List of Minnesota Vikings starting quarterbacks
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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. The Vikings have had 43 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. 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. Sam Darnold was Minnesota's most recent starting quarterback, from 2024, until being signed by the Seattle Seahawks in 2025.