01-18-2016, 03:14 PM
(01-18-2016, 02:48 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: If you were to go and average out the rounds in which each team's starting guards were drafted I'd be willing to bet that it would come up somewhere between rounds 3-5. Developing a mid round guard to be an adequate starter isn't all that unique. In fact, it's probably commonplace.
I don't think you should make that bet without educating yourself a little better.
Accoring to ProFootballReference.com here are the number of combined "seasons as a starter" by OGs taken in the draft since 2010. The first column is the OGs taken in the first three rounds. The second column is the number by OGs taken later in the draft.
2015............4.......0
2014............7.......1
2013............14.....0
2012............16.....3
2011............9.......6 (4 of which are Boling)
2010............20.....3
So if you remove Boling from the numbers, OGs taken in the first three rounds have accumulated 70 seasons as starters while players taken in the 4th round and later have 9.
