33 is the most slept-on slot in the modern draft. A round-1-caliber player slips, round 1 closes, your team picks first the next morning. The defensive backs eat here. Pre-1994 round-1 boundaries floated from 26 to 30, so the analogous cell shifted year to year — but the 'first pick of day two' bargain has always lived a few slots past the end of round 1.
How rare was this draftigami?
No rarity score — the model compares each pick to its predictions for earlier seasons, and drafts from 1967–1969 sit before that runway is long enough.
Safety at #33, 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: 14.2% · 2027 model: 3.5%
Surrounding picks · 1968 draft
#28DEBill StaleyCIN
#29DECarlton DabneyATL
#30QBGary BebanLAR
#31DECurley CulpDEN
#32OTTom FunchessNE
#34DTBob TatarekBUF
#35LBJimmy KeyesMIA
#36OTErnie RuplePIT
#37STJerry DePoysterDET
#38LBTom RousselWAS
Drafted at this same coordinate later · 7 picks
2015Landon CollinsNYG — GM Jerry Reese · Alabama
2013Johnathan CyprienJAX — GM David Caldwell · Florida International
2009Louis DelmasDET — GM Martin Mayhew · Western Michigan
1998Corey ChavousARI — GM Bob Ferguson · Vanderbilt
1997Rob KellyNO — GM Mike Ditka · Ohio St.
1992Marquez PopeLAC — GM Bobby Beathard · Fresno St.