11 draft classes, held out and graded.

Every class was kept out of training, then scored against the real NFL draft and the first four seasons of pro production — the rookie-contract window, so every class is graded on the same ruler and recent classes count. (Full careers get their say on the re-grade pages.) Draftanomics's board grades out ahead of the analyst consensus and a step shy of NFL war rooms — win, lose, or draw against the league, you see every hit and every whiff below. The sample, everywhere on this page: 11 draft classes graded, 5 with complete four-year windows.

The picks the model nailed and the ones it whiffed on are named — no cherry-picking.