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Episode: Draft Room: The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Injury Data in the NFL Draft
Description: How much should a torn ACL actually move a prospect down your board? In this episode of the Draft Room, we dig into real orthopedic studies and data spanning decades of NFL Combine medical evaluations to answer one of the most underrated questions in draft analysis — how do pre-draft injuries actually impact career production, and are NFL teams overcorrecting in the early rounds? Key Discussion Points: Deep dive into the Brophy 2008 study and a 2018 systematic review covering 32 studies on how specific injuries (ACL, rotator cuff, Lisfranc, spinal) correlate to fewer games, lower snap counts, and shortened ca...