page_title: List of Minnesota Vikings starting quarterbacks
section_title: Starting quarterbacks by season
hierarchical_section_title: List of Minnesota Vikings starting quarterbacks / Starting quarterbacks by season
caption_attribution_description: English: Daunte Culpepper.
context_page_description: The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. 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. 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 36 starting quarterbacks in the history of their franchise; they have never had more than three starting quarterbacks in one season. 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. As of the 2019 season, Minnesota's starting quarterback is Kirk Cousins.
caption: Daunte Culpepper was the Vikings' starting quarterback for six seasons from 2000 to 2005.
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