Season-by-season
Where known, the number of games they started during the season is listed to the right:
- * - Indicates that the number of starts is not known for that year for each quarterback
The following is an incomplete list of starting quarterbacks for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League that have started a regular season game for the team. This list includes postseason appearances since 1994, but does not include preseason games. They are listed in order of most starts with any tiebreaker being the date of each player's first start at quarterback for the Roughriders.
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 Saskatchewan Roughriders. [1]
| Name | GS | W–L–T | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Lancaster | 240 | 147–86–7 | 3,186 | 5,834 | 54.6 | 46,170 | 299 | 358 |
| Darian Durant | 113 | 58–54–1 | 2,226 | 3,584 | 62.1 | 28,507 | 149 | 99 |
| Kent Austin | 85 | 45–40–0 | 1,964 | 3,413 | 57.5 | 26,626 | 152 | 134 |
| Frank Tripucka | 82 | 38–39–5 | 1,011 | 1,785 | 56.6 | 14,387 | 83 | 122 |
| Tom Burgess | 46 | 20–26–0 | 827 | 1,634 | 50.6 | 11,850 | 74 | 74 |
| Cody Fajardo | 44 | 27–17–0 | 901 | 1,278 | 70.5 | 10,632 | 48 | 32 |
| Nealon Greene | 41 | 20–21–0 | 675 | 1,126 | 59.9 | 7,968 | 40 | 26 |
| Joe Paopao | 40 | 13–25–2 | 737 | 1,263 | 58.4 | 9,337 | 34 | 63 |
| Reggie Slack | 38 | 12–26–0 | 585 | 1,015 | 57.6 | 7,754 | 36 | 37 |
| Kevin Glenn | 36 | 15–21–0 | 659 | 1,047 | 62.9 | 8,435 | 40 | 40 |
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a professional Canadian football team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Roughriders at times compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West Division. The Roughriders were founded in 1910 as the Regina Rugby Club. Although Saskatchewan was not the first team to play football in Western Canada, the club has maintained an unbroken organizational continuity since their founding. The Roughriders are the fourth-oldest professional gridiron football team in existence today. The Roughriders are both the oldest professional sports team still in existence that continuously has been based in Western Canada and the oldest in North America to continuously have been based west of St. Louis, Missouri. The team changed their name to the Regina Roughriders in 1924, and to the current moniker in 1946. The Roughriders played their home games at historic Taylor Field from 1936 to 2016; in 2017, the team moved to the newly constructed Mosaic Stadium at Evraz Place.
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