QB · pick 28 — first ever quarterback at #28 (1980)

QB·pick 28

FIRST QB EVER DRAFTED AT #28

Mark Malone

Drafted by PIT — GM Dick Haley · Arizona St.

1980

How rare was this draftigami?

Trained on every pick through 1979, the model gave a quarterback at #28 a 3.9% chance in 1980.

Quarterback at #28, 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: 12.8% · 2027 model: 3.0%

Surrounding picks · 1980 draft

#23CBRoynell YoungPHI — GM Jim Murray
#24CBDerrick HatchettIND — GM Dick Szymanski
#25RBVagas FergusonNE — GM Bucko Kilroy
#26LBGeorge CumbyGB — GM Bart Starr
#27RBCharles WhiteCLE — GM Art Modell/staff
#29RBJoe CribbsBUF — GM Stew Barber
#30CBWillie TealMIN — GM Mike Lynn
#31LBKirby CriswellCIN — GM Mike Brown / Duke Tobin
#32CRay DonaldsonIND — GM Dick Szymanski
#33TEDoug MarshARI — GM Bill Bidwill

Drafted at this same coordinate later

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

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