C · pick 40 — first ever center at #40 (1990)

C·pick 40

FIRST C EVER DRAFTED AT #40

Tim Grunhard

Drafted by KC — GM Carl Peterson · Notre Dame

1990

How rare was this draftigami?

Trained on every pick through 1989, the model gave a center at #40 a 4.3% chance in 1990.

Center at #40, 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: 6.4% · 2027 model: 1.5%

Surrounding picks · 1990 draft

#35DEDan OwensDET — GM Chuck Schmidt
#36RBAnthony JohnsonIND — GM Jim Irsay/staff
#37LBAaron WallaceLV — GM Al Davis
#38RBHarold GreenCIN — GM Mike Brown / Duke Tobin
#39OGKeith SimsMIA — GM Don Shula
#41DTJeff AlmTEN — GM Mike Holovak
#42RBCarwell GardnerBUF — GM Bill Polian
#43DEKenny DavidsonPIT — GM Dick Haley
#44SVince BuckNO — GM Jim Finks
#45RBLeroy HoardCLE — GM Ernie Accorsi

Drafted at this same coordinate later

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

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