Only four classes in the modern NFL draft erafailed to register an “approximate value” (AV) for their team, based on the unique metric at Pro Football Reference.
One of those notorious labels belongs to the collection put together by the 1989 Vikings, a year after the franchise tookfuture Hall of Fame guard Randall McDaniel in the first round.
PFR describes the stat as a compound measurement based on games played and started, key stats, individual awards and team wins. AndESPN’s Brian Burke and Tony Moss recently boiled down the AV stat to include only what a player did for the team that drafted him.