EVIDENCE REGISTER · NOVEMBER 13, 2026

Sources, not assumptions.

Each record below separates draft facts, scouting opinion and Combine data. Source quality varies. Missing original records remain open research tasks.

What is an editorial choice?

The current selected cohort contains 28 players in three tiers. The achievement routes, cutoff season and editorial exceptions are FindMeMyQB’s choices, not official NFL categories or a validated prediction model. * Andrew Luck and Trevor Lawrence are explicit eye-test inclusions selected by FindMeMyQB, not qualifiers through the listed achievement routes. Luck also receives an explicit exception to the retired-player minimum of 100 NFL regular-season starts (he finished with 86).

How are shared counts calculated?

The descriptive cards are historical analysis of the previous 20-player group, not the current 28-player cohort. Expanded-cohort calculations are pending. The historical counts cover: recorded height ≥74 inches, draft round1, and overall pick1. All thresholds are inclusive. No missing value is replaced by zero. Height sources are mostly PFR data distributed by nflverse, not independently inspected original NFL weigh-in sheets. No predictive inference is made without controls.

nflverse dataset documentation · Source dataset

Historical 20-player pre-NFL evidence

The original records are retained with their provenance. The eight added players’ pre-NFL records are pending; see their profile for the achievement route.

Primary measurement cross-check

Wilson’s 2012 Combine height is reported as 5 ft 10⅝ in by official team reporting, while the cohort baseline records the rounded 5 ft 11 in. See his profile for both sources. No original weigh-in sheets have been obtained. These source types are not silently equated.

Open verification work

McNabb and Romo: original pre-draft reports not verified. Rivers and Palmer: limited contemporaneous coverage, not full reports. Uniform college-start counts and athletic-testing figures contain unresolved differences; no cohort-wide totals are presented. Goff’s vertical jump is disputed: Chargers 27.5 inches versus 49ers 27 inches and Rams 27.0 inches; no definitive value is used for comparison. Team biographies and draft-trade histories should be checked alongside final selection records.

Photography and outside resources

Each photo on the homepage has its creator, source link and Creative Commons license beside it. Original photo files are unchanged; CSS display crops are disclosed. NCAA scores and CBS analysis are outbound publisher resources, not our live data feed or rankings.