Who Actually Drafted Well? A History of NFL Draft Performance

Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive everybody, where in recent weeks, all the talk has been about the NFL Draft.The draft is a high stakes event on the NFL calendar. It gives every team the opportunity to change their fortunes overnight. Each team in each draft has the chance to draft the foundation of a championship team. They also have the chance to squander a treasure trove of immensely valuable draft pick assets, on players that will never help the team win, or anything in between.Did your team do well in the NFL Draft?This is what makes the NFL Draft so fun. In any given year, for any given team, the draft can be the best weekend in their history (like it was for the Seattle Seahawks in 2012), or it can be an unmitigated disaster (like it was for the Seahawks of the 1970s, where in their first four drafts, they picked zero Pro Bowlers altogether).The NFL world is obsessed with this phenomenon, to the point where several outlets rush to grade draft performance immediately.…