Draft/Pro Bowl Breakdown since 2000
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Per Request here is a thread on the draft and who made the Pro Bowl from the various rounds at various positions. I am starting this only from the 2000 draft. (thus the numbers of the likes of Peyton Manning/Donovan McNabb will not be on here) Lets start with the obvious: Quarterback.
Round 1: Quarterbacks drafted in round one of the draft since 2000 have made 40 Pro Bowl appearances. Of these 28 of those appearances have been by QBs drafted in the Top 5.
(16 different QBs....most: 5 each by Rivers #4/Rodgers #24)
Round 2: 12 Pro Bowl appearances (9 by Drew Brees, drafted #32)
Round 3: 6 Pro Bowl appearances.
Round 4: None
Round 5: None
Round 6: 15 PB appearances (11 by Brady....but also one by DA). (plus Tyrod Taylor/Marc Bulger
Round 7: 1 PB appearance. Matt Cassell.
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UDFAs? Tony Romo must have at some point, right?
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Also this is interesting reading.
Over half of the pro-bowl appearances (40/74) have come from QBs drafted in the first round (when you throw in brees at #32 it goes to 49, about two thirds).
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Here is a similar Breakdown for the Running Backs drafted since 2000:
Round 1: 30 Pro Bowl appearances. Only 1 by a Top 5 pick: Ronnie Brown. Nine by Top 10 picks....7 of those by Adrian Peterson (CJ Spiller....1 PB)
Round 2: 16 Pro Bowl appearances.
Round 3. 11 PBS
Round 4. 7 PBs
Round 5. 3 PBs
Round 6. 4 Pro Bowls
Round 7: 1 Pro Bowl.
(of course, none of this takes into account any UDFAs that may have mad a PB.)
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Also this is interesting reading.
Over half of the pro-bowl appearances (40/74) have come from QBs drafted in the first round (when you throw in brees at #32 it goes to 49, about two thirds).
Also this is interesting reading.
Over half of the pro-bowl appearances (40/74) have come from QBs drafted in the first round (when you throw in brees at #32 it goes to 49, about two thirds).
Yep....and if you were to throw out Brady at the bottom....that ratio would be much higher.
(Also...FYI...yes, I am not taking into account UDFAs, as I said. Besides Romo....or maybe Jake Delhomme...do you know of any other UDFA QB that would have made Pro Bowl?)
Just a note: Brady and Brees, non 1st rounders, have more PBs than any first rounder...Brady more than double)
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Connor Shaw next year for sure.
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Oh right, I thought you were looking at pro bowls from 2000 onwards. Never mind.
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I wonder as well - if you were to call a group 'top 40' instead of first round, how much higher would the ratio be? I mean, you then get dalton, brees, kaepernick, carr for starters, probably half a dozen between them.
I think the take away is that unless you luck in to a tom brady (russell wilson for the next generation), your franchise QB will come in the first or early second round.
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Same data for Wide Receivers drafted since 2000:
1st round: 26 Pro Bowl appearances 12 by players taken in the Top 5: AJ Green/Calvin Johnson/Amari Cooper
2d round: 14 Pro Bowls
3rd round: 6 Pro Bowls
4th round: None
5th round: 1 Pro Bowl appearance
6th round: 4 Pro Bowls (all by Antonio Brown)
7th: None
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Oh right, I thought you were looking at pro bowls from 2000 onwards. Never mind.
No, I am not sure how I would be able to track that.
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Bottom line on all this so far: It seems that for quality offensive skill players, First round draftees still have about double the chance of making the Pro Bowl than players taken in any other round.
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No, I am not sure how I would be able to track that.
By checking the pro-bowls from each year. That's why I thought it would be a bitch to do!
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Last "Offensive skill position": Tight End:
Round 1: 21 Pro Bowl appearances (only Top Ten: 1 appearance by Vernon Davis #6 overall)
Round 2: 11 Pro Bowls
Round 3: 16 Pro Bowls (10 by Jason Witten)
Round 4: 5 Pro Bowls
Round 5: 1 Pro Bowl (Gary Barnidge for Browns)
Round 6: None
Round 7: 1 Pro Bowl
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No, I am not sure how I would be able to track that.
By checking the pro-bowls from each year. That's why I thought it would be a bitch to do!
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So, first round appearances by position:
QB: 49/74* = 66%
RB: 30/72 = 42%
WR: 26/53 = 49% - really, only 53 WR pro bowl appearances?
TE: 21/55 = 38%
*including brees at #32
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Offensive Tackles:
Round 1: 52 Pro Bowl appearances. 30 of these by players drafted in the Top 5 led by Joe Thomas with 9.
Round 2: 11 Pro Bowl appearances.
Round 3. 6 Pro Bowls
Round 4: 11 Pro Bowls
Round 5: 2 Pro Bowls
Round 6: None
Round 7: None
This appears to be THE most Top Heavy position in terms of players making the Pro Bowl. So, Sorry....it is BS that great OTs at least can be had anywhere. You want a good one.....you need to get one early.
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So, first round appearances by position:
QB: 49/74* = 66%
RB: 30/72 = 42%
WR: 26/53 = 49% - really, only 53 WR pro bowl appearances?
TE: 21/55 = 38%
*including brees at #32
So, first round appearances by position:
QB: 49/74* = 66%
RB: 30/72 = 42%
WR: 26/53 = 49% - really, only 53 WR pro bowl appearances?
TE: 21/55 = 38%
*including brees at #32
Yea, I don't know....that is all the database came up with. (again....it may be that many of those PB spots were taken up much by players drafted pre-2000. The Marvin Harrisonss/Tim Browns/Chris Carter/T.Os Maybe, at that position, the older players were more predominate.
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Seems pretty straight forward. You build a good team around your early round picks, and they had better be the right picks
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