page_title: Journeyman quarterback
hierarchical_section_title: Journeyman quarterback
caption_attribution_description: English: San Francisco 49ers quarterback J. T. O'Sullivan scanning the field in a 2008 preseason game against the Green Bay Packers.
context_page_description: A journeyman quarterback, in professional American football, is a quarterback who plays short stints for several teams over a career. Such a player is typically signed to year-by-year contracts, and may be signed by a team to fill in for an injured starter. The term journeyman is normally pejorative.
  The journeyman quarterback term is descriptive and subjective rather than definitive, and players may begin their careers as established franchise player before becoming journeymen later in their careers. Dave Krieg enjoyed a stable 11-year career with the Seattle Seahawks, before leaving through Plan B free agency, and then played for five different teams over the remaining seven years of his career. Similarly, Mark Rypien played for seven years with the Washington Redskins before playing for seven different teams for a single season each over the remainder of his career.
context_section_description: A journeyman quarterback, in professional American football, is a quarterback who plays short stints for several teams over a career.  Such a player is typically signed to year-by-year contracts, and may be signed by a team to fill in for an injured starter.  The term journeyman is normally pejorative.
  The journeyman quarterback term is descriptive and subjective rather than definitive, and players may begin their careers as established franchise player before becoming journeymen later in their careers.  Dave Krieg enjoyed a stable 11-year career with the Seattle Seahawks, before leaving through Plan B free agency, and then played for five different teams (usually as a starter) over the remaining seven years of his career. Similarly, Mark Rypien played for seven years with the Washington Redskins (including a Super Bowl MVP performance in Super Bowl XXVI) before playing for seven different teams for a single season each over the remainder of his career (and several years later briefly coming out of retirement for an indoor team in Rochester).
caption: J. T. O'Sullivan spent time with thirteen professional teams during his career.
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