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Yahya Black

Drafted by PIT · GM Omar Khan · Iowa

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Full-career context

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

Games played17
Games started3
Weighted career AV2
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons1

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2025 · Round 5 · #164

PIT draft credit

GM Omar Khan

Team games17
Team starts3
On-team AV2
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.26 contribution12th of 21 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Yahya Black was Omar Khan's 12th-best of 21 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.26. 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
17
on drafting team
Games started
3
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.6
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
2
modeled; full weighted AV 2
AV / 1k snaps
3.6
559 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.5
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. Yahya Black totals +0.26. 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 +0.99251. 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 +0.26Black +0.3178. 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 -4.22Fautanu +2.8Black +0.9Fautanu -4.220237 players202414 players202518 players
Above expectationBelow expectationYahya BlackGM total +4.3Yahya Black by season +0.9

How much retained production did Yahya Black return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Yahya Black since 2010 (7 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.

-0.50+0.5+1Model value above slot159. CowartByron Cowart · model value +1.3160. OgbonniaOtito Ogbonnia · model value +0.8165. CarrethersRyan Carrethers · model value +0.3159. JohnsonEric Johnson · model value 0164. BlackYahya Black · model value -0.1-0.1165. OtomewoEsezi Otomewo · model value -0.1160. MackDaylon Mack · model value -0.2163. SettleTim Settle · model value -0.7
Yahya BlackSlot-similar peers (7)

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.

'250123401Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (1 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2025PIT1745590.623.6

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