The Jets’ poor draft record is well documented, but a new metric offers another glimpse at just how bad Gang Green has been at picking NFL players over the last decade.
ESPN determined the Jets have drafted the least valuable players since 2012, according to its “Career Approximate Value Over Expected” statistic. This metric takes Pro Football Reference’s original Approximate Value for a player and measures it against where that player was drafted. So, first-round prospects who fail to perform are graded more harshly than players drafted later. How long that player stays with the original team doesn’t factor into “CAVOE.”
New York ranked 32nd in the NFL with a -304.9 CAVOE. Every one of New York’s draft classes from 2012-2020 had a negative score, while the 2021 class barely reached a positive number with 0.7. The Jets’ Day 3 (rounds four through seven) score of -73.3 also ranked last, meaning the Jets picked poorly throughout the entire draft.
