Draft success

Had been seeing a lot of bitching about the Saints drafting, and questions/comments about needing to purge the scouting department, why does Mickey still have a job, why trade players for picks, we'll just waste the picks, etc., etc., etc. Made me curious about the "success" of the scouting department in preparing the decision makers. Pro Football reference has a cool feature where you can see the last year a player was under contract.

So, I looked at the 2017 - 2022 drafts and added the number of players drafted by a team and compared to the number of players still under contract (with any team). And it looks like the front office is not that bad (outside of the 1st round) and finding players.

Bal - 60.7%
Kan - 60.0%
Buf - 55.6%
NOR - 52.9%
TAM - 52.3%
Dal - 49.1%
Sea - 49.0%
NYJ - 48.9%
Jax - 46.9%
LAR - 45.3%
Ind - 45.3%
Phi - 45.2%
SFO - 44.9%
Hou - 43.9%
Atl - 42.9%
Mia - 41.9%
GNB - 41.4%
Pit - 41.3%
NYG - 40.8%
Chi - 40.5%
Min - 38.8%
LAC - 38.6%
Ten - 38.1%
Det - 37.5%
Den - 35.8%
Car - 34.8%
Cin - 32.7%
Cle - 32.0%
Was - 31.5%
LVR - 29.8%
NWE - 27.5%
Ari - 26.7%

Again, this is the success of the teams identifying players to draft. I am not going to spend the time to determine what players are still with their drafted teams, so people like Devenport, Hendrickson, Baun... still count towards the Saints success at drafting.