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Nelson Agholor

Drafted by PHI · GM Chip Kelly · USC

All NFL teams

Full-career context

These totals follow Nelson Agholor across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.

Games played149
Games started105
Weighted career AV36
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2015 · Round 1 · #20

PHI draft credit

GM Chip Kelly

Team games71
Team starts62
On-team AV21
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-2.57 contribution5th of 6 picks for this GM

Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.

Long-career hit

Nelson Agholor became a 10-season, 149-game NFL player after going #20. The retained-value model still ranks him 5th of 6 for Chip Kelly because PHI only got 71 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.57. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Chip Kelly's leaderboard composite θ.

Full-career context prevents this from being labeled as a bad talent pick: the negative model score is about retained team value, not whether the draft identified an NFL-caliber player.

The walkthrough below shows which bucket carried the pick: playing time, value quality, or league honors.

Opportunity
Did he earn the field?
Games played
71
on drafting team · 149 full-career
Games started
62
on drafting team · 105 full-career
Snap-z
6.5
5 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
21
modeled; full weighted AV 36
AV / 1k snaps
5.2
4,059 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.1
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only

Did this pick move Chip Kelly's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Chip Kelly pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Nelson Agholor totals -2.57. The second chart breaks that same contribution into the seasons when the evidence arrived. Opportunity and quality can move separately, which keeps high-snap, low-AV profiles from looking cleaner than they are.

Aggregate contribution by player

-3-2-10237. Mihalik#237 · Brian Mihalik · aggregate -0.15191. Shepherd#191 · JaCorey Shepherd · aggregate -0.46196. Evans#196 · Randall Evans · aggregate -0.5384. Hicks#84 · Jordan Hicks · aggregate -1.0820. Agholor#20 · Nelson Agholor · aggregate -2.57Agholor -2.647. Rowe#47 · Eric Rowe · aggregate -3.03Rowe -3.0

Incremental contribution by season

-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-102015 · Brian Mihalik · incremental -0.502015 · Randall Evans · incremental -0.882015 · JaCorey Shepherd · incremental -0.902015 · Jordan Hicks · incremental -1.302015 · Nelson Agholor · incremental -3.042015 · Eric Rowe · incremental -7.152016 · Brian Mihalik · incremental +0.072016 · Randall Evans · incremental -0.132016 · Nelson Agholor · incremental -0.502016 · Jordan Hicks · incremental -0.742017 · JaCorey Shepherd · incremental -0.092017 · Randall Evans · incremental -0.132017 · Jordan Hicks · incremental -0.152017 · Nelson Agholor · incremental -0.642018 · JaCorey Shepherd · incremental -0.092018 · Randall Evans · incremental -0.122018 · Jordan Hicks · incremental -0.482018 · Nelson Agholor · incremental -0.632019 · Brian Mihalik · incremental +0.072019 · JaCorey Shepherd · incremental -0.092019 · Randall Evans · incremental -0.132019 · Nelson Agholor · incremental -0.41Agholor -3.0Rowe -7.2Agholor -0.5Agholor -0.6Agholor -0.6Agholor -0.420156 players20164 players20174 players20184 players20194 players
Above expectationBelow expectationNelson AgholorGM total -7.8Nelson Agholor by season -5.2

How much retained production did Nelson Agholor return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: WRs drafted within ±5 picks of Nelson Agholor since 2010 (25 players).The score is the retained production/value bucket from the pick-residual model: on-team AV plus AV-rate quality, adjusted for draft slot, position, and era. Opportunity snaps and league honors are excluded.

-1.5-1-0.50+0.5+1+1.5Model value above slot22. JeffersonJustin Jefferson · model value +1.917. LambCeeDee Lamb · model value +1.922. FlowersZay Flowers · model value +1.420. Smith-NjigbaJaxon Smith-Njigba · model value +1.222. ThomasDemaryius Thomas · model value +1.224. BryantDez Bryant · model value +125. AiyukBrandon Aiyuk · model value +123. ThomasBrian Thomas · model value +0.825. BrownMarquise Brown · model value +0.419. EgbukaEmeka Egbuka · model value +0.424. MooreD.J. Moore · model value +0.420. WrightKendall Wright · model value +0.323. AddisonJordan Addison · model value +0.221. FullerWill Fuller · model value +0.221. JohnstonQuentin Johnston · model value 015. JeudyJerry Jeudy · model value -0.123. GoldenMatthew Golden · model value -0.422. DoctsonJosh Doctson · model value -0.618. BurksTreylon Burks · model value -0.720. ToneyKadarius Toney · model value -0.720. CooksBrandin Cooks · model value -0.815. ColemanCorey Coleman · model value -0.821. ReagorJalen Reagor · model value -0.816. DotsonJahan Dotson · model value -0.920. AgholorNelson Agholor · model value -1.2-1.223. TreadwellLaquon Treadwell · model value -1.6
Nelson AgholorSlot-similar peers (25)

Cumulative value over time

Year-by-year running totals since draft. Left axis = games started. Right axis = honors (Pro Bowl / AP1 / AP2). Pre-2013 picks have no games-started line because that comes from per-game snap counts (not available for older players). Honors extend back to 1980.

'16'18'20'22'24029598811701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2015PHI13126700.723.0
2016PHI15149021.433.3
2017PHI16168111.378.6
2018PHI16169832.066.1
2019PHI11116931.034.3
2020LV16147311.2810.9
2021NE15137071.157.1
2022NE1694760.336.3
2023BAL1785870.646.8
2024BAL1444200.124.8

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