Football
This week. Aaron Rodgers finally decided to join the Pittsburgh Steelers, something that many football fans had been expecting for quite a while now. Rodgers has obviously been in the NFL for a very long time. In fact, he was drafted (now officially) over 20 years ago by the Green Bay Packers. It feels like even longer since Ted Thompson and Co. shocked Brett Favre with the decision the way that they did.
When we get to Week 1 there is no question that Rodgers will be the starting quarterback across the league with the most time served, but given that Pittsburgh is now his third team (in four years), he obviously is no longer a part of the team with which he made his mark and won his lone Super Bowl (now almost 15 years ago by the way).
There are several other quarterbacks in the league, starters and otherwise, who are longer in the tooth like Rodgers. Players like Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins and even Joe Flacco are still hanging around. Narrowing things a bit though, if we focus on which team has the longest-tenured starter in terms of time served with his specific team then as it has been for some time now the answer remains Dak Prescott.
It is rather wild to think that Prescott has been the Cowboys starting quarterback longer than any other quarterback has for their current team across the league, but that speaks to the turnover rate that we tend to see. Players who come close to him as far as still being with their teams are Patrick Mahomes with the Kansas City Chiefs (2017), Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills (2018) and Lamar Jackson with the Baltimore Ravens (2018).
Matthew Stafford represents a player with far more NFL experience than Dak, but he joined the Los Angeles Rams in 2021 which was five years after the Cowboys drafted Prescott. Similarly, Jared Goff technically has two days on Dak in terms of NFL experience as he was the number one overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, but he was a part of that Stafford trade and has been with the Detroit Lions for the last four years.
Time can be a funny thing in the NFL, but no starting quarterback has spent more of it with their current team than Dak Prescott has with the Dallas Cowboys.
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