Measuring a successful draft

[cowboyjoe]

Measuring a successful draft
10:14 AM Thu, Apr 09, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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I saw this on Mike Reiss's blog in The Boston Globe. Forbes has put together a list of the best and worst drafting teams over the last three years.

The best? Houston. The Texans have 85 percent of their draft picks still on their roster from the drafts in 2006-08.

The worst? New England with a little more than half of their picks still on its roster.

The Cowboys? They have 16 of their 22 draft picks over the last three years still on their roster.

I'm not sure the formula is the best way to judge a team. Of the six players no longer with the Cowboys in those drafts - Anthony Fasano, Skyler Green, Montavious Stanley, E.J. Whitley, James Marten, Erik Walden - only Whitley is out of the NFL.

Maybe it means the draft can be overrated. I don't know. Maybe it means it's harder for a draft pick to make a top-end team like New England and easier for a team that has hovered around .500.

Regardless, it's a talker. Have at it.

 

[Woods]

I do remember that at least one draft from NE a year or two ago was abysmal.

I don't think virtually anyone on that draft contributed in any way.

That draft may have skewed NE's report card.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Measuring a successful draft
10:14 AM Thu, Apr 09, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Todd Archer E-mail News tips

I saw this on Mike Reiss's blog in The Boston Globe. Forbes has put together a list of the best and worst drafting teams over the last three years.

The best? Houston. The Texans have 85 percent of their draft picks still on their roster from the drafts in 2006-08.

The worst? New England with a little more than half of their picks still on its roster.

This alone should prove how horribly flawed his methodology is.

 

[DFWJC]

Measuring a successful draft
10:14 AM Thu, Apr 09, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Todd Archer E-mail News tips

I saw this on Mike Reiss's blog in The Boston Globe. Forbes has put together a list of the best and worst drafting teams over the last three years.

The best? Houston. The Texans have 85 percent of their draft picks still on their roster from the drafts in 2006-08.

The worst? New England with a little more than half of their picks still on its roster.

The Cowboys? They have 16 of their 22 draft picks over the last three years still on their roster.

I'm not sure the formula is the best way to judge a team. Of the six players no longer with the Cowboys in those drafts - Anthony Fasano, Skyler Green, Montavious Stanley, E.J. Whitley, James Marten, Erik Walden - only Whitley is out of the NFL.

Maybe it means the draft can be overrated. I don't know. Maybe it means it's harder for a draft pick to make a top-end team like New England and easier for a team that has hovered around .500.

Regardless, it's a talker. Have at it.

Yes. Think about it....common sense tells us that it would be very hard for draft picks to make New England's roster, while it would have been be relatively easy to make expansion team Houston's roster. Now that Houston is improving, that may change.

Furthermore, Houston's picks were much higher. Assuming a top 5-10 pick always makes the roster, then they would get a few automatics there.