The 2020 NFL Draft was rich with young quarterback potential. Now that the rookie season for Justin Herbert, Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Burrow and Jalen Hurts is over, it's time to see which signal-caller can avoid the sophomore slump.

Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes are understandably the favorites to win the MVP award for the 2021 NFL season.

PFF investigates whether top-tier athletes are able to stay and produce at the NFL level for longer than bottom-tier athletes, a study that will no doubt interest those entering the Julio Jones sweepstakes.

In 2021, protectors of the “blind side” are still paid more and considered to be more important than right tackles, but should this really be the case?

PFF data scientist Timo Riske looks at ways to evaluate draft classes.

The so-called "steals" and "reaches" often dominate the conversation about the NFL draft, and they often heavily influence draft grades. The question, of course, is how much stock should we put into these two words?

Positional value is a very complex topic, especially when it comes to the NFL draft, but it looks as though NFL teams are finally catching on and focusing draft capital on the most valuable positions on the football field.

PFF's Timo Riske looks back at the 2021 NFL Draft to see just how close the public got to predicting what would happen.

Three trades went down on Day 1 of the 2021 NFL Draft, and PFF's Timo Riske delves into each one to determine the winners and losers based on the value of the swapped picks.

PFF's Timo Riske uses data taken from the PFF Mock Draft Simulator to examine the most popular board settings, round settings, player-team pairings and trade scenarios to get an idea of how the public wants the 2021 NFL Draft to unfold.

Timo Riske takes a look at what every NFL team has to work with in the 2021 NFL Draft. The Jacksonville Jaguars have a better chance than not to have a top-six draft, while things don't look quite as rosy for the Seattle Seahawks.

PFF's Timo Riske takes a deeper look into prospects who declined in their final year in college football, investigating whether it can tell us anything about players from the 2021 NFL Draft class.

Data scientist Timo Riske compares players' actual draft position to their ranking on past consensus big boards to see whether the draft big boards hold any predictive power.

Using PFF metrics to investigate the "one-year wonders" in the 2021 NFL Draft class and whether these players are generally drafted too high, too low or at precisely the right spot.

Data scientist Timo Riske looks into a new way of valuing draft trades.

PFF data scientist Timo Riske looks at NFL drafts from 2011 to 2018 to investigate how successful teams were at trading up.

PFF's Timo Riske takes to the consensus big boards to see if they hold any predictive power over the NFL draft. The results are positive for the incoming offensive tackle and wide receiver class, two of the strongest position groups in the 2021 NFL Draft.

Yesterday we looked at how teams have allocated their draft capital toward different positions, so today we want to proceed by investigating which NFL teams have hit on their draft picks at every position.

PFF's Timo Riske compares past draft allocation to the 2021 draft class to see whether it will fit the teams’ habits.

PFF data scientist Timo Riske looks at how fast the average NFL player ages and how it varies through different positions.