Most Super Bowl Wins by a Quarterback

Tom Brady has the most Super Bowl wins of any quarterback, with seven. That is three more than the next names on the list, and it is also the most NFL championships ever won by a single player at any position.

Brady collected six of those rings with the New England Patriots and a seventh with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after leaving New England at age 43. No quarterback before him had more than four, so his total did not just break the record, it moved it out of reach for the foreseeable future.

Quarterbacks with the most Super Bowl wins

This table counts wins as the starting quarterback, which is how the record is normally kept. It runs through Super Bowl LX in February 2026.

Quarterback	Super Bowl wins	Super Bowls won
Tom Brady	7	XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII, LV
Joe Montana	4	XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV
Terry Bradshaw	4	IX, X, XIII, XIV
Patrick Mahomes	3	LIV, LVII, LVIII
Troy Aikman	3	XXVII, XXVIII, XXX
Bart Starr	2	I, II
Bob Griese	2	VII, VIII
Roger Staubach	2	VI, XII
Jim Plunkett	2	XV, XVIII
John Elway	2	XXXII, XXXIII
Ben Roethlisberger	2	XL, XLIII
Peyton Manning	2	XLI, 50
Eli Manning	2	XLII, XLVI

Why Brady’s seven stands apart

Montana and Bradshaw both retired on four, and for decades that looked like the natural ceiling for a quarterback. Montana’s four came without a single Super Bowl loss, a perfect 4-0 record, and he was named the game’s Most Valuable Player three times, still the most by any player. That combination of volume and flawlessness is part of why his four rings were long considered the gold standard before Brady rewrote it. Brady nearly doubled it. He also did it across an unusually long window: his first title came after the 2001 season and his last after the 2020 season, a 19-year gap between first and seventh ring.

The Tampa Bay win is the one that reframes the record. Winning six with one franchise and coaching staff is a dynasty; winning a seventh with a different team, in his first year there, is the part that separates his total from a purely system-driven run.

Starters, backups, and how rings are counted

The standard quarterback record counts games started, and by that measure Brady leads with seven. Rings themselves work differently. Every player on a winning roster receives one, so a backup who never plays a down still gets a ring identical to the starter’s.

That produces some quirks. Charlie Batch earned two rings backing up Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh without starting a Super Bowl. Counting rings rather than starts would reshuffle parts of any leaderboard, which is exactly why the starting-quarterback list is the one used for the record. When a stat lists a quarterback’s Super Bowl “wins,” it almost always means wins as the starter.

Quarterbacks who won with two different teams

Only two starting quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl with two different franchises, and both are on the list above. Tom Brady won six with New England and a seventh with Tampa Bay. Peyton Manning won Super Bowl XLI with the Indianapolis Colts and Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos, nine years apart, bookending his career with rings for two teams.

It is a short club because it asks a quarterback to reach the top with one organization and then rebuild that success somewhere else, usually later in a career when arm and roster are past their peak. Kurt Warner came close, winning Super Bowl XXXIV with the Rams and later reaching Super Bowl XLIII with the Cardinals, but he lost the second. Winning with two teams remains one of the game’s rarest quarterback feats.

The great quarterbacks with one ring, or none

The win count also flatters some careers and undersells others, because a Super Bowl is a team result as much as a quarterback one. Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees, two of the most productive passers in NFL history, won a single Super Bowl each, XLV and XLIV respectively. Dan Marino, often rated among the finest to ever throw a football, reached one Super Bowl early in his career, lost it, and never returned.

That is the honest limit of a wins-based list. It measures championships, not ability, and the two do not always line up. A quarterback can be great and ringless, or hold multiple rings largely thanks to the team around him.

Who could catch Brady

Patrick Mahomes is the only active quarterback with a realistic shot, and even he sits four rings back at three. To match seven he would need to win four more Super Bowls, which no quarterback has ever done from Mahomes’ current point in a career. He has already lost two Super Bowls as well, so the path is not clear.

What makes Mahomes the only real threat is how often he gets there. He has already reached five Super Bowls in his first stretch as a starter, winning three and losing two, a rate of appearances that mirrors Brady’s early pace. The problem is arithmetic. Even a quarterback who plays into his forties and reaches a Super Bowl every few years needs a near-perfect conversion rate to add four more wins, and Mahomes has shown he can lose them too.

The more likely outcome is that Brady’s seven stands for a generation. For the franchises that produced these quarterbacks, see which NFL team has the most Super Bowl wins, where the record is a tie rather than a single name. Brady alone owns more Super Bowl rings than every team except the Steelers and Patriots.