LB · pick 56 — first ever linebacker at #56 (1970)

LB·pick 56

FIRST LB EVER DRAFTED AT #56

Mike Ballou

Drafted by NE · UCLA

1970

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

Trained on every linebacker pick before 1970, the model gave a 13.2% chance of a linebacker going at #56 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.