Rookie scale era is different, but then there's no more incentive to start a rookie in that era than not.
You have them for 5 years if they are 1st rounders in the new CBA. Either way, at one point or another, if you're going to keep a starting qb, he is going to cost around 20 M a year after either the 4th or 5th year.
Most teams that pick qbs high are rebuilding so they are in a position where they don't have anyone else anyway plus they can live with the losing that comes with rookie qbs starting (and it's the vast majority of them).
Either way there's nothing in any of this data which says which way is inherently better---sitting a rookie qb or starting him week 1. As I said the historical evidence is that both approaches work.
The fact that there is a trend since the new CBA doesn't change that fact. Both approaches work.
You may LIKE one more than the other, but there's no evidence or argument that indicates one approach is automatically superior.
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