The NFL draft kicks off Thursday night, and hopefully we hear Amani Oruwariye’s name called in the first round. He’s been described as a “polarizing” player that some teams love and some are not all that sold on, so we’ll have to see how that plays out. Right now he is the only Penn State player projected with a shot to be drafted in the first round.
Looking at the NFL draft as a whole, here are four charts to guide your viewing. All of these charts were based off of NFL Draft data from 1985-2015, which includes over 8,000 players drafted. In years where there were more than seven rounds (the amount this year’s draft has), only data from the first seven rounds was used. When necessary, rounds were normalized to 32 picks per round, since that’s also the current number.
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