Star ratings in the first round of NFL draft

[#2Gopher]

7 5 star rankings
14 4 star rankings
8 3 star rankings
3 2 star rankings - Two stars were Justin Jefferson (Vikings) Brandon Aiyck (San Francisco) Jordan Love (Packers)

 

[Livingat45north]

... which comes to an ave ranking of 3.78. Stars do matter.

 

[GO4INLALALAND]

I still don’t understand why my beloved Packers traded up for Love!!! Good grief.

 

[WhoFellDownTheGopherHole?]

I still don’t understand why my beloved Packers traded up for Love!!! Good grief.

How do you feel about not getting a WR in the 2nd, either?

 

[Lakeville Goldy]

How do you feel about not getting a WR in the 2nd, either?

Or the 3rd, or the 4th, or the 5th, or the 6th, or the 7th....

For those that don't know, former Gopher head coach John Gutekunst's son Brian is the GM there.

 

[OddStack]

I still don’t understand why my beloved Packers traded up for Love!!! Good grief.

I can't believe they didn't grab Love's back-up on day 3.

 

[50PoundHead]

I still don’t understand why my beloved Packers traded up for Love!!! Good grief.

Same here. The trade-up is the most bothersome part of it.

 

[50PoundHead]

How do you feel about not getting a WR in the 2nd, either?

They need a TE who doesn't make a glacier look like a gazelle more than a WR and instead they take an H-back in the 3rd. The guy kind of looks like Kleinsasser so if he turns out to be that good, it would be alright. But the Packers better get used to facing nine men in the box.

 

[50PoundHead]

The overall gist on the star-rankings is no surprise. NFL has increasingly become a tools over skills exercise at the top of the draft and stars generally equate to raw physicality.

 

[LakevilleBro]

The NFL draft was a rich WR draft, with 37 WR's being chosen. The Packers need a WR, and the Packers pick ZERO WR's. That is amazing.

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

I still don’t understand why my beloved Packers traded up for Love!!! Good grief.

I love to hate on my Vikings....but Green Bay


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[PMWinSTP]

If we look at dots instead of stars, does that change things?

 

[Gold Rush]

If Spielman would have had the draft that the Packers did, the Vikings fans would run him out of town!! I can only imagine the hatred and vitriol spewed toward him right now - it would be nasty!

 

[Plato]

All of this is meaningless except to those who cannot stand uncertainty and prefer prophecy to predict the future.
Obviously that is the basis for religion.
Wait until three years from now and look at the total roster and the starting roster of any NFL team and correlate with each player's star ranking at the time he started college.
Then you might have a semblance of real data.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

FWIW - in the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl game - of 80 players chosen, the breakdown based on star rating:
5* - 11
4* - 24
3* - 26
2* - 6
Not Rated - 13.

the "Not Rated" group included Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady and Antonio Brown.