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    <description>NFL roster construction, with the receipts. Draft retention, GM ROI, and what the numbers actually say.</description>
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      <title>The Raiders Drafted Well. Three GM Firings Explain the 6 Percent Retention.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Las Vegas drafted 53 of 88 picks into 500-snap contributors from 2012 through 2022, above league average. Five remain on the 2025 roster after three GM firings.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Seattle&apos;s Post-Wilson Drafts: A Trench Build with a Rented Quarterback</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Eight of the 30 Seahawks drafted in the four classes since the Russell Wilson trade are offensive linemen. One is a quarterback. Schneider is rebuilding the trenches and renting the position he made his name on.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Window Question: Why Our Draft Analysis Runs 2012 to 2022</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A reader asked whether our 2012 to 2022 hit-rate window could be widened. The answer is no, and the why is the moat: snap-weighted retention only exists from 2012 forward, and recent classes need three full seasons to clear the 500-snap line.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Grading Brandon Beane: League&apos;s Best at Keeping, Above Average at Drafting</title>
      <description><![CDATA[From 2017 through 2022, Brandon Beane drafted 45 players for Buffalo, hit on 29 at the 500-snap threshold, and went 17 for 18 across rounds one through three. Retention leads the league. The full GM scorecard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Eagles Are the Best Drafting Team in the League. They Keep a Third of It.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Philadelphia turns 67.5 percent of its draft picks into 500-snap contributors against a league rate of 57.27 percent, the best mark in football, and retains 32 percent of its 2017-2021 cohort hits. Top-five on both sides.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Only Two Teams Draft Best and Keep Best. Everybody Else Picks One.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Eagles and the Chiefs are the only NFL teams that rank top-five in both draft hit rate (2012 through 2022) and 2017-2021 cohort retention on the 2025 roster. Drafting and keeping correlate weakly. Only two teams do both.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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