blstoker
Bill Bergen for HoF!
Don't know man, from Super Bowl 48 to now the SB winning team's punter has averaged (max/min) the following ranks:
- Punt Average - 21st (12th/29th)
- Punt Net Average - 17th (7th/23rd)
- Punts inside 20 - 22nd (11th/27th)
Doesn't sound like the best of the best think that they need an all-pro punter. The only SB loser that I saw that had a punter ranked generally in the top 5 or so of those categories in that timeframe was the Rams in 2019 (2018 Season).
Interesting, but let's look at this another way shall we?
Since 2014, these 7 Super Bowl winners have drafted a combined 116 player from the 5th round and later, with New England with the most (28) and KC and TB tied for the least (20). Of these 116 players, 2 have become all pros at their positions, Tyreek Hill (3 times) and Jake Bailey (a punter). That's less than a 2% chance that they draft an all pro after the 4th round.
Three players have made the pro bowl, Hill (5 times), Bailey and DJ Alexander. So, again, that's less than 3% of their choices made a pro bowl.
A total of 65 times in that span has seen a player drafted in the 5th or later be the starter for their team (9 starts or more in a season). That's out of a total of 474 total possible seasons. So, there's a 13.7% chance that one of these late round picks will be a starter in a season.
On average, one of these late round players could expect to have an average of 1.26 AV in any given year.
4 of the 7 winning Super Bowl teams have drafted a punter between 2014-2020 (NE and Denver).
Overall, what this means is, I think some people have a overinflated idea of how much impact a later round choice should have on their team.