The Ultimate Guide To Drafting | Articles

*** Current as of December 19th, 2023 ***

In Season 6-8, elite Japan ROM players are drafted via the "Hero Round" and used exclusively in Season 5. Those results have been omitted to preserve the average position of the original game's players.

Season 8 features new defensive team breakdowns: Top, Middle and Bottom DE, LB, DB's
Previous sets have been removed from overall rankings but can be found on the defense page.


	PLAYER NAME	S8	S9	AVG PICK	+/-
42	Dallas (P/B)	47	37	43.4	+ 14
19	Washington (D-Btm)	28	14	21.0	+ 7
74	Minnesota (D-Mid)	75	68	71.5	+ 7
21	Los Angeles (D-Btm)	29	16	22.5	+ 6
70	San Francisco (OL)	64	48	67.3	+ 6

91	Cleveland (D-Mid)	77	88	82.5	- 7
79	Minnesota (D-Btm)	69	80	74.5	- 8
27	Chicago (D-Mid)	18	38	28.0	- 10
81	T. Kramer (QB)	80	102	76.0	- 11
43	Miami (P/B)	83	57	44.0	- 12


	PLAYER NAME	S1	S2	S3	S4	S6	S7	S8	S9	AVG	+/-
01	New York (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1.0	+/-
02	B. Jackson (RB)	2	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	1.6	+/-
03	W. Payton (RB)	6	2	2	2	7	7	3	4	4.1	+/-
04	D. Marino (QB)	8	5	3	5	3	4	5	6	4.9	+/-
05	J. Elway (QB)	3	6	5	6	4	6	6	9	5.6	+/-
06	E. Dickerson (RB)	5	4	6	4	6	9	4	5	5.4	+/-
07	Washington (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	3	5.5	+/-
08	J. Montana (QB)	1	11	8	7	5	14	15	18	9.9	+/-
09	New York (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	10	10.5	+ 1
10	San Francisco (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	8	10.5	+ 2

11	H. Walker (RB)	13	8	10	8	12	11	14	12	11.0	- 2
12	San Francisco (WR)	12	20	13	9	17	8	7	7	11.6	- 1
13	Minnesota (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	11	13.5	+ 2
14	L.A. Raiders (WR)	9	12	9	14	19	18	12	19	14.0	- 1
15	Indianapolis (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	13	15.5	+ 1
16	Washington (WR)	18	19	07	15	20	20	10	21	16.3	- 2
17	Chicago (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	20	20.5	+ 2
18	C. Warner (RB)	45	26	25	12	13	13	17	15	20.8	+ 2
19	Washington (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	28	14	21.0	+ 7
20	Cleveland (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	23	21.5	- 2

21	Los Angeles (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	16	22.5	+ 6
22	Chicago (S/T)	15	34	26	25	22	24	26	17	23.6	- 1
23	B. Kosar (QB)	31	13	17	28	42	22	22	24	24.9	- 1
24	Cleveland (S/T)	16	31	41	27	28	5	31	25	25.5	- 1
25	Minnesota (WR)	38	25	24	20	26	23	23	26	25.6	- 1
26	M. Allen (RB)	-	37	32	19	30	17	27	22	26.3	- 1
27	Chicago (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	38	28.0	- 10
28	Seattle (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	30	28	29.0	+/-
29	Indianapolis (OL)	32	33	30	37	39	35	09	27	30.3	+ 4
30	Cleveland (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	43	32.5	- 1

31	N.Y. Giants (WR)	41	35	23	32	27	32	41	35	33.3	- 1
32	Chicago (OL)	15	39	22	49	40	39	33	29	33.3	+/-
33	Denver (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	33	36.0	+ 1
34	Denver (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	43	30	36.5	+ 5
35	T. Dorsett (RB)	22	-	34	29	-	76	35	32	38.0	+/-
36	Miami (WR)	-	28	46	45	50	46	36	34	40.7	+ 2
37	D. Williams (QB)	33	15	54	33	46	52	42	58	41.6	- 1
38	J. Morris (RB)	-	61	37	22	84	27	34	31	42.3	+ 4
39	Los Angeles (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	40	45	42.5	- 2
40	Cleveland (WR)	-	44	40	47	68	38	25	40	43.1	+/-

41	Seattle (P/B)	35	45	49	53	43	44	38	39	43.3	+/-
42	Dallas (P/B)	30	42	51	57	33	50	47	37	43.4	+ 14
43	Miami (P/B)	-	38	33	35	31	31	83	57	44.0	- 12
44	Chicago (P/B)	39	41	42	43	59	42	44	49	44.9	- 1
45	Chicago (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	46	44	45.0	+/-
46	Denver (P/B)	-	60	35	36	55	43	37	53	45.6	- 2
47	Miami (OL)	-	40	-	52	44	58	48	41	47.2	- 1
48	P. Simms (QB)	-	59	59	38	51	47	24	59	48.1	+ 2
49	Minnesota (S/T)	26	36	52	60	49	67	56	46	49.0	- 2
50	Minnesota (OL)	20	48	58	80	52	63	45	36	50.3	+ 5

