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What Does the NFL Draft Really Produce? (Part I)

What does a 7-round NFL draft really produce? With every drafted player from the 1990's now retired, we take a look at career lengths and approximate value with respect to position and round.

This is the week when analysts rush to grade the NFL draft that just happened before any of the players have even played a down. We are going to do something very different here today by looking only at drafts where every player has retired from the NFL, ensuring complete career data. I had been sitting on this idea for four years, but this offseason was finally the time to complete it.