u/soda_cookie

I've seen a lot of takes, mostly bad, about how the 49ers Draft. Sitting here in the middle of the night wide awake, I wondered, can you quantify how good a draft is for a team? I determined that yes, you can.

Sports Reference assigns a value to a player based on their performance for a year, calling it Approximate Value (AV) . This value ranges from 0 to the high twenties. Further, they track how much AV a player accumulated for the tram that drafted them (DrAV) So, I totalled the DrAV of all players for all teams dating back to 2017, Shanahans first year. Here are the results:

1. BUF 919
2. BAL 876
3. IND 859
4. SFO 797
5. GNB 791
6. TAM 764
7. LAC 733
8. KAN 726
9. CIN 722
10. DET 707

So, how bad does SF suck at drafting? They don't. They're, by this standard, a top 5 team.