Never before have there been six quarterbacks taken in the top 12 picks in the NFL draft. I did a short study on this earlier this year, but this will go deeper into the stats - what have other highly drafted rookie QBs done recently. Gone are the days when even highly drafted QBs get a year to sit behind a veteran. With three exceptions (discussed later), if you are taken in the top half of the first round as a QB, you start immediately.
First we need to guess whether all six of the QBs taken in the top 12 will start as rookies.