New Front Office Position: Draft Researcher

[JAG]

It seems like there hasn't been much of a revolution in drafting for quite a while now. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to hire some consultants to go back the past say 20-30 years, look at all the draft picks that haven't panned out / busted, and try to find similarities in them after having a list of their measurables (for at least as far back as these are kept), intangibles, etc. (the whole gamut of their scouted ability)? That's a huge task naturally, but you could get a number of people working on it and at least potentially realize some conclusions prior to the conclusion of the research. Or if it's still too enormous, at least all the first round picks of the past however many drafts, since those are the ones that teams invest heavily in in this salary cap era. I didn't go into that much detail of this, but why wouldn't some of the more free-spending and hungry-to-win owners look into something like this?

Disclaimer: I don't know that teams don't already have something like this being done, but I suspect it at least wouldn't be this extensive.

[Noble_Platypus]

I would volunteer. I have a book that Mel Kiper put out covering the drafts from 1970-1995. I have watched the entire draft every year since 1990. Its my favorite holiday. The Kiper book would help, it breaks down the drafts by round, by team each year and by team for the entire period. If this gets off the ground let me know.