McCown joining list of Saints starting quarterbacks
When Luke McCown takes the Saints’ first offensive snap Sunday in Charlotte, he will join a select group of quarterbacks to have started a game in the 49-year history of the franchise.
McCown will become the 30th starting QB in franchise history, but only the sixth since 2000. In the last 16 seasons, Aaron Brooks and Drew Brees have started all but 15 games for New Orleans.
The consistency of the starting quarterbacks since the turn of the century comes in sharp contrast to the final three years of the 1990s, when New Orleans trotted out six different starters under Mike Ditka.
Quarterbacks making their first start in a Saints uniform are 9-20. Archie Manning, in 1971, was the first quarterback to win his first start as a Saint. Brees is the most recent, in 2006.
The full list of starting quarterbacks in franchise history, with the number of career starts for the Saints, the year of their first start and the result of their first start.
| Name | Starts | 1st Start | Result |
| Gary Cuozzo | 10 | 1967 | L |
| Billy Kilmer | 39 | 1967 | L |
| Karl Sweetan | 3 | 1968 | L |
| Ed Hargett | 8 | 1970 | L |
| Archie Manning | 129 | 1971 | W |
| Bobby Scott | 14 | 1973 | L |
| Larry Cipa | 3 | 1974 | W |
| Bobby Douglass | 8 | 1976 | L |
| Dave Wilson | 31 | 1981 | L |
| Ken Stabler | 22 | 1982 | L |
| Richard Todd | 14 | 1984 | L |
| Bobby Hebert | 75 | 1985 | L |
| John Fourcade | 11 | 1987 | W |
| Steve Walsh | 19 | 1990 | L |
| Mike Buck | 1 | 1993 | L |
| Wade Wilson | 14 | 1993 | W |
| Jim Everett | 47 | 1994 | L |
| Doug Nussmeier | 2 | 1996 | L |
| Billy Joe Hobert | 12 | 1997 | W |
| Heath Shuler | 9 | 1997 | L |
| Danny Wuerffel | 6 | 1997 | L |
| Kerry Collins | 7 | 1998 | W |
| Billy Joe Tolliver | 11 | 1998 | L |
| Jake Delhomme | 2 | 1999 | W |
| Jeff Blake | 11 | 2000 | L |
| Aaron Brooks | 82 | 2000 | W |
| Todd Bouman | 3 | 2005 | L |
| Drew Brees | 145 | 2006 | W |
| Mark Brunell | 1 | 2009 | L |
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