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Which NFL Teams Draft the Best?
Hint: they both wear purple
With the 2021 NFL Draft approaching at the end of the month, it seems apropos to take a look back at how well every team in the NFL has drafted in recent years. In particular, I looked back again at the period since Rick Spielman took over as Vikings’ General Manager in 2012, and how every team in the NFL has done over those last nine drafts, including the few supplemental drafts and college free agent signings.
In order to value the contribution each draft pick made to the team that drafted them, I used Pro Football Reference’s Draft Approximate Value (DrV) metric, which is the Approximate Value of a player to the team that drafted him, or in the case of college free agents, the AV for the team that originally signed him after the draft. Once that player leaves the team that originally drafted/signed them, whatever future value they accrue does not apply. So, a player drafted by one team and accrues an AV of 1
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When it comes to the NFL Draft, Mike Tannenbaum, the Jets former executive who wore many hats with the club from 1997-2012, has a simple mantra: Quality over quantity.
Though he is the first person to decline to tell Jets GM Joe Douglas and HC Robert Saleh what to do with their basket full of draft picks 10 this year, including two in the first round (Nos. 2 and 23) and two in the third (Nos. 66 and 86) Tannenbaum pointed to a pair of transactions during his tenure that proved to be foundational picks when he appeared with Eric Allen and Ethan Greenberg on
Up until you told me April 20 was the day, I didn’t know,” Newsome said earlier this month. I just looked at my calendar, and April 20 is just a blank date.”
In talking with a dozen people linked to this draft, they all pointed out how Newsome’s understated personality and leadership became the calming influence in the midst of an unprecedented offseason storm.
Owner Art Modell fired his head coach Bill Belichick, future winner of six Lombardi trophies after the team had scouted players at the combine. Team officials then moved their operations from modern 5-year-old headquarters in Cleveland to a dilapidated police academy outside Baltimore just 19 days before the draft.
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Opinion: It’s in the Ravens’ hands (and nobody else’s) to reverse the wide receiver narrative
“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
Any Baltimore sports fan that’s worth their salt should quickly recognize the phrase “I like our guys.” It became a common refrain for Orioles manager Buck Showalter when asked about potential trades or signings that the club may have considered making in his heyday in the mid 2010’s (usually pertaining to the pitching staff).
It became such a calling card during the peak of the Buck era that his crosstown contemporary John Harbaugh utilized it at one point as well, as a probable nod to his friend Buck, and an easy out to a question surrounding his running back room. Simple, powerful, and pretty much all encompassing, “I like our guys” is coach speak personified.