✱ NFL DRAFTIGAMI

Draftigami is the art of making a positional draft pick that has never been made before in NFL history. Some combinations (a QB at #1) happen constantly. Some (a long snapper in round 1) have never happened. This chart shows all of them, from the 1967 NFL/AFL Common Draft through the most recent draft.

Yes — flip the Split: O-line / D-line / Secondary checkboxes up top. Default is coarse (OL, DL, DB combined) because the chart reads cleaner that way. Granular shows OT / OG / C, DE / DT, and CB / S as separate columns. Linebacker stays combined either way (OLB/ILB/MLB labeling shifted too much across decades to be reliable).

1967 is the first NFL/AFL Common Draft — the start of the modern, unified draft. Pre-1994 drafts went 8–17 rounds, all the way out to pick 442. Including those late rounds would make the chart 75% empty space and obscure the actual story, so the chart caps at round 7 of each year's draft. You still get Elway (#1, 1983), Payton (#4, 1975), Lawrence Taylor (#2, 1981), Jerry Rice (#16, 1985), Bruce Smith (#1, 1985), Barry Sanders (#3, 1989), and Joe Montana (#82, 1979 — the third-round legend). The 1994–2026 button narrows to the actual 7-round era only.

From Jon Bois's Chart Party series at SB Nation (now Secret Base). His 2017 video "Every NFL Score Ever" introduced the concept of scorigami — final scores no NFL game has ever produced. It's one of the great pieces of sports writing on the internet, and it's the direct inspiration for this. If you've never seen it, watch it now:

The live tracker site at nflscorigami.com grew out of that video and the @nflscorigami bot. Bois's adjacent work on Dorktown (the per-team historical deep dives, like the legendary Mariners series) is in the same spirit and worth your time too.

This one is by Andrew Martin, a tribute to the original. Data from nflverse via nfl_data_py, with current-year picks scraped from Wikipedia until nflverse catches up. Source on GitHub.