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2023 NFL Draft Visits, by team and position

I wanted to continue what has become a yearly tradition in looking at NFL Draft visits by team and position. As I have done in years past, the data was pulled from Walter Football and is current as of April 19, 2023. Visits should be ending soon so this is almost a complete list that is available to the public, as a lot of teams are pretty secretive about their visits getting out. But some beat reporter sleuthing and agent promoting has gotten us to this point.

Similar to last year, I assigned points to each type of visit per prospect (ex. virtual visit just worth 1 point, a private workout worth 3 points) and then tallied the total points across a position. Because while an individual prospect's agent might be more promotional than another's, across the board some patterns should emerge by position.

  • Visits worth 1 point = visits where the teams were already there and just talked to a player = Senior Bowl visit, NFL Combine visit, virtual visit
  • Visits worth 2 points = visits where the team sought out the player, but in a group setting = Pro Day visit, Local visits (players that grew up or went to college in the area)
  • Visits worth 3 points = individual visits where the player was brought in or worked out, often the most important = Private visits (teams have 30 of these to use), Workout visits

(the spreadsheet is conditionally formatted by color by position, so a darker color means that particular team paid more attention to that specific position more than other teams)

2022 NFL Draft Visits and Mock Draft

As I have done in previous years, I took a look at aggregating NFL Draft prospect team visits via Walter Football. This year, I awarded points per visit as: 1 point for a virtual or Senior Bowl meeting, 2 points for a Pro Day, Combine, or local prospect meeting, and 3 points for a private visit or workout. This is obviously not an exhaustive list -- as it doesn't include ALL visits, if they weren't reported by the team or if an agent does a better job of broadcasting their clients' visits -- but it does likely lead to team/position insights and can't be dismissed.

Here is the breakdown of visit points per position per team, with the cells conditionally formatted to be darker green if the team has spent more visit points on certain positions over others:

Also, here is my final mock draft for 2022. I wanted to project trades but it becomes too complex too quickly to do that.