In the first article in this series, I began to explore the relationship between those NFL teams that have regularly drafted against consensus boards over the past five years, and whether that fact might have any causal relationship to their success.
I looked carefully at the San Francisco 49ers “reaches” over that timeframe - and added in two more years for good measure - for three reasons: 1) Washington’s General Manager Adam Peters came from the 49ers; 2) The 49ers have been the most draft-deviant team over the first three rounds of the draft for the past five years, and 3) They’ve been one of the best teams in the league during that period.