David Bowens · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played167

Games started41

Weighted career AV31

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons12

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1999 · Round 5 · #158

DEN draft credit

GM Mike Shanahan

Team games16

Team starts0

On-team AV2

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-2.86 contribution110th of 111 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

David Bowens became a 12-season, 167-game NFL player after going #158. The retained-value model still ranks him 110th of 111 for Mike Shanahan because DEN only got 16 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.86. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Shanahan'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

on drafting team · 167 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 41 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 31

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

all on drafting team

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Mike Shanahan's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Shanahan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. David Bowens totals -2.86. 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

Incremental contribution by season

Above expectationBelow expectationDavid BowensGM total +5.7David Bowens by season -4.4

How much retained production did David Bowens return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DEs drafted within ±5 picks of David Bowens since 2010 (19 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.

David BowensSlot-similar peers (19)

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.

Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (12 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1999	DEN	16	0	—	—	2	—
2000	GB	14	0	—	—	2	—
2001	MIA	8	0	—	—	1	—
2002	MIA	14	0	—	—	1	—
2003	MIA	4	0	—	—	0	—
2004	MIA	16	15	—	—	8	—
2005	MIA	16	0	—	—	2	—
2006	MIA	16	0	—	—	3	—
2007	NYJ	16	2	—	—	2	—
2008	NYJ	16	5	—	—	4	—
2009	CLE	16	15	—	—	7	—
2010	CLE	15	4	—	—	4	—

How to read this

The current model groups outcomes into three buckets: opportunity (games, starts, snap-z), quality (on-team AV, AV/snap quality when available), and recognition (Pro Bowl, AP1).
Season rows show full-career context across every team. The draft-credit cards above contain the team-specific totals used for GM accountability. Snap-z is position/year-normalized playing time; AV/snap is shown as AV per 1,000 snaps where snap evidence exists.
AP2, full-career AV, HOF, and All-Decade are displayed as context only. They are not active outcomes in the current θ model.
Pre-2013 playing-time rows may show "—" where weekly snap evidence is unavailable; AV/snap quality is snap-era only.