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Will The Cardinals Trade Josh Rosen?

Four months ago, this headline would have been unthinkable. But now the rumors are swirling that the Cardinals are interested in drafting Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray with the first overall pick… and also trading Josh Rosen, last year’s first round pick.

I’m short on time today and will try to add more on this later. But for now, I’ll open this up to the crowd:

1) What should the Cardinals do?

2) What do you think the Cardinals will do?

The graph below shows all quarterbacks drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft from 1967 (the start of the common draft) through 2014. For each quarterback, I’ve shown how many starts that quarterback had with the team that drafted him (although for John Elway, Eli Manning, and Philip Rivers, I used the Broncos, Giants, and Chargers, since that feels more appropriate for this study).

Two quarterbacks drafted in the late ’80s — Kelly Stouffer and Jim Everett — were traded after lengthy holdouts and never started a game with the teams that drafted them. Only 21 of the 113 quarterbacks drafted in the first round failed to start 16 games with the teams that drafted them; those quarterbacks are shown in red dots.

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