How The League's Projected Starters Got Here

The Spotrac website is filled with interesting football stuff. I discovered this chart there. It shows where each of the league's projected 2019 starters were drafted. Or not drafted. Spotrac pulled the projected starters from another useful website, Ourlads.

Pos	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	UDFA	Supp.
QB	21	4	2	2		1	1	1
RB	10	12	8	12	5	5	1	12
FB				1	1	4	1	9
WR	24	24	15	12	10	5	5	32	1
TE	9	9	11	9	6	5	3	12
OC	6	6	5	3	3	5	1	4
OG	14	8	14	4	4	2	4	12
LT	18	6	1	2			3	2
RT	9	6	2	3	3	1	2	7
DT	13	11	11	3	4	2	2	8
DE	25	10	8	7	3		3	6
OLB	16	10	12	7	6	3	1	7
ILB	9	10	5	6	7	3	1	7
CB	25	12	5	5	5	1	2	7	1
S	16	14	10	4	3	5	2	10
K				1	3	3	4	21
P			1		6	4	3	17
LS				1	1		2	26	1
%	24	16	12	9	8	5	4	22	0.3

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A few thoughts:

I'm guessing that the undrafted starting quarterback is Case Keenum. I have doubts that he opens the season as the starter for the Washington Redskins. It's more likely Dwayne Haskins' job to lose.

Most starting quarterbacks are found in the first round. That's no surprise.

The 32 undrafted starting receivers is a surprise. Although this chart has 128 starting receivers. That's four per team. That seems excessive. A depth chart is a very fluid thing. And it's very subjective thing in May.

The significant number of first round corners isn't surprising.

Like quarterbacks and corners, starting left tackles are often found in the first round. What is surprising is that there are no fifth- or sixth-round picks among the projected starting left tackles.

Like quarterbacks, corners, and left tackles, starting defensive ends are also often found in the first round. It's for that reason that I've found it interesting that the Vikings have often found their starting defensive ends in the third and fourth.

Ray Edwards-2006 4th
Brian Robison-2007 4th
Everson Griffen-2010 4th
Danielle Hunter-2015 3rd

The Vikings acquired Jared Allen in 2008 for much more than a fourth. But even Allen was originally a fourth-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs.