The 53 Report

Drafting players is one job.
Keeping them is another.

We track NFL roster construction across twelve years and 1.3 million data points. Draft retention. GM ROI. Regime change. The boring numbers that decide who actually wins.

The work, in three lanes.

All metrics open-source, all data public, all methodology documented.

Draft retention

Drafting a player and keeping them are different skills. We measure both, snap-weighted, across all 32 teams since 2012.

GM ROI

Tenure. Capital spent. Hits and misses. The receipts on every general manager's draft record.

Roster construction

Comp picks, trade-downs, second-contract decisions, late-round value. The full picture of how 53-man rosters get built.

The Raiders retention catastrophe. Then the league-wide scatterplot. New analysis on Tuesdays.