Seattle Seahawks: 15 greatest quarterbacks in franchise history

Hello, 12s. We have two more quarterbacks on this list who were decent but not truly among the really good quarterbacks in Seahawks lore. The first of those two is Jon Kitna. Kitna immediately followed Mirer’s time in Seattle. Kitna did not start until his third year in the league, though.

Kitna was signed as an undrafted free agent by then-Seattle coach Dennis Erickson in 1996. For the next season, he was on Seattle’s practice squad and then played in NFL Europe. But he returned to be Warren Moon‘s backup for the 1997 season and a lot of 1998 as well. Kitna, however, started the last five games of 1998 and did enough to have Seattle make him the full-time starter in 1999 and a lot of 2000.

In 1998, Kitna went 3-2 for a Seattle team that finished 8-8. When Kitna became the starter in 1999, he led the team to an 8-7 record and missed one game. He threw for 3,346 yards and 23 touchdowns that season. His average yard per catch to his receivers was what would be a career-high for him at 12.4.

Kitna went on to play for three more teams after leaving Seattle, including starting 46 games for the Bengals. But Kitna would have never had an NFL career had Seattle not taken a chance on him.