Consensus Draft Grades: Kiper Jr, Sporting News, CBS And More
Everyone can have a different opinion about how a team did in the draft, which is reflected in their individual grades. The grades are based a large part on the bias people have for certain players and draft philosophies. I’ve decided to settle once and for all who had the best draft in the 2012 NFL Draft. I tracked down draft grades from Mel Kiper Jr., Sporting News, CBS’ Pete Prisco, Sports Illustrated, Matt Miller of New Era Scouting and Bleacher Report, the Kansas City Star, and Evan Silva of Rotoworld and Profootballtalk.com.
All draft grades are done with letter grades so in order to convert the grades I used a simple system. an A+ was 10, an A was 9, A- was 8, B+ was 7 and so forth. I then averaged the scores together to get a final grade.
Arizona Cardinals: B-
Atlanta Falcons-C/C+
Baltimore Ravens-B
Buffalo Bills-B-/B
Carolina Panthers-B
Chicago Bears-B-
Cincinnati Bengals-A
Cleveland Browns-B-
Dallas Cowboys B
Denver Broncos-C
Detroit Lions-B-/B
Green Bay Packers: B+
Houston Texans: B-
Indianapolis Colts-A-
Jacksonville Jaguars-C
Kansas City-C
Miami Dolphins-C+/B-
Minnesota Vikings: B+
New England: B/B+
New Orleans-C-
New York Giants-B
New York Jets-C
Oakland Raiders-C-
Philadelphia Eagles-A-
Pittsburgh Steelers-A-/A
San Diego Chargers B+/A-
Seattle Seahawks-C-
St. Louis Rams-B
Tampa Bay-B+/A-
Tennessee Titans-B-
Washington Redskins-B-
An interesting note the Bengals recieved 4 A+, and they also did not draft any player that was not from a major BCS conference, except for Boise State S George Iloka. Boise State of course is a very well known school to boot. Coincidence?
The total breakdown.
Key: A+ 10
A 9
A- 8
B+ 7
B 6
B- 5
C+ 4
C 3
C- 2
D+/D/D-/F-1
| Arizona | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5.285714 |
| Atlanta | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3.857143 |
| Baltimore | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6.428571 |
| Buffalo | 7 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5.571429 |
| Carolina | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| Chicago | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Cincinati | 10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9.142857 |
| Cleveland | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5.571429 |
| Dallas | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 6.428571 |
| Denver | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3.285714 |
| Detroit | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5.714286 |
| Green Bay | 7 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7.428571 |
| Houston | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5.142857 |
| Indinapolis | 8 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| Jacksonville | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Kansas City | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3.285714 |
| Miami | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4.857143 |
| Minnesota | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| New Englands | 5 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6.857143 |
| NewOrleans | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Giants | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 6.428571 |
| Jets | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3.428571 |
| Oakland | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.285714 |
| Philadelphia | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Pittsburgh | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8.428571 |
| San Diego | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7.571429 |
| San Fran | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3.714286 |
| Seattle | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2.428571 |
| St.Louis | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Tampa | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7.857143 |
| Tennessee | 3 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5.142857 |
| Washington | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5.285714 |
| Sports Illustrated | MattMiller | Kansas City Star | CBS Sports | Evan Silva (rotoworld) | Sporting News | Kiper |