Yep, seems we are. I guess I could see the point if you have more than one QB that you trust and a ton of weapons surrounding them, but for me you are resigning to that player being expendable. It happens too often, running or not, to not be recognized as an increased risk.
maybe in the past - and maybe it shortens the career lengths of the successful guys from 15 years to 10 but there is now a collection of exciting and effective running qbs in the NFL and a whole host of others for whom escapability is a major part of their game too
Cam Newton
Russell Wilson
Deshaun Watson
Marcus Mariota
Tyrod Taylor
Alex Smith
Andrew Luck
Dak Prescott
Ryan Tannehill
Jacoby Brissett
Blaine Gabbert
Colin Kaepernick (not sure if he counts anymore)
Robert Griffin III
Deshone Kizer
these guys are for sure thought of as running qbs but i think you could say that the following list also contains guys who you expect to run when they can:
Blake Bortles
Andy Dalton
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Case Keenum
Trevor Siemian
Mitch Trubisky
Patrick Mahomes
Jimmy Garropolo
Josh McCown
Aaron Rodgers
and at least 3 of the top 5 qbs (and probably 4 tbh) would fit on these 2 lists and these lists are by no means complete
running of course increases the risk of injury to a player but it also inordinately opens up the offence to be more effective in so many other ways even when said qb doesnt actually run
i just can never see adding a threat to a qb's game as an overall negative - there's risk on every play and players get injured in non-contact all the time too - and jackson's rarely gonna get lit up with the new helmet rules as long as he learns not to power finish his runs head on - if he learns to slide he negates so much of the risk - and when joe flacco's 2 major injuries in his career have come from his own lineman rolling up on him in the pocket and an offseason pre-training-camp-non-contact-off-facility-workout-session there's not really a worse place in terms of qb injury happenstances to be coming from lol...