For many NFL fans, draft season has just begun. Most fans don’t really start to dive into college prospects until after their favorite team’s season is over, and that’s certainly understandable, but many others have been tracking this year’s crop of draftees since last August or even longer. NFL scouts and respectable draftniks have already spent thousands of hours detailing their reports and breakdowns and most will spend hundreds of hours more between now and the NFL Draft starting on April 27th. How do we determine if all of those hours are worth it? How do we ascertain that a draft has been successful or not? Next week, we’ll look at how some of the aspects of these methodologies can be combined to possibly offer a more nuanced tool to answer the question each teams’ draft proposes: Was it good or bad? For this week, we’ll get introduced to a few of the types of methods the football cognoscenti have used to reach conclusions about drafts. The title of this piece might be a little misleading so, if you’re coming here to find out the secret sauce behind how Cover 1’s draft crew assesses college prospects through film study, take … Continue reading How to evaluate if an NFL Draft was a success