Perhaps it was out of frustration and a desperate attempt to score, but first-string quarterbacks generally don't play this much in a preseason opener.

The depth chart had Dalton listed as the first-string quarterback, followed by Gradkowski.

Marino may go to Minnesota, where he could play first-string quarterback, apparently no longer an option for him after 17 years in Miami.

"I think I'll make him first-string quarterback."

You don't want to go in and they're thinking, well, the first-string quarterback went down.

He started the season as the first-string quarterback, but then got injured and played inconsistently.

Plummer, the first-string quarterback, who missed a month with a hand injury, had practiced regularly the previous week.

"It's like the first-string quarterback sitting on the bench and watching the second-string quarterback win the game."

The football coach had made him first-string quarterback the season before and was bound to do so again.

As the first-string quarterback he was in superb physical shape.