Few NFL teams have achieved the level of consistency on the gridiron that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have over the last decade, with four playoff berths in a row from 2020 to 2023 and the franchise’s second Super Bowl title between 2014 and 2023.
Unsurprisingly, much of that success has been grounded in Tampa Bay’s ability to locate talent in the NFL Draft, with the Bucs’ being one of the best clubs in the NFL when it comes to wracking up approximate value totals from their first-round picks since 2014.
Overall, Tampa’s AV total (312 AV across 9 picks) ranks 10th in the NFL, while their AV per pick average of 34.7 is fifth overall in the 32-team league, illustrating how much talent GM Jason Licht and head coach Todd Bowles have found in the draft of late.
FloridaBet.com took a small break from Florida sports betting news and updates and utilized their approximate value statistic from Pro-Football-Reference.com to combine the total approximate value of the career of each NFL team’s 1st round NFL draft picks from 2014 to 2023 NFL Draft. The teams were then ranked on the average approximate value per pick to see what team has utilized their picks the best.
NFL Teams AV Total Since 2014:
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Where Tampa Bay Ranks In NFL When It Comes To Drafting Talent
Since 2014, the Bucs’ average first-round AV total of 34.7 ranks fifth overall, between the No. 4 Buffalo Bills (35.8 AV) and the No. 6 Kansas City Chiefs (33.6 AV) and just behind league leaders like the Los Angeles Rams (71.3 AV), Dallas Cowboys (41.3 AV) and the Chicago Bears (36.1 AV).
Leaguewide, when it came to raw AV totals, the Baltimore Ravens (428 AV across 13 picks), Dallas Cowboys (372 AV across nine picks) and the New York Giants (340 AV across 12 picks) were the leaders in the NFL between 2014 and 2023.
Conversely, the worst teams in the league when it came to AV average were the Seattle Seahawks (15.7 AV per pick), New England Patriots (17.0 AV per pick) and the Philadelphia Eagles (18.8 AV per pick), while the Seahawks had the lowest AV total in general, at 110 AV across seven picks over 10 years.
Come April, Bucs’ fans will hope that Licht and Bowles will have the same kind of success when Tampa Bay picks at No. 26 in the NFL Draft’s first round in Downtown Detroit, as the club looks to build on their past success in the April spectacle to build onto their NFC South championship roster for 2024 and beyond.
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