Dallas Cowboys: Top 15 Quarterbacks All-Time

Dallas Cowboys Greatest Quarterbacks: Number Seven –  Eddie LeBaron (1960-63, 28 starts)

The very first starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys played four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys after they traded two draft picks for the former Washington Redskins signal caller.

Eddie LeBaron made 28 starts for the Cowboys from 1960-63, with 20 of those starts coming in his first two seasons with the franchise, starting ten games in each. In ’60, the Cowboys went 0-9-1, as the roster wasn’t near a who’s who of players. LeBaron finished that first Cowboys season with 1,736 passing yards with 12 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.

LeBaron was a good choice by the Cowboys to help get them through the lean years of the start of the franchise

The quarterback followed that first Cowboys season with 1,741 yards, 120 completions and a completion percentage of 50.8 percent. In his starts that season, the Cowboys went 2-8, and in his four seasons with the franchise in his aforementioned 28 starts, the Cowboys were 4-21-1.

That was the final time LeBaron was a full-time starter for the Cowboys, as he made a combined eight starts the next two seasons.

LeBaron was a good choice by the Cowboys to help get them through the lean years of the start of the franchise while Don Meredith learned how to become an NFL quarterback. Though he didn’t gain many wins, the Cowboys wouldn’t have become the franchise they did without LeBaron leading the Cowboys in years where the franchise itself was learning how to walk as well and taking a lot of lumps along the way.

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