Huwebes, Hunyo 24, 2021

Strange increase in NFL players with surnames starting with the letter O.

In the second round of this past NFL draft, I noticed that three players whose surname began with O were drafted in a span of five picks. I thought that was a strange coincidence. But it inspired me to check out this page: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/O/.

Eyeballing it, it seemed that quite a large percentage of the players were active in the league. I decided to graph it out.

Roster sizes have remained the same since 2011, so here's the graph of the number of active players whose surname starts with O, for every year since then. That is to say, there were 27 active O-named players in the league in 2011. And there were 48 in the league in 2020. A 78% jump, and I have no idea why.

https://imgur.com/a/l8NQ0D5

This data, of course, is just as useless as that neck size to passing yards graph, but at least this data is real.



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