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Every draft pick is just a resource in the grand scheme. A good draft is one where a team finds a way to generate more value than they’d expect from those picks whereas a bad draft is one where a team does the opposite. In the end, that value is really determined by how the players pan out, but what’s the fun in waiting that long to try to evaluate a draft?
So, while we wait, how did the New York Jets do in evaluating the players that they drafted relative to where they were supposed to go? In theory, this would tell us which players were largely viewed as good values and which were generally viewed as being a “reach.”
In this chart, a team to the left of the line drafted players later than they were expected to go whereas a team on the right drafted players earlier than they were expected to go. As shown below, the Jets ranked 22nd using that scoring system, reflecting that their draft board seemed to meaningfully differ from the consensus based on a big board created by Arif Hasan (@ArifHasanNFL on X) based on publicly available mock drafts.
Enough of what everyone else thinks? What do you think? How did the Jets do in the draft overall?
