Ranking All NFL Teams 5-year Success by Draft Class

[Benton]

(11-21-2017, 06:00 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The PFF ratings are nothing like the Madden rankings. They are comparable to wins above replacement in baseball. They look at actual production.

They bridge the gap between statements like: We draft great because we have 38 drafted guys on the roster! and Actual production of those guys.

When you look at actual production on the field of draft picks over the last 5 years...we're 26th. BEHIND Cleveland.

Does anyone argue this? Eifert is our best player drafted over the past 5 years. Eifert. He's basically missed the equivalent of 2 seasons.

Yeah, because a big chunk of that production has been from guys drafted before then.

you're comparing impact players and plug in starters that lifted down teams/rebuilding teams like the Cowboys and GB to teams that have't changed positions as much in five years. Look at the playmakers who play the biggest chunks — Geno, Burfict, AD, AJ, Dunlap, MJ, Jones, etc — they're 7+ years guys. Even many of the situational/depth/rotation guys — Huber, LaFell, VRey, Winston, A Smith — are getting near double digits. 

We've had a couple horrific drafts, but looking at the last five years as a snapshot works if your team has been rebuilding. Ours hasn't, they've been trying to patch up. A list like this might be worth looking at in a few years, but it's really slanted in favor of teams that were in rough shape several years ago and recently had picks pay dividends.