NFL Draft grades are ridiculous and often wrong. Here's why they're still useful
A look at five years of post-draft rankings shows what they get right about process and projection -- and why a flawed exercise is still worth doing
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NFL Draft grades are ridiculous and often wrong. Here's why they're still useful A look at five years of post-draft rankings shows what they get right about process and projection -- and why a flawed exercise is still worth doing By Ryan Wilson Apr 30, 2026 at 3:31 pm ET • 12 min read Imagn Images Every April, minutes after the draft ends, we all start pretending we know exactly what just happened. Draft grades go up almost instantly. Winners and losers get declared. Someone "crushed it." Someone else "reached." In that moment, we're trying to project three, four, even five years into the future based largely on what we thought we knew about college players.It's a little silly. Maybe it's very silly.
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