Whitedolphin54 said:Its a good point that only 30% of Qb's actually make it from the 1st round. Personally I would have liked to see Miami pick Smith or trade down. it would be interesting to see what the percentage was for a RB in the 1st rnd was, or indeed the success rate for any position in the 1st round come to think of it
whoever nick picks I will support his decision
http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php
That link has an article showing the top 10 picks at QB and RB since 1967. As I went through the lists I had 22/42 successful QBs (I excluded 2004, too soon) and 26/56 successful RBs. I don't know where Saban got his stats (I know he said 1st rd, but past analysis also puts that figure at about 50%). Obviously, this is subjective (who was successful), but IMO anybody's non-bias list will find that QBs and RBs have roughly quivalent success rates.