I’m reaching into the distant past here — 2014 — to resurrect an article that was published by fivethirtyeight.com.
The article did a great job of putting together information from a number of statistical studies of NFL draft success. It looked at the information in many ways: the success of individual players versus draft position, the success rates of teams, the success of specific GMs or personnel executives, and so on.
I want to share a few ideas from that article, and discuss what they mean for NFL teams in general, and, perhaps, the Redskins in particular.