← 1981 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R2 · #47 OVERALL · RB

Tony Collins

Drafted by NE · GM Bucko Kilroy · East Carolina

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played103
Games started83
Weighted career AV47
Pro Bowls1
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1981 · Round 2 · #47

NE draft credit

GM Bucko Kilroy

Team games102
Team starts83
On-team AV54
On-team PB / AP11 / 0
Excellent+1.40 contribution6th of 25 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Tony Collins was Bucko Kilroy's 6th-best of 25 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +1.40. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bucko Kilroy'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
102
on drafting team · 103 full-career
Games started
83
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
54
modeled; full weighted AV 47
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
1
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 Bucko Kilroy's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Bucko Kilroy pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Tony Collins totals +1.40. 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

-6-4-20+2+4+641. Tippett#41 · Andre Tippett · aggregate +7.88Tippett +7.9112. Marion#112 · Fred Marion · aggregate +3.65Marion +3.6157. Wooten#157 · Ron Wooten · aggregate +2.51Wooten +2.519. Holloway#19 · Brian Holloway · aggregate +2.28Holloway +2.3102. Blackmon#102 · Don Blackmon · aggregate +2.23Blackmon +2.247. Collins#47 · Tony Collins · aggregate +1.40Collins +1.445. McGrew#45 · Larry McGrew · aggregate +0.3014. James#14 · Roland James · aggregate +0.2156. Jones#56 · Cedric Jones · aggregate +0.07185. Toler#185 · Ken Toler · aggregate -0.0560. Weishuhn#60 · Clayton Weishuhn · aggregate -0.19160. Brown#160 · Preston Brown · aggregate -0.25141. Smith#141 · Ricky Smith · aggregate -0.3055. Haley#55 · Darryl Haley · aggregate -0.4740. Weathers#40 · Robert Weathers · aggregate -0.47130. Clark#130 · Steve Clark · aggregate -0.50124. McDougald#124 · Doug McDougald · aggregate -0.51168. Roberts#168 · Jeff Roberts · aggregate -0.62111. Ingram#111 · Brian Ingram · aggregate -0.6425. Ferguson#25 · Vagas Ferguson · aggregate -0.6585. Crump#85 · George Crump · aggregate -0.66180. Kearns#180 · Tom Kearns · aggregate -0.6927. Williams#27 · Lester Williams · aggregate -0.691. Sims#1 · Kenneth Sims · aggregate -1.2973. McMichael#73 · Steve McMichael · aggregate -6.55McMichael -6.5

Incremental contribution by season

-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-20+2+4+6+81980 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.101980 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.741980 · Doug McDougald · incremental -0.881980 · Tom Kearns · incremental -1.141980 · Larry McGrew · incremental -1.811980 · Roland James · incremental -2.871980 · Steve McMichael · incremental -10.491981 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.061981 · Roland James · incremental +0.221981 · Ken Toler · incremental -0.071981 · Brian Holloway · incremental -0.101981 · Tony Collins · incremental -0.131981 · Ron Wooten · incremental -0.141981 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.231981 · Steve Clark · incremental -0.841982 · Ken Toler · incremental +0.021982 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.131982 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171982 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.181982 · Roland James · incremental +0.181982 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.301982 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.371982 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.531982 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.021982 · Fred Marion · incremental -0.031982 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.221982 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.221982 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.281982 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.301982 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.481982 · Cedric Jones · incremental -0.561982 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.711982 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.721982 · Jeff Roberts · incremental -1.041982 · George Crump · incremental -1.101982 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -1.331983 · Brian Ingram · incremental +0.001983 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081983 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171983 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.251983 · Roland James · incremental +0.371983 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.461983 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.521983 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.601983 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.641983 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.201983 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.011983 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.021983 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.101983 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.161983 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.161983 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.371984 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011984 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121984 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.201984 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.281984 · Roland James · incremental +0.331984 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.491984 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651984 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701984 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.231984 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.401984 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.011984 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.011984 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.051984 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111984 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141984 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.341985 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011985 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141985 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.251985 · Roland James · incremental +0.371985 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.371985 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561985 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.621985 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.221985 · Fred Marion · incremental +1.631985 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.251985 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111985 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141985 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.211986 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.151986 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.271986 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.271986 · Roland James · incremental +0.341986 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.401986 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651986 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671986 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701986 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.301986 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021986 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.021986 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.051986 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.121987 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081987 · Roland James · incremental +0.131987 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.171987 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.231987 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.291987 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.531987 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.551987 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.191987 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.091988 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141988 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301988 · Roland James · incremental +0.341988 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561988 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671988 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.331988 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021989 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.071989 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301989 · Roland James · incremental +0.301989 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.601989 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.121990 · Roland James · incremental +0.101990 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121990 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.401990 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.621991 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.421991 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.561992 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.431993 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.58McGrew -1.8James -2.9McMichael -10.5Collins -0.1Collins +0.3Collins +0.5Collins +0.2Collins +0.4Marion +1.6Tippett +3.3Collins +0.4Collins +0.3Tippett +3.219807 players19818 players198221 players198316 players198416 players198513 players198613 players19879 players19887 players19895 players19904 players19912 players19921 player19931 player
Above expectationBelow expectationTony CollinsGM total +6.0Tony Collins by season +1.9

How much retained production did Tony Collins return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: RBs drafted within ±5 picks of Tony Collins since 2010 (9 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.

0+0.5+1Model value above slot45. HenryDerrick Henry · model value +1.348. BellLe'Veon Bell · model value +1.147. CollinsTony Collins · model value +0.9+0.948. MixonJoe Mixon · model value +0.852. CharbonnetZach Charbonnet · model value +0.151. GerhartToby Gerhart · model value 052. AkersCam Akers · model value -0.143. JohnsonKerryon Johnson · model value -0.246. BrooksJonathon Brooks · model value -0.350. PeadIsaiah Pead · model value -0.5
Tony CollinsSlot-similar peers (9)

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.

'82'84'86'88'9002142628301Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1981NE16117
1982NE9910
1983NE16168
1984NE1654
1985NE16168
1986NE161510
1987NE13117
1988000
1989000
1990MIA100

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