Steeler draft data - defense 2011-2018

[brothervad]

I collected the raw draft information from 2011-2018 and have sliced/diced it as unbiased as possible. Hard to know what this data means withtout comparing it to other organizations. I can provide more data but the % of all 35 defensive draft picks over the last 8 years that are a starter or depth (not assessing great vs bust) is 54%. I have always felt that the problem with the Steelers draft is the miss at secondary which begets more wasted picks on secondary and so on, and so on...

I think the fact that over 50% of those picks (8 out of 15) are out of the league is rather telling, regardless of where they were selected in the draft. (I also have broken it down by top3 rounds vs bottom 4 but like I said it's a lot of data).

	Starter 2015-2018	Starter 2011-2014	Depth 2015-2018	Depth 2011-2014	Total			Starter % 2015-2018	Starter % 2011-2014	Depth % 2015-2018	Depth % 2011-2014	Total
D-Line	0	2	2	2	6		D-Line	0%	6%	6%	6%	17%
Linebackers	2	1	3	1	7		Linebackers	6%	3%	9%	3%	20%
Secondary	2	0	4	0	6		Secondary	6%	0%	11%	0%	17%
Total	4	3	9	3	19		Total	11%	9%	26%	9%	54%

2011-2018	#	%
Offense Picks	28	44%
Defense Picks	35	55%
Special Teams	1	2%
Total Picks	64	100%

Position	#	Starter	Depth	Other team	out of league
D-Line	8	2	4	1	1
Linebackers	12	3	4	0	5
Secondary	15	2	4	1	8
Total	35	7	12	2	14

Position	% of total	Starter % of total	Depth % of total	Other team % of total	Out of League % of total
D-Line	23%	6%	11%	3%	3%
Linebackers	34%	9%	11%	0%	14%
Secondary	43%	6%	11%	3%	23%
Total	100%	20%	34%	6%	40%

[Chadman]

Looks like they know DL when they see them at least....