I’ll start with this: Thank you. That you’re firing off so many questions to me in mid-June shows your passion for the sport, and I love seeing that. Here are some answers for you …
From Michael Crane (@MikeJCzapla): Do you think that the Green Bay Packers sitting their QB behind a veteran winner for several years is a move more teams should do? Why can’t the Bears figure it out?
Michael, you may have seen my chart before on when first-round quarterbacks make their first start. Things really turned in this regard after Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco led playoff teams as rookies in 2008. Including that year, and running up to last year’s rookie class, there were 48 first-round quarterbacks taken over 16 draft cycles.
