Alan Branch · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played146

Games started86

Weighted career AV42

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons11

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2007 · Round 2 · #33

ARI draft credit

GM Rod Graves

Team games47

Team starts3

On-team AV6

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-3.25 contribution68th of 70 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Alan Branch became a 11-season, 146-game NFL player after going #33. The retained-value model still ranks him 68th of 70 for Rod Graves because ARI only got 47 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -3.25. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Rod Graves'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 · 146 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 86 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 42

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 Rod Graves's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Rod Graves pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Alan Branch totals -3.25. 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 expectationAlan BranchGM total -11.7Alan Branch by season -5.1

How much retained production did Alan Branch 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 Alan Branch since 2010 (18 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.

Alan BranchSlot-similar peers (18)

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 (11 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
2007	ARI	11	0	—	—	1	—
2008	ARI	4	0	—	—	0	—
2009	ARI	16	0	—	—	2	—
2010	ARI	16	3	—	—	3	—
2011	SEA	15	15	—	—	7	—
2012	SEA	16	16	—	—	8	—
2013	BUF	16	10	701	0.9	6	8.6
2014	NE	8	0	197	-0.8	2	10.2
2015	NE	16	2	546	0.6	7	12.8
2016	NE	16	15	779	1.3	9	11.6
2017	NE	12	1	379	0.0	4	10.6

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.