CB · pick 53 — first ever cornerback at #53 (1970)

CB·pick 53

FIRST CB EVER DRAFTED AT #53

Mel Blount

Drafted by PIT · Southern

1970

Common — not rare enough to clear the top 12.5% cutoff (no badge).

Trained on every cornerback pick before 1970, the model gave a 21.7% chance of a cornerback going at #53 that year.

Tiers are hard percentile cutoffs over every draftigami in our window: top 12.5% rarest = RARE, 5% = SUPER RARE, 1% = MEGA RARE, 0.25% = LEGENDARY.