The following is an incomplete list of starting quarterbacks that have started a regular season or post-season game for the Edmonton Eskimos / Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). They are listed in order of appearance during the regular season or post-season, since 1993. Prior years do not include post-season starts and list number of starts from greatest to fewest.
Where known, the number of games they started during the season is listed to the right:
Quarterbacks are listed by number of starts for the Edmonton Eskimos / Elks. [1]
| Name | GS | W–L–T | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricky Ray | 148 | 79–68–1 | 3,225 | 4,827 | 66.8 | 40,531 | 210 | 130 |
| Jackie Parker | 100 | 71–27–2 | 769 | 1,484 | 51.8 | 12,137 | 70 | 93 |
| Tom Wilkinson | 98 | 65–27–6 | 1,382 | 2,251 | 61.4 | 18,684 | 129 | 96 |
| Michael Reilly | 94 | 53–41–0 | 2,120 | 3,195 | 66.4 | 26,929 | 143 | 82 |
| Tracy Ham | 77 | 52–25–0 | 1,216 | 2,333 | 52.1 | 19,240 | 142 | 89 |
| Warren Moon | 59 | 41–17–1 | 1,280 | 2,209 | 57.9 | 21,228 | 139 | 70 |
| Matt Dunigan | 56 | 34–21–1 | 926 | 1,654 | 56.0 | 13,393 | 87 | 76 |
| Damon Allen | 51 | 35–16–0 | 809 | 1,583 | 51.1 | 12,466 | 76 | 56 |
| Bruce Lemmerman | 41 | 27–12–2 | 754 | 1,383 | 54.5 | 9,747 | 60 | 73 |
| Jason Maas | 37 | 20–17–0 | 800 | 1,307 | 61.2 | 11,953 | 65 | 40 |
| Don Getty | 37 | 17–19–1 | 532 | 992 | 53.6 | 8,950 | 57 | 60 |
The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at Commonwealth Stadium. The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times, most recently in 2015 and the most of any CFL club based in Western Canada. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders. The team discontinued using the Eskimos name in 2020, with the new name Elks formally announced on June 1, 2021.
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