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Playmaker Score 2020.
Football Outsiders
The 2020 NFL draft's wide receiver class has been widely hailed as perhaps the best in over a decade. Playmaker Score, which is Football Outsiders' statistical system for projecting college wide receivers to the next level, agrees that there are several promising prospects in this year's class. However, Playmaker Score is only lukewarm about much of the depth available at the top of the draft. While the very top prospects look to be quite excellent, many of the receivers slated to go in the second half of the first round are not any stronger than the first-round wide receivers of drafts past.
Playmaker Score is based on a statistical analysis of all of the Division I wide receivers drafted in the years from 1996 to 2017, and measures the following:
The wide receiver's projected draft position. These projections use the draft projections from Draft Scout.
The prospect's best or "peak" season for receiving yards per team attempt (i.e., a wide receiver with 1,000 receiving yards whose team passed 400 times would score a "2.50").
The wide receiver's peak season for receiving touchdowns per team attempt.
The difference between the prospect's peak season for receiving touchdowns per team attempt and the prospect's most recent season for receiving touchdowns per team attempt (this factor is simply "0" for a player whose peak season was his most recent season).
A variable that rewards players who enter the draft as underclassmen and punishes those who exhaust their college eligibility.
The wide receiver's rushing attempts per game during their peak season for receiving yards per team attempt.
A factor that gives a bonus to wideouts who played on the same team in college as other receivers who are projected to be drafted.
