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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
who was drafted where from Mike Mayock's top 100 prospects list
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That's a cool chart.
However, the pre-draft rankings and the subsequent post-draft grades that are handed out every year are nonsense. Case in point, the SB champion Seahawks. The drafts where they found most of the young talent that is now playing for them (2011-2013) were largely panned by most of the experts. Even the chart above seems to indicate that many of the highly respected scouting departments in the league didn't get many of Mayock's top 100 and my guess is that they usually don't.
Seahawks-1
Broncos-2
Patriots- 2
Ravens- 4
Colts- 2
Chiefs- 2
Lions- 2
Packers- 2
Bears- 2
Saints- 2
Meanwhile, some of the teams that have trouble drafting and developing players did quite well according to this list:
Cleveland- 5
Jaguars- 5
Raiders- 5
Bills- 3 (still more than all Ravens on first list)
Perhaps, these bottom feeders are spending too much time listening to guys like Mayock?