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chillerdab
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Now that I’ve been researching counterpoints for all the chicken little crybabies on this message board regarding the commanders drafting, I stumbled upon this little gem of a website that compares drafting efficiency:
www.footballoutsiders.com
It’s a long article and not a soundbyte, and thus might turn off the shallow-minded among us, but in short, it seems to suggest that Washington, when comparing draft return (how well the washington team has drafted tabulated in career annual value) with draft capital (what actual draft picks they had to work with) has drafted 9th out of THE ENTIRE NFL over a ten year period ending in 2019.
Should I continue to research, naysayers?!
Suck it.

NFL Drafting Efficiency, 2010-2019
Guest columnist Benjamin Ellinger breaks down every draft pick in the past 10 years. Did Cleveland's tanking policy pay off? Which teams had the best results in the draft, and which wasted their picks? And is there anything meaningful in this data, or is there really some skill involved? The...
It’s a long article and not a soundbyte, and thus might turn off the shallow-minded among us, but in short, it seems to suggest that Washington, when comparing draft return (how well the washington team has drafted tabulated in career annual value) with draft capital (what actual draft picks they had to work with) has drafted 9th out of THE ENTIRE NFL over a ten year period ending in 2019.
Should I continue to research, naysayers?!
Suck it.