SALT LAKE CITY — With the NFL draft a little less than a month away, KSL.com reflects on the 10-year draft arcs of each local university to discover which has produced not only the highest count of draft picks, but also which has provided the most marginal value.
Methodology: how to evaluate the success or failure of a draft pick relative to draft position
One of the best metrics for measuring a player’s impact relative to his NFL counterparts is Pro-Football-Reference’s Approximate Value (AV) rating, a measure developed by the site’s founder, Doug Drinen, in 2008.