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The Most Impressive Draft Class in Modern Football History

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buckeye phi's picture
May 3, 2016 at 8:31pm
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Just stumbled across this article.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ohio-states-draft-class-is-the-most-impressive-in-modern-nfl-history/

A great read by Chase Stuart in which he examines how much more impressive the 2016 Ohio State draft class was than any other in modern football history.  It's actually by quite a considerable margin using his methodology. 

Incredibly, Ohio State had five players drafted in the top 20 and another five in the top 100. As a result, a total of 151.2 points of draft value was used on Buckeyes players. That’s the most — by a very large margin — in 70 years.

This can not be recommended highly enough for Buckeye fans, in my opinion.  Very interesting stuff. 

Using this methodology, the best draft class between the 1970 merger and this year came out of Miami in 2004. And yet this class beat that mark by 31.7 percent!

Talk about recruiting ammunition - as well as good, ol' fashioned bragging rights. 

Enjoy -

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