Every year since 2011, I’ve used a metric called the ‘Production Ratio’ to assess who the potential playmakers in the draft might be. The Production Ratio alerted us early to the likes of Kawann Short in 2013 or Aaron Donald in 2014.
As there are bound to be playmakers available to the Cowboys outside the first round, the Production Ratio can help us get an early indication of who those playmakers might be.
The Production Ratio was initially proposed by Pat Kirwan, and is really a very simple metric that adds up sacks and tackles-for-loss and divides the sum by the number of college games played.