Tucker Boynton and Ella Papanek cap off a semester of research with an in-depth breakdown of every NFL team's trade performances, position preferences, and overall success in the NFL Draft.
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By Ella Papanek, Reid Piercy, Charles Hua, Lev Cohen, and Danny Blumenthal The NFL Draft is almost here, so it’s time for our bold predictions for Thursday night. Check out which players HSAC thinks will rise up in the...
by Bill Lotter I know you’ve probably seen 17 mock drafts, so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. Back in February, I built models to predict where a player will be drafted and how well they will do in the NFL using...
by Henry Johnson With the NFL draft less than one week away, teams are scrambling to determine which characteristics of potential picks matter and which ones don’t. One possible trap to which teams might fall prey is an...
by Bill Lotter Yesterday I made a bunch of claims about the NFL Combine. Now it’s time to back it up. For quantifying performance, I explained why I will be using the 3 Year Approximate Value (3YAV). Just think of this as...
by Bill Lotter It’s a simple question. Does the combine actually matter? Or it is just an over-hyped meat market? In answering these questions, there’s two ways we could look at things: 1. Does performance at the...
By Anthony Zonfrelli As I studied the predictive value of NFL combine events on the draft picks of offensive players, this post examines which combine tests NFL front offices tend to focus on when selecting defensive recruits...
By Anthony Zonfrelli Last February, HSAC member Kevin Meers analyzed which combine events (namely 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical leap, broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, and 3-cone drill) actually translate into future NFL success...
In April, a writer for the Bleacher Report (BR) attempted to critique a new pick value chart for the NFL draft that I created and that HSAC published. There are many legitimate criticisms of my work in that article that are worth...
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