Mike Greenberg on 1530 today.

[Murdock2420]

(04-20-2021, 11:28 PM)Burma Wrote: I was actually really surprised at how abysmal the success rate of 1st round WR has been. I read this thread and started to do a bit more digging.  I assume I was influenced by the success of the 2020 1st round WRs, but once I started to look at this it was shocking how much of an outlier that class was. I found this particularly shocking, bear in mind this was up to the 2020 draft

• 19 of the 77 wide receivers taken in the first round this century have or had fewer than 100 career receptions in the NFL.
  

This was also interesting:


Sources:
https://www.milehighreport.com/2020/4/23/21232643/success-rate-of-first-round-wide-receivers-this-century

https://football.pitcherlist.com/pessimists-guide-to-the-nfl-draft/

Good stuff!

While every prospect in the draft is a gamble, it is really easy to see that WR is the hardest gamble to predict correctly.