Julio Buckley will begin his HOF career in 2012. Clearly the best in his organization, and perhaps the league. This kid is the real deal.

 

1st rounders since 1980. (I think this is correct)

Newton
Bradford
Stafford
Sanchez
Ryan
Flacco
Boller
Carr
Manning
Leaf
Bledsoe
Mirer
George
Aikman
Elway

Not sure what 2nd rounders outside of Opie.

 

Rothlisberger
Flacco
Ryan
Stafford
Sanchez
Cam newton

 

If my memory is correct, Roethlisberger didn't start Week 1.

 

Your memory's correct. Roethlisberger didn't start until week 3.

 

Tommy Maddox, right?

 

Yeah. He started the first two games and either got injured or turned back into a pumpkin, I forget which.

 

I'll go with the latter.

 

Impressive list almost every one of them have or still are playing at a high level.

 

Jay Cutler too.

 

You're missing guys. Guys like Heath Shuler. Need to go look up each draft year.

 

Because its an incomplete list. Looks like he went off guys he remembers. We tend to remember QBs who played awhile, ie succeeded. He's missing the failures like Heath Shuler and others. Tim Couch also comes to mind. Plenty of first round QBs start and fail.

Disregard the list until it's actually complete and accurate, or you'll draw wrong conclusions.

 

little silly to discount QBs who started week 2 or 3 their rookie season. e.g. I believe Tim Couch started week 2, he should be on this list.

 

If week 2 and 3 counts, then Jamarcus Russell would be there too I believe.

 

Pro Football Reference is a pretty good avenue for this.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi

I don't think you can explicitly search for rookie quarterbacks starting the first game of the season, but you can search for rookies who started all 16 games

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&year_min=1920&year_max=2012&season_start=1&season_end=1&age_min=0&age_max=99&draft_round_min=0&draft_round_max=99&league_id=&team_id=&is_active=&is_hof=&pos_is_qb=Y&c1stat=&c1comp=gt&c1val=&c2stat=gs&c2comp=gt&c2val=16&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pass_rating

There's 10 rookie quarterbacks who started all 16 games. What's interesting is that 5 of those guys have been drafted since 2008.

There are of course other guys who started week 1 but didn't play 16 games, like Mark Sanchez, but it's a bit difficult to catch without going through a case by case basis and I don't know that the original poster has the strength to read that far.