Terrible-1.48 contribution22nd of 26 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Andre Branch became a 7-season, 95-game NFL player after going #38. The retained-value model still ranks him 22nd of 26 for Gene Smith because JAX only got 51 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.48. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Gene Smith'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
51
on drafting team · 95 full-career
Games started
12
on drafting team · 38 full-career
Snap-z
0.6
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
10
modeled; full weighted AV 22
AV / 1k snaps
5.0
1,604 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.2
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 Gene Smith's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Gene Smith pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Andre Branch totals -1.48. 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 expectationAndre BranchGM total -19.7Andre Branch by season -3.3
How much retained production did Andre Branch 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 Andre Branch since 2010 (11 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.
Andre BranchSlot-similar peers (11)
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 BowlsAP1 All-ProAP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (7 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2012
JAX
13
3
—
—
2
—
2013
JAX
16
11
672
0.6
2
3.0
2014
JAX
9
5
334
-0.4
1
3.0
2015
JAX
13
10
598
0.5
5
8.4
2016
MIA
16
12
868
1.6
6
6.9
2017
MIA
14
12
568
0.5
6
10.6
2018
MIA
14
10
522
0.4
2
3.8
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.
