
| Brett Favre (B.Favre) | 1 | 20 | 6 | 7 | none |
| Joe Namath (J.Namath) | 1 | 13 | 4 | none | 1 |
| Johnny Unitas (J.Unitas) | 1 | 18 | 15 | none | 1 to 10 |
| Joe Flacco (J.Flacco) | 1 | 17 | 5 | none | none |
| Steve Young (S.Young) | 1 | 15 | 10 | none | none |
| Drew Brees (D.Brees) | 1 | 20 | 9 | none | none |
| Nick Foles (N.Foles) | 1 | 11 | 6 | none | none |
| Aaron Rodgers (A.Rodgers) | 1 | 20 | 6 | none | none |
| Matthew Stafford (M.Stafford) | 1 | 16 | 13 | none | none |
| Trent Dilfer (T.Dilfer) | 1 | 13 | 7 | none | none |
| Brad Johnson (B.Johnson) | 1 | 15 | 9 | none | none |
| Jeff Hostetler (J.Hostetler) | 1 | 12 | 5 | none | none |
| Mark Rypien (M.Rypien) | 1 | 11 | 4 | none | none |
| Doug Williams (D.Williams) | 1 | 9 | 7 | none | none |
| Phil Simms (P.Simms) | 1 | 14 | 7 | none | none |
| Jim McMahon (J.McMahon) | 1 | 15 | 4 | none | none |
| Ken Stabler (K.Stabler) | 1 | 15 | 7 | none | none |
Reading the seasons and wins
The chart counts Super Bowls that a quarterback started. Wikipedia’s list of Super Bowl starting quarterbacks gives the same records for the players with losses: Brady 7 and 3, Elway 2 and 3, Staubach 2 and 2, and Mahomes 3 and 2 once his loss in Super Bowl LIX is included [2]. Unitas’s column has no loss because Earl Morrall started Super Bowl III for the Baltimore Colts [2].
The first Super Bowl was played after the 1966 season, between Bart Starr’s Green Bay Packers and Len Dawson’s Kansas City Chiefs [2]. That is why both of their columns begin with a block of grey dots. Joe Namath has a single grey dot and won Super Bowl III, after the 1968 season, in his fourth season on the chart [2].
Late wins stand out in the upper half of the chart. Peyton Manning’s second win is the top dot of his 17 season column, and Johnny Unitas won Super Bowl V after the 1970 season, his 15th on the chart [2].
Notes on this infographic
- Out of date since February 2025. The chart was posted on 31 January 2025, before Super Bowl LIX. Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles won that game against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, and Sam Darnold won Super Bowl LX with the Seattle Seahawks [2]. Mahomes’s question mark is therefore a loss, and Hurts and Darnold are winning quarterbacks who are not on the chart.
- Abbreviated names. The graphic uses initials, so the table adds full names.
- Joe Flacco. A thin vertical line joins the top two dots of his column. The chart does not explain it.
- Sorting. The final tiebreak, sorting “by looks”, is the creator’s joke and says nothing about the players’ records.
Sources
- u/JPAnalyst (Jayd Pauley), [OC] Chart: Super Bowl winning quarterbacks, r/nfl, 31 January 2025.
- Wikipedia, List of Super Bowl starting quarterbacks.
- Pro Football Reference, Super Bowl history, the data source named on the graphic.
Last reviewed 30 October 2026
