In the past year, two Hall of Fame NFL QBs Brett Favre and Peyton Manning who were 1 and 2 on the consecutive starts list stumbled over some injuries, which caused these streaks to end. Favre's streak formerly #1, now done at 297 straight starts towards the end of the 2010 and Manning could not catch him with neck surgeries all offseason falling victim to the injury bug and not playing Week 1 at Houston to kickoff the 2011 season. Kerry Collins started for the Colts who were smashed by a hungry Texans team 34-7 (led 34-0). Favre's streak began in 1992 and since then 238 QBs have started in the NFL and 17 of them once were Favre's backups themselves (Aaron Rodgers, Matt Hasselbeck). Joe Webb was the first QB to start in favor of Favre when he went down with injury last season.
Manning's streak ended at 208 games (227 games including playoffs), he started every game for the Colts since 1998 and the last QB until the streak recently ended to start in Indy was current 49ers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh. The torch has been passed Favre to Manning and Manning couldn't hold it very long as now it seems it falls in the hands of....
Eli Manning. Peyton's little brother keeps the Manning family atop the list with a active streak of 104 consecutive starts. Currently the longest active streak and the 6th longest streak in NFL history. The second longest streak resides in San Diego as Phillip Rivers is now up to 81 consecutive starts, tied for 13th all time with Trent Green.
By the end of the 2011 season if both players stay healthy Eli will be at 119 consecutivve starts and Rivers will be at 96 moving into the 3rd longest starts streak ever and Rivers will move into 7th just ahead of former Eagles legend Ron Jaworski (116).
Rivers would have to play 13 seasons more as a starting QB to catch Favre and Eli will need about 11.5 seasons to catch Favre. With all that said lets realize that the NFL without Favre and Peyton Manning isn't quite the same.
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