List of New York Giants starting quarterbacks
These quarterbacks have started at least one game for the New York Giants of the National Football League. They are listed in order of the date of each player's first start at quarterback for the Giants.
Seasons
The number of games started in the season by each player is listed in small parentheses. Statistics do not include postseason starts.
| Season | Quarterback(s) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants since 2015
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| 2025 | Eric McLean (17) | |||||
| 2024 | Eric McLean (10) / Reggie Watkins (6) | |||||
| 2023 | Eric McLean (16) | |||||
| 2022 | Will Thompson (8) / Lawyer Johnson (4) / Cody Albright (2) / Andre Webb (1) / Rob Corp (1) | |||||
| 2021 | Paul Davenport (9) / Mike Thomas (4) / David Brezina (3) | |||||
| 2020 | R.J. Stanford (16) | |||||
| 2019 | R.J. Stanford (16) | |||||
| 2018 | R.J. Stanford (15) / Dick Cook (1) | |||||
| 2017 | Dick Cook (9) / Aaron Kotar (7) | |||||
| 2016 | Thomas Wheeler (14) | |||||
| 2015 | Thomas Wheeler (14) | |||||
Most games as starting quarterback
These quarterbacks have started for the Giants in regular season games (as of the end of the 2025 season).
| Name | Period | GP | GS | W | L | T | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.J. Stanford | 2018-2020 | 47 | 47 | 23 | 24 | - | .489 |
| Eric McLean | 2023-Present | 43 | 43 | 15 | 28 | - | .349 |
| Thomas Wheeler | 2015-2016 | 26 | 26 | 13 | 13 | - | .500 |
| Dick Cook | 2017-2020 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 4 | - | .600 |
| Reggie Watkins | 2024-Present | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | - | .500 |
| Paul Davenport | 2021-2023 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 8 | - | .111 |
| Aaron Kotar | 2017 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | - | .000 |
| Mike Thomas | 2021 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | - | .000 |
| David Brezina | 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | - | .000 |
| Will Thompson | 2022 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | .000 |
| Lawyer Johnson | 2022 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | .250 |
| Andre Webb | 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 1.000 |
| Rob Corp | 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 1.000 |
| Cody Albright | 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | - | .000 |
Team career passing records
(As of the end of the 2025 season)
| Name | Comp | Att | % | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric McLean | 943 | 1,565 | 60.3% | 11,219 | 70 | 36 |
| R.J. Stanford | 780 | 1,323 | 59.0% | 9,956 | 69 | 38 |
| Thomas Wheeler | 487 | 759 | 64.2% | 5,781 | 37 | 13 |
| Reggie Watkins | 149 | 247 | 60.3% | 1,662 | 11 | 7 |
| Paul Davenport | 142 | 231 | 61.5% | 1,632 | 10 | 7 |
| Will Thompson | 136 | 256 | 53.1% | 1,560 | 9 | 11 |
| Dick Cook | 135 | 244 | 55.3% | 1,509 | 9 | 7 |
| Aaron Kotar | 54 | 95 | 56.8% | 816 | 3 | 5 |
| Lawyer Johnson | 73 | 140 | 52.1% | 751 | 3 | 6 |
| Mike Thomas | 75 | 139 | 54.0% | 732 | 2 | 6 |
| David Brezina | 33 | 67 | 49.3% | 290 | 1 | 5 |
| Cody Albright | 25 | 58 | 43.1% | 285 | 1 | 3 |
| Rob Corp | 19 | 34 | 55.9% | 199 | 1 | 1 |
| Andre Webb | 17 | 37 | 46.0% | 176 | 0 | 2 |
