List of most consecutive starts and games played by National Football League players
All-time starts
Table:
Rank

Player

Pos

Period

Teams

Consecutive starts

Playoffs

Total

References

1

Brett Favre

QB

9/27/1992 – 12/5/2010

GB/NYJ/MIN

297

24

321

[10][11]

2

Jim Marshall

DE

9/17/1961 – 12/16/1979

MIN

270

19

289

[12][13]

3

Mick Tingelhoff

C

9/16/1962 – 12/17/1978

MIN

240

19

259

[14][15]

4

Bruce Matthews

OL

11/29/1987 – 1/6/2002

OIL/TEN

229

15

244

[16][17]

5

Will Shields

RG

9/12/1993 – 12/31/2006

KC

223

8

231

[18][19]

6T

Alan Page

DT

10/8/1967 – 12/20/1981

MIN/CHI

215

19

234

[20][21]

Ronde Barber

DB

11/21/1999 – 12/30/2012

TB

215

9

224

[22][23]

London Fletcher

LB

11/12/2000 – 12/29/2013

SLR/BUF/WAS

215

6

221

[24][25]

9T

Jim Otto

C

9/11/1960 – 12/14/1974

OAK

210

13

223

[26][27]

Eli Manning

QB

11/24/2004 – 11/23/2017

NYG

210

12

222

[28][29]

11T

Derrick Brooks

LB

9/1/1996 – 12/28/2008

TB

208

11

219

[30][31]

Peyton Manning

QB

9/6/1998 – 1/2/2011

IND

208

19

227

[32][33]

Philip Rivers

QB

9/11/2006 – present

SD/LAC

208

11

219

[34][35]

14

Gene Upshaw

LG

9/10/1967 – 10/4/1981

OAK

207

24

231

[36][37]

15

Randall McDaniel

LG

10/22/1989 – 1/6/2002

MIN/TB

202

16

218

[38][39]

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