← 2024 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R3 · #69 OVERALL · LB

Junior Colson

Drafted by LAC · GM Joe Hortiz · Michigan

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played11
Games started1
Weighted career AV1
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons1

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2024 · Round 3 · #69

LAC draft credit

GM Joe Hortiz

Team games11
Team starts1
On-team AV1
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Average-0.35 contribution15th of 18 picks for this GM

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

An Average pick

Junior Colson was Joe Hortiz's 15th-best of 18 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.35. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Joe Hortiz'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
11
on drafting team
Games started
1
on drafting team
Snap-z
-0.4
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
1
modeled; full weighted AV 1
AV / 1k snaps
3.2
312 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.3
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 Joe Hortiz's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Joe Hortiz pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Junior Colson totals -0.35. 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

0+1165. II#165 · Oronde Gadsden II · aggregate +1.90137. Still#137 · Tarheeb Still · aggregate +1.2734. McConkey#34 · Ladd McConkey · aggregate +1.06214. Mickens#214 · R.J. Mickens · aggregate +0.72181. Vidal#181 · Kimani Vidal · aggregate +0.65140. Hart#140 · Cam Hart · aggregate +0.55225. Rice#225 · Brenden Rice · aggregate +0.49256. Bridges#256 · Trikweze Bridges · aggregate +0.38158. Lambert-Smith#158 · KeAndre Lambert-Smith · aggregate +0.22199. Taylor#199 · Branson Taylor · aggregate +0.15253. Johnson#253 · Cornelius Johnson · aggregate +0.14125. Kennard#125 · Kyle Kennard · aggregate +0.0586. Caldwell#86 · Jamaree Caldwell · aggregate +0.015. Alt#5 · Joe Alt · aggregate -0.2969. Colson#69 · Junior Colson · aggregate -0.35Colson -0.3105. Eboigbe#105 · Justin Eboigbe · aggregate -0.3955. Harris#55 · Tre Harris · aggregate -0.3922. Hampton#22 · Omarion Hampton · aggregate -0.82

Incremental contribution by season

-20+2+4+6+8+10+122024 · Justin Eboigbe · incremental +0.092024 · Cornelius Johnson · incremental +0.202024 · Cam Hart · incremental +0.572024 · Ladd McConkey · incremental +1.082024 · Brenden Rice · incremental +1.152024 · Tarheeb Still · incremental +1.642024 · Kimani Vidal · incremental -0.102024 · Junior Colson · incremental -0.702024 · Joe Alt · incremental -1.872025 · Kyle Kennard · incremental +0.052025 · Cornelius Johnson · incremental +0.062025 · Jamaree Caldwell · incremental +0.182025 · Branson Taylor · incremental +0.392025 · Trikweze Bridges · incremental +0.532025 · KeAndre Lambert-Smith · incremental +0.572025 · Joe Alt · incremental +0.782025 · Cam Hart · incremental +0.942025 · Ladd McConkey · incremental +1.242025 · Tarheeb Still · incremental +1.512025 · R.J. Mickens · incremental +1.522025 · Kimani Vidal · incremental +1.762025 · Oronde Gadsden II · incremental +4.132025 · Tre Harris · incremental -0.772025 · Justin Eboigbe · incremental -0.852025 · Omarion Hampton · incremental -1.68Still +1.6Colson -0.7Alt -1.9Still +1.5Mickens +1.5Vidal +1.8II +4.1Hampton -1.720249 players202516 players
Above expectationBelow expectationJunior ColsonGM total +5.4Junior Colson by season -0.7

How much retained production did Junior Colson 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 Junior Colson since 2010 (18 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.

-0.50+0.5+1Model value above slot70. HoustonJustin Houston · model value +1.172. PrattGermaine Pratt · model value +0.865. WilsