NO draft credit
GM Mike Ditka
Team games36
Team starts31
On-team AV8
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-0.91 contribution14th of 16 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Cam Cleeland
Drafted by NO · GM Mike Ditka · Washington
All NFL teams
Full-career context
These totals follow Cam Cleeland across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.
Games played89
Games started54
Weighted career AV9
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons8
Accountability by draft event
What each drafting team received
Long-career hit
Cam Cleeland became a 8-season, 89-game NFL player after going #40. The retained-value model still ranks him 14th of 16 for Mike Ditka because NO only got 36 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.91. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Ditka'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
36
on drafting team · 89 full-career
Games started
31
on drafting team · 54 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
8
modeled; full weighted AV 9
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 Mike Ditka's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Ditka pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Cam Cleeland totals -0.91. 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 expectationCam CleelandGM total -8.6Cam Cleeland by season -1.4
How much retained production did Cam Cleeland return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: TEs drafted within ±5 picks of Cam Cleeland since 2010 (12 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.
Cam CleelandSlot-similar peers (12)
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 (8 scored seasons)
| Year | Team | GP | GS | Snaps | Snap-z | AV | AV/snap | PB | AP1 | AP2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | NO | 16 | 16 | — | — | 5 | — | |||
| 1999 | NO | 11 | 8 | — | — | 2 | — | |||
| 2000 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | — | |||
| 2001 | NO | 9 | 7 | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| 2002 | NE | 12 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| 2003 | LAR | 16 | 10 | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| 2004 | LAR | 16 | 9 | — | — | 0 | — | |||
| 2005 | LAR | 9 | 3 | — | — | 0 | — |
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.