Who Are the Top NFL Draft Steals Since 2020?

With the 2025 NFL Draft days away, BetMichigan.com wanted to see who the top Draft steals have been since the 2020 edition across Michigan sports betting. We ranked players who were selected during the second round and beyond based on Weighted Career AV, according to Pro-Football-Reference.com.

Top 10 Biggest NFL Draft Steals

Rank	Player	wAV
1	Jalen Hurts	69
2	Amon-Ra St. Brown	47
3	Jonathan Taylor	45
4	Creed Humphrey	40
T5	Nnamdi Madubuike	38
T5	Jeremy Chinn	38
T5	Michael Pittman Jr.	38
8	Tee Higgins	37
T9	D’Andre Swift	36
T9	Brock Purdy	36

It might be hard to believe it given how well he’s taken to the NFL, but two-time Pro Bowl QB and reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts was once a second round pick out of Oklahoma, going 53rd overall to Philly in the 2020 NFL Draft before racking up 69 AV in 77 games played with the NFC East squad. Of the non-first round selections over the last half-decade, no player has done better (AV wise) than Hurts has in the City of Brotherly Love, thanks in large part to his 85 touchdowns (to 39 interceptions) and 55 touchdowns on the ground since entering the league in 2020.

Overall, Hurts finished ahead of other NFL success stories like Detroit Lions star wideout Amon-Ra St. Brown, who has 47 AV in 66 games with the hometown team out of USC after getting selected 112th overall in 2021.

St. Brown and his 4,851 career receiving yards and 33 touchdown catches ranked ahead of other top draft steals like Jonathan Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts (45 AV), Creed Humphrey of the Kansas City Chiefs (40 AV) and a three-way logjam between Jeremy Chinn, Michael Pittman Jr. and Nnamdi Madubuike, who all have 38 AV in their respective careers.

What Teams Have Had The Most Draft Steals?

Rank	Team	Average wAV
1	Detroit Lions	13.89
2	Kansas City Chiefs	13.30
3	Miami Dolphins	11.21
4	Buffalo Bills	10.58
5	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	10.27
6	Philadelphia Eagles	10.26
7	Baltimore Ravens	10.10
8	Chicago Bears	10.08
9	Pittsburgh Steelers	10.04
10	San Francisco 49ers	9.95

Since 2018, no NFL team has done better at drafting outside of the first round than the Lions have, with Detroit averaging 13.89 wAV from their picks outside the top 32 spots in the seven-round event.

That figure puts Detroit ahead of the AFC goliath known as the Kansas City Chiefs, who have averaged 13.30 wAV from their picks during that time, while the Miami Dolphins (11.21 average wAV), Buffalo Bills (10.58 average wAV) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10.27 average wAV) also made the cut when it came to the top NFL teams at landing draft day value outside of the event’s opening round.

This year, Detroit will look to add more talent to their star-studded roster when the NFL Draft kicks off from Green Bay on April 24, with the real steals coming on days two and three, when GMs will look to find the next Jalen Hurts or Amon-Ra St. Brown in the latter rounds of the made-for-TV springtime spectacle. Bookmark our Lions Super Bowl Odds page in the meantime.

USA Today photo by Lon Horwedel.

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Christopher Boan

Christopher Boan is a staff writer for BetMichigan.com. He has covered sports and sports betting for more than seven years and has worked for publications such as ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.