Tedy Bruschi · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played189

Games started139

Weighted career AV70

Pro Bowls1

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons13

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1996 · Round 3 · #86

NE draft credit

GM Bill Parcells

Team games189

Team starts139

On-team AV88

On-team PB / AP11 / 0

Excellent+3.98 contribution1st of 61 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Tedy Bruschi was Bill Parcells's 1st-best of 61 picks across his career, the best pick of the entire tenure.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +3.98. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bill Parcells'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

189

on drafting team

Games started

139

on drafting team

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 70

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 2

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Bill Parcells's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Bill Parcells pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Tedy Bruschi totals +3.98. 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 expectationTedy BruschiGM total +0.9Tedy Bruschi by season +6.1

How much retained production did Tedy Bruschi 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 Tedy Bruschi since 2010 (16 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.

Tedy BruschiSlot-similar peers (16)

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 (13 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP2
1996	NE	16	0	—	—	2	—
1997	NE	16	1	—	—	3	—
1998	NE	16	7	—	—	4	—
1999	NE	14	14	—	—	7	—
2000	NE	16	16	—	—	7	—
2001	NE	15	9	—	—	6	—
2002	NE	11	9	—	—	5	—
2003	NE	16	16	—	—	15	—		·
2004	NE	16	16	—	—	13	—	✓	·
2005	NE	9	9	—	—	4	—
2006	NE	15	14	—	—	9	—
2007	NE	16	16	—	—	7	—
2008	NE	13	12	—	—	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.