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Kiper recently dove into research that spanned decades, analyzing quarterback draft success rates between 1970 and 2024. His exploration categorizes the draft into different eras and breaks down the success percentages of quarterbacks based on their draft rounds. When looking strictly at first-round selections, Kiper reveals that the hit rate has fluctuated around 50% over the years, with notable differences depending on the pick number.
For quarterbacks drafted in the top five of the first round, the success rate rose to 72%, demonstrating that the earlier a quarterback is taken, the better the chances of successfully guiding a team to the playoffs. In contrast, quarterbacks drafted from picks six and beyond in the first round dropped to a disheartening 37%.