With the NFL Draft complete, here are the highlights of the UTH Predict the Draft contest:

First off, here is the player list folks were tasked to predict their draft position:

Lamar Jackson
Mason Rudolph
Luke Falk
Sony Michel
Nick Chubb
Royce Freeman
Josh Adams
Bo Scarbrough
Courtland Sutton
Anthony Miller
Auden Tate
Antonio Callaway
Tre’Quan Smith
Mark Andrews
Ian Thomas
Troy Fumagalli

Looking at % of their actual draft position as the differential, across the board Antonio Callaway and Sony Michel were the most difficult to project. The average entry was off by >70% in each case.

In terms of the most accurate player to project, Troy Fumagalli (21%) and Ian Thomas (28%) had the lowest differential among entries.

Overall Winner

The most accurate predictor overall was Josh Geschke! His total margin was 539 draft spots, including the most accurate predictions on Mason Rudolph (59 overall) and Anthony Miller (49 overall) across the entire contest. He was also off by less than 10 spots with each of Sony Michel, Nick Chubb, Royce Freeman, and Troy Fumagalli. He beat the second place entry by a whopping 59 total spots.

For each player, here were the most accurate predictions:

Lamar Jackson: Joseph Bell (34 overall)

Mason Rudolph: Josh Geschke (59 overall)

Luke Falk: Link Gottbeheat (152 overall)

Sony Michel: Brent Edson and Andrew Kallio (34 overall), Wes Hietpas (28 overall)

Nick Chubb: Jason Zanon (35 overall, perfect!)

Royce Freeman: Norm Sutton and Richard Nice (70 overall), Jason Nice (72 overall)

Josh Adams: John Olson (242 overall)

Bo Scarbrough: Dominick Harmon (238 overall)

Courtland Sutton: Justin McElroy (36 overall)

Anthony Miller: Josh Geschke (49 overall), Shaheed Rahh (53 overall)

Auden Tate: Jonathan Cloer (254 overall)

Antonio Callaway: Laura Skomoroh (100 overall)

Tre’Quan Smith: Jonathan Cloer (91 overall, perfect!)

Mark Andrews: Bart Forlano (87 overall)

Ian Thomas: Brent Edison, Dean Rizzuto (100 overall)

Troy Fumagalli: James Farmer (155 overall)

 

Will be notifying winners by the end of the week. Thanks for participating!