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)