51	Cleveland (P/B)	21	51	44	42	45	55	53	42	50.4	+ 2
52	San Francisco (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	50	51	50.5	- 3
53	Los Angeles (S/T)	-	46	47	54	47	54	57	50	50.7	- 2
54	San Francisco (P/B)	37	-	14	39	37	106	63	70	52.3	- 6
55	Indianapolis (S/T)	32	43	53	64	60	56	72	55	54.1	- 3
56	Indianapolis (P/B)	29	50	43	65	41	41	54	56	54.1	+ 1
57	Seattle (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	58	52	55.0	+ 4
58	Seattle (WR)	-	-	50	55	56	48	52	72	55.5	- 4
59	N.Y. Giants (P/B)	-	-	44	71	-	60	55	62	58.4	+ 1
60	D. Krieg (QB)	-	-	61	50	54	62	51	77	59.2	- 2

61	Chicago (WR)	34	-	82	46	72	61	49	75	59.9	- 2
62	Washington (OL)	-	55	65	75	63	65	61	47	61.6	- 3
63	R. Craig (RB)	-	-	63	40	-	-	90	54	61.8	+ 3
64	Miami (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	60	65	62.5	- 2
65	Cleveland (OL)	16	49	67	81	73	73	79	66	63.0	- 2
66	Seattle (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	60	67	63.5	+ 2
67	Los Angeles (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	67	61	64.0	+ 2
68	Minnesota (P/B)	-	-	56	69	69	59	62	69	64.0	- 4
69	Miami (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	70	60	65.0	+ 3
70	San Francisco (OL)	-	-	73	83	67	69	64	48	67.3	+ 6

71	New York (S/T)	43	-	-	82	58	70	73	78	67.3	- 4
72	Dallas (S/T)	48	-	78	74	64	74	84	64	69.4	+ 1
73	Denver (OL)	-	57	72	87	70	77	74	63	71.4	+ 5
74	Minnesota (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	75	68	71.5	+ 7
75	Washington (P/B)	-	-	-	72	-	-	-	71	71.5	+ 2
76	New York (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	71	73	72.0	- 1
77	D. White (QB)	-	-	-	73	-	-	-		73.0	+ 2
78	Los Angeles (P/B)	-	-	60	94	74	57	68	91	74.0	- 4
79	Minnesota (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	69	80	74.5	- 8
80	Indianapolis (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	76	74	75.0	+ 3

81	T. Kramer (QB)	-	-	66	56	-	-	80	102	76.0	- 11
82	Washington (S/T)	-	58	71	89	66	82	86	82	76.3	+/-
83	Indianapolis (WR)	-	-	76	78	78	78	65	84	76.5	- 3
84	New York (OL)	43	-	57	102	-	110	-	-	78.0	+ 2
85	Seattle (S/T)	-	47	85	68	91	86	88	85	78.6	+/-
86	Miami (S/T)	-	-	77	79	-	-	-	83	79.7	+ 1
87	Denver (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	81	79	80.0	+ 5
88	T. Smith (RB)	-	-	88	86	-	90	59	-	80.8	+ 3
89	Los Angeles (OL)	-	-	80	90	75	84	82	81	82.0	+ 4
90	Miami (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	78	87	82.5	- 2

91	Cleveland (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	77	88	82.5	- 7
92	San Francisco (S/T)	-	-	79	107	65	75	87	76	83.2	- 4
93	J. Schroeder (QB)	-	-	70	84	88	-	-	95	84.3	+ 3
94	Dallas (OL)	48	-	86	101	76	103	-	93	84.5	+ 1
95	K. Mack (RB)	-	-	-	66	-	81	95	99	85.3	- 6
96	Denver (S/T)	-	-	-	93	-	72	-	98	87.7	- 2
97	San Francisco (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	85	94	89.5	+/-
98	J. McMahon (QB)	47	63	89	63	92	100	98	89	91.6	- 1
99	Seattle (OL)	-	-	-	98	-	-	96	86	93.3	+ 3
100	Dallas (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	97	90	93.5	+/-

101	Dallas (WR)	-	-	-	97	-	-	-	101	94.0	+/-
102	Washington (D-Mid)	-	-	-	-	-	-	91	100	95.5	- 4
103	Indianapolis (D-Top)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	96	96.0	New
104	Dallas (D-Btm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	97	97.0	New
105	J. Trudeau (QB)	-	-	-	99	-	-	-	-	99.0	- 2
106	Denver (WR)	-	-	-	108	-	102	94	92	99.0	- 2
107	L. Hampton (RB)	-	-	-	106	-	-	-	-	106.0	- 2