QB · pick 28, First QB at #28 in the Common Draft since 1967, rounds 1-7, QB grouping. (1980)

QB·pick 28

FIRST QB IN OUR WINDOW AT #28

Mark Malone

Drafted by PIT , GM Dick Haley · Arizona St.

1980 · round 1

Common Draft since 1967, rounds 1-7, QB grouping.

How rare was this draftigami?

Trained on every pick through 1979, the model gave a quarterback at #28 a 4.7% chance in 1980.

Quarterback at #28, year by year

Each year's estimate uses only that year's draft and the years before it , no peeking ahead. The line smooths across neighboring picks and seasons so a single oddball draft doesn't dominate. The shaded band is the model's 90% uncertainty range.

Peak: 7.1% · 2027 model: 3.5%

Surrounding picks · 1980 draft

#23CBRoynell YoungPHI , GM Jim Murray
#24CBDerrick HatchettIND , GM Dick Szymanski
#25RBVagas FergusonNE , GM Bucko Kilroy
#26LBGeorge CumbyGB , GM Bart Starr
#27RBCharles WhiteCLE , GM Art Modell/staff
#29RBJoe CribbsBUF , GM Stew Barber
#30CBWillie TealMIN , GM Mike Lynn
#31LBKirby CriswellCIN , GM Mike Brown / Duke Tobin
#32CRay DonaldsonIND , GM Dick Szymanski
#33TEDoug MarshARI , GM Bill Bidwill

Drafted at this same coordinate later

Nobody else has been drafted as this position at this pick number.

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