2002 Draft by the Numbers

[Leonardfan]

In 2002 their were 261 total picks. 5 of those picks were specialists so I am removing those from the tally. 63 of the draft picks were White (65 if you include the half-White Ben Leber and Coy Wire). This draft was a little walk down memory lane as it was around the same time I began to notice the discrimination faced by White athletes as a 19/20 year old. 261 total picks subtracting the 5 specialists is 256 picks I am comparing to the total number of Whites.

63 out of 256 is 24.6
65/256 is 25.3

This is the most White friendly draft I can recall off the top of my head. Even so it's only a pathetic 1/4 of eligible skill position players are White. The deviation is still within the range of the caste system (just a few percentage points higher than the norm) The interesting outlier were the sheer number of TEs drafted at 23 with 12 being White. This year we may see that amount of White athletes drafted as well.




QB 13/16
David Carr
Joey Harrington
Patrick Ramsey
Josh McCown
Randy Fasani
Kurt Kittner
Brandon Doman
Craig Nall
J. T. O'Sullivan
Steve Bellisari
Seth Burford
Jeff Kelly
Wes Pate

FB 1/6
Chris Massey

RB 1/21
Luke Staley

OT 9/16
Marc Colombo
Mike Pearson
Jeff Hatch
Matt Hill
Matt Anderle
Mike Houghton
Chad Beasley
Kevin Shaffer
Kyle Kosier

C 8/11
Seth McKinney
Scott Peters
Tyson Walter
Justin Hartwig
Mike Pucillo
Jeff Grau
Eric Heitmann
Zack Quaccia



OG 3/10
Martin Bibla
Travis Scott
Pete Campion


TE 12/23
Jeremy Shockey †
Doug Jolley
Matt Schobel
Justin Peelle
Chris Luzar
Ryan Hannam
Keith Heinrich
Jeb Putzier
Mark Anelli
Bob Slowikowski
Mike Banks
Tracey Wistrom

WR 1/33
Eric Crouch

DE 4/24
Ryan Denney
Aaron Kampman
Josh Mallard
Brett Keisel


DT 3/15
Nate Dwyer
Justin Bannan
David Pugh

LB 7/27
Ben Leber *part asian
Rocky Calmus
Will Overstreet
Ben Taylor
Rocky Boiman
Scott Fujita
Nick Greisen


S 3/26
Jon McGraw
Coy Wire * part asian
Kevin McAdam


Kicker
Jeff Chandler
Travis Dorsch
Hayden Epstein

Punter
Dave Zastudil
Craig Jarrett