← 2008 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R5 · #147 OVERALL · LB

Alvin Bowen

Drafted by BUF · GM Russ Brandon era · Iowa St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played2
Games started0
Weighted career AV0
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons3

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2008 · Round 5 · #147

BUF draft credit

GM Russ Brandon era

Team games0
Team starts0
On-team AV0
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Bad-0.57 contribution8th of 10 picks for this GM

Games: complete career recorded elsewhere. Starts: zero starts from zero team games.

A Bad pick

Alvin Bowen was Russ Brandon era's 8th-best of 10 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.57. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Russ Brandon era'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
0
on drafting team · 2 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
0
modeled; full weighted AV 0
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
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 Russ Brandon era's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Russ Brandon era pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Alvin Bowen totals -0.57. 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

-10+1224. Johnson#224 · Stevie Johnson · aggregate +1.45219. Bell#219 · Demetress Bell · aggregate +0.94114. Corner#114 · Reggie Corner · aggregate +0.66132. Fine#132 · Derek Fine · aggregate +0.15251. Cox#251 · Kennard Cox · aggregate -0.06179. Omon#179 · Xavier Omon · aggregate -0.2172. Ellis#72 · Chris Ellis · aggregate -0.51147. Bowen#147 · Alvin Bowen · aggregate -0.57Bowen -0.641. Hardy#41 · James Hardy · aggregate -0.9411. McKelvin#11 · Leodis McKelvin · aggregate -1.17

Incremental contribution by season

-5-4-3-2-10+12008 · Derek Fine · incremental +0.032008 · Reggie Corner · incremental +0.222008 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +1.242008 · Demetress Bell · incremental -0.022008 · Xavier Omon · incremental -0.172008 · Kennard Cox · incremental -0.202008 · Chris Ellis · incremental -0.262008 · Alvin Bowen · incremental -0.972008 · James Hardy · incremental -1.392008 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental -2.442009 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.002009 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +0.062009 · Derek Fine · incremental +0.082009 · Demetress Bell · incremental +0.382009 · Reggie Corner · incremental +0.432009 · James Hardy · incremental -0.052009 · Chris Ellis · incremental -0.062009 · Xavier Omon · incremental -0.192010 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.032010 · Reggie Corner · incremental +0.272010 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +0.652010 · Demetress Bell · incremental +0.762010 · Chris Ellis · incremental -0.522011 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.042011 · Reggie Corner · incremental +0.192011 · Demetress Bell · incremental +0.332011 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +0.712012 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.022012 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +0.742013 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.012013 · Stevie Johnson · incremental +0.492014 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.002015 · Leodis McKelvin · incremental +0.01Bowen -1.0McKelvin -2.4200810 players20098 players20105 players20114 players20122 players20132 players20141 player20151 player
Above expectationBelow expectationAlvin BowenGM total -0.3Alvin Bowen by season -1.0

How much retained production did Alvin Bowen return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: LBs drafted within ±5 picks of Alvin Bowen since 2010 (17 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+1+1.5Model value above slot144. SmithTelvin Smith · model value +1.6146. McFaddenMicah McFadden · model value +0.9148. GreenlawDre Greenlaw · model value +0.7151. WilliamsonAvery Williamson · model value +0.5151. GinkelAndrew Van Ginkel · model value +0.3148. SewellNoah Sewell · model value +0.1148. BrownBlair Brown · model value -0.1147. BowenAlvin Bowen · model value -0.2-0.2147. CarderTank Carder · model value -0.2143. ConnellyRyan Connelly · model value -0.3147. JosephVosean Joseph · model value -0.4143. BertrandJD Bertrand · model value -0.4142. Burr-KirvenBen Burr-Kirven · model value -0.5148. EichenbergTommy Eichenberg · model value -0.6142. MarshallBrandon Marshall · model value -0.6150. AveryGenard Avery · model value -0.6152. JamesShemar James · model value -0.7148. KleinA.J. Klein · model value -0.7
Alvin BowenSlot-similar peers (17)

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.

'08'10'120011101Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (5 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2008000
2009000
2010JAX200
2011000
2012000

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