Just something to think of draft day. The Steelers know what they're doing. Just trust them. Now if only I could follow my own advice...
ESPN just had a series with the greatest drafts of all time. Not surprisingly, the Steelers ’74 class won both the quantative side and the popular vote.
In the point system, you got so many points for Hall of Famers, so many points for each Pro Bowl a player went to, so many for each All-Pro selection, so many for each MVP, Defensive or Offensive MVP and so on.
The ’74 class was #1 with 242 points. The second place team was the ’75 Cowboys with 146 points.
Yes. The ’74 class was so good that it beat the #2 class by almost 100 points when the highest total score was 242.
Most impressive of all, the ’71 class scored 148 points. That would beat the second best class of the rest of the NFL in the past 40 years of drafts by two points.
If the top ten were based on total points per team per draft, not top scores per team, it would look like this:
1974 Steelers, 242 points
1971 Steelers, 148 points
1975 Cowboys, 146 points
1969 Steelers, 136 points
1987 Steelers, 134 points
1985 Bills, 133 points
1996 Hated Ravens, 133 points
1989 Boys, 127 points
1981 49ers, 116 points
1981 Giants, 113 points
And then #11 would be the 1970 Steelers with 107 points.
Five of the top 11 drafts of the past 40 years and four of the top five. Wow.
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