← 2023 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R2 · #49 OVERALL · NT

Keeanu Benton

Drafted by PIT · GM Omar Khan · Wisconsin

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played51
Games started40
Weighted career AV17
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons3

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2023 · Round 2 · #49

PIT draft credit

GM Omar Khan

Team games51
Team starts40
On-team AV18
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Excellent+0.99 contribution1st of 21 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Keeanu Benton was Omar Khan's 1st-best of 21 picks across his career, the best pick of the entire tenure.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.99. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Omar Khan's leaderboard composite θ.

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

Opportunity
Did he earn the field?
Games played
51
on drafting team
Games started
40
on drafting team
Snap-z
3.6
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
18
modeled; full weighted AV 17
AV / 1k snaps
8.9
2,013 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 Omar Khan's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Omar Khan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Keeanu Benton totals +0.99. 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

049. Benton#49 · Keeanu Benton · aggregate +0.99Benton +1.0251. Anderson#251 · Spencer Anderson · aggregate +0.93119. McCormick#119 · Mason McCormick · aggregate +0.90185. Howard#185 · Will Howard · aggregate +0.6593. Washington#93 · Darnell Washington · aggregate +0.54226. Bruener#226 · Carson Bruener · aggregate +0.43241. Trice#241 · Cory Trice · aggregate +0.4232. Jr.#32 · Joey Porter Jr. · aggregate +0.40229. Kent#229 · Donte Kent · aggregate +0.4051. Frazier#51 · Zach Frazier · aggregate +0.39132. Herbig#132 · Nick Herbig · aggregate +0.34164. Black#164 · Yahya Black · aggregate +0.26178. Lee#178 · Logan Lee · aggregate +0.02195. Watts#195 · Ryan Watts · aggregate +0.01123. Sawyer#123 · Jack Sawyer · aggregate -0.1298. Wilson#98 · Payton Wilson · aggregate -0.2583. Johnson#83 · Kaleb Johnson · aggregate -0.2814. Jones#14 · Broderick Jones · aggregate -0.3584. Wilson#84 · Roman Wilson · aggregate -0.3620. Fautanu#20 · Troy Fautanu · aggregate -0.5221. Harmon#21 · Derrick Harmon · aggregate -0.53

Incremental contribution by season

-6-4-20+2+4+6+82023 · Nick Herbig · incremental +0.232023 · Cory Trice · incremental +0.262023 · Joey Porter Jr. · incremental +0.292023 · Darnell Washington · incremental +0.402023 · Spencer Anderson · incremental +0.412023 · Keeanu Benton · incremental +0.482023 · Broderick Jones · incremental -0.342024 · Logan Lee · incremental +0.072024 · Nick Herbig · incremental +0.332024 · Zach Frazier · incremental +0.472024 · Joey Porter Jr. · incremental +0.502024 · Darnell Washington · incremental +0.552024 · Cory Trice · incremental +0.572024 · Spencer Anderson · incremental +0.892024 · Keeanu Benton · incremental +0.932024 · Mason McCormick · incremental +1.102024 · Troy Fautanu · incremental +2.772024 · Ryan Watts · incremental -0.062024 · Payton Wilson · incremental -0.092024 · Broderick Jones · incremental -0.192024 · Roman Wilson · incremental -0.442025 · Nick Herbig · incremental +0.422025 · Joey Porter Jr. · incremental +0.442025 · Zach Frazier · incremental +0.572025 · Darnell Washington · incremental +0.612025 · Donte Kent · incremental +0.802025 · Yahya Black · incremental +0.922025 · Spencer Anderson · incremental +0.982025 · Carson Bruener · incremental +1.062025 · Keeanu Benton · incremental +1.112025 · Mason McCormick · incremental +1.302025 · Will Howard · incremental +1.452025 · Payton Wilson · incremental -0.102025 · Logan Lee · incremental -0.122025 · Broderick Jones · incremental -0.132025 · Roman Wilson · incremental -0.422025 · Kaleb Johnson · incremental -0.652025 · Derrick Harmon · incremental -1.382025 · Troy Fautanu · incremental -4.22Benton +0.5Benton +0.9Fautanu +2.8Benton +1.1Fautanu -4.220237 players202414 players202518 players
Above expectationBelow expectationKeeanu BentonGM total +4.3Keeanu Benton by season +2.5

How much retained production did Keeanu Benton return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: NTs drafted within ±5 picks of Keeanu Benton since 2010 (1 player).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.

-1-0.50Model value above slot49. BentonKeeanu Benton · model value +0.5+0.552. PhillipsJordan Phillips · model value -1.1
Keeanu BentonSlot-similar peers (1)

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.

'24'250917263401Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (3 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2023PIT1745320.647.5
2024PIT17137011.2710.0
2025PIT17177801.879.0

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