Terrible-1.78 contribution26th of 34 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Ross Cockrell became a 8-season, 97-game NFL player after going #109. The retained-value model still ranks him 26th of 34 for Doug Whaley because BUF only got 7 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.78. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Doug Whaley'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
7
on drafting team · 97 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team · 49 full-career
Snap-z
-2.4
2 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
0
modeled; full weighted AV 20
AV / 1k snaps
0.0
71 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 Doug Whaley's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Doug Whaley pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Ross Cockrell totals -1.78. 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 expectationRoss CockrellGM total -16.2Ross Cockrell by season -3.7
How much retained production did Ross Cockrell return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DBs drafted within ±5 picks of Ross Cockrell since 2010 (17 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.
Ross CockrellSlot-similar peers (17)
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 (8 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2014
BUF
7
0
71
-1.2
0
0.0
2015
PIT
15
11
710
0.5
4
5.6
2016
PIT
16
16
1,093
1.7
7
6.4
2017
NYG
16
11
793
0.8
4
5.0
2018
BUF
0
0
0
-1.3
0
—
2019
CAR
14
13
837
1.1
4
4.8
2020
TB
12
7
393
-0.1
1
2.5
2021
TB
17
14
721
0.8
2
2.8
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.
