Following the conclusion of the 2024 NFL draft, the football community is scrambling to determine which teams had the most success. Traditionally, that means analysts assigning grades to players and the entire draft classes. But like everything related to the NFL Draft, for every opinion submitted, there is an analytical component that can also be considered.
From a grades perspective, the Detroit Lions 2024 draft class earned top-10 scores from most draft evaluators. But from an analytics perspective, they performed even better, as multiple “value” models all point to the Lions getting the most of their selections and determined that Detroit came away with the “most valuable” draft class in this cycle.