The Dallas Cowboys will draft several prospects later this month when the NFL holds a virtual draft. America’s Team hopes that the newly selected prospects will contribute to the teams 2020 and beyond success. The reality is that most of the draft picks will only contribute beyond the 2020 season.
Pro Football Reference has charted a metric called Approximate Value (AV) that assigns a single number on the seasonal value of a player at any position from any year post-1950. To check the metric’s calibration, you can view the career AV leaders or the single-season AV leaders and judge for yourself if it identifies the elite NFL players.