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Seattle Seahawks: 15 greatest quarterbacks in franchise history

By Lee Vowell

Seahawks Matt Hasselbeck during Super Bowl XL between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan on February 5, 2006. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/NFLPhotoLibrary)
Seahawks Matt Hasselbeck during Super Bowl XL between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan on February 5, 2006. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/NFLPhotoLibrary) /
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25 Oct 1987: Quarterback Dave Krieg of the Seattle Seahawks looks to pass the ball during a game against the Los Angeles Raiders at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The Seahawks won the game, 35-13.
25 Oct 1987: Quarterback Dave Krieg of the Seattle Seahawks looks to pass the ball during a game against the Los Angeles Raiders at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The Seahawks won the game, 35-13. /

. 1980-1991. Seattle Seahawks. Dave Krieg. 3. player. 36

Dave Krieg led the Seahawks to a lot of firsts. He was the first quarterback to lead Seattle to the playoffs (1983), the first to have a playoff win (again, 1983), the first Seattle quarterback to make the Pro Bowl (1984) and he led the NFL in touchdown percentage thrown per attempt three times. Krieg also threw 32 touchdown passes in 1984 which was the Seattle record for touchdowns in a season until Russell Wilson broke that in 2015.

Krieg’s Seattle teams went to the playoffs four times. Behind Wilson, Krieg has the second-best QBR of any Seattle quarterback with more than 14 career starts (82.3). And besides the best two quarterbacks in Seahawks history, Krieg is far above anyone else.

Krieg’s winning percentage trails just Wilson as Krieg went 70-49. He is third all-time in passing yards thrown (26,132) and until recently led the franchise in career touchdown passes thrown (195).

One of the problems for Krieg was that he let himself get sacked far too often. His sack percentage of 8.7 percent is much higher than Zorn’s or Hasselbeck’s and is less great than Wilson’s too. This even though Krieg arguably had better offensive lines than Wilson has had.

There is no doubt, however, that Dave Krieg is Seattle’s third-best quarterback in franchise lore and without him, Seattle would have struggled much more in the early years of the team’s past.

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