tomasokal/nfldraftr

A package to get historical draft data from the NFL.

nfldraftr

Overview

Can use to pull historical draft data from Pro Football Reference.

nfldraftr currently provides the following information:

• YEAR: Year drafted
• ROUND: Round drafted
• OVERALL_PICK: Overall pick in draft
• TEAM: Name of team drafted by
• PLAYER: Name of player
• POSITION: Position drafted for
• AGE: Age when drafted
• COLLEGE: Name of college
• LAST_YEAR_PLAYED: Last year played in NFL
• ALL_PROS: Number of First Team ALL-PRO selections
• PRO_BOWLS: Number of Pro-Bowl selections
• YEARS_STARTED: Number of years as primary starter for his team at his position
• GAMES_PLAYED: Games played in NFL

Installation

Install from Github.

# Install remotes to download.
install.packages("remotes")

# And then install from github.
remotes::install_github("tomasokal/nfldraftr")

Draft Years

nfldraftr provides historical draft data that can be accessed one year at a time or through a range of years.

# Load package
library(nfldraftr)

# Draft data from 2020
draft2020 <- nfldraftr::draft_year(year = "2020")
head(draft2020[, 1:8]) %>% 
  kable(row.names = FALSE) 

YEAR	ROUND	OVERALL_PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POSITION	AGE	COLLEGE
2020	1	1	CIN	Joe Burrow	QB	23	LSU
2020	1	2	WAS	Chase Young	DE	21	Ohio St.
2020	1	3	DET	Jeff Okudah	CB	21	Ohio St.
2020	1	4	NYG	Andrew Thomas	OT	21	Georgia
2020	1	5	MIA	Tua Tagovailoa	QB	22	Alabama
2020	1	6	LAC	Justin Herbert	QB	22	Oregon

# Draft data from 2020
df_draft_range <- nfldraftr::draft_range(min = "2015", max = "2020")
df_draft_range <- df_draft_range[order(df_draft_range$OVERALL_PICK), ]
head(df_draft_range[, c(1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13)]) %>% 
  kable(row.names = FALSE) 

YEAR	OVERALL_PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	POSITION	YEARS_STARTER	GAMES_PLAYED
2015	1	TAM	Jameis Winston	QB	5	72
2016	1	LAR	Jared Goff	QB	4	54
2017	1	CLE	Myles Garrett	DE	3	37
2018	1	CLE	Baker Mayfield	QB	2	30
2019	1	ARI	Kyler Murray	QB	1	16
2020	1	CIN	Joe Burrow	QB	0	NA

Data is pulled in to feature draft year, pick round, overall pick number, team, player, position, age, and college.

Credits

All data is pulled from Pro Football Reference. Accuracy of this data is dependent on the source.