NFL Draft Efficiency Analysis by Position
All 32 teams ranked at every position, based on twenty years of NFL draft outcomes (2006–2025). Sorted by efficiency — best drafters on the left, worst on the right. Cells are always tinted by efficiency, so the color and the order tell different stories when you change the sort.
How to read this
Each row ranks every NFL team at one position by value over expected. That's the gap between what a team's picks actually produced and what the average pick at those slots has historically produced. Teams on the left drafted players who outperformed their slot; teams on the right drafted players who fell short. The number beneath each logo is how many picks a team has made at that position over the window.
Recent drafts carry less weight. The four most recent classes are tapered at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of full value. Careers take time to play out, and a fifth-rounder from 2025 hasn't had the runway to tell us whether the pick was any good. Cells tint at the extremes of the ranking and stay neutral through the middle.
Click any cell to see the picks behind the rank. The sidebar lists every player a team drafted at that position, sortable by value, year, or draft slot. Click a position label to surface the league-wide standouts: the best Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 picks at the position (ranked by career pVAR) and the biggest busts (by value below expected). Team codes in that band are tinted green for the league's three best drafters at the position and red for the three worst, so you can see whether the stars cluster on the teams that draft the spot well.
For the methodology behind value over expected, see Introducing pVAR and The Draft Pick Value Curve. For whether the league has been getting better at drafting at all, see Are NFL Teams Getting Better at Drafting?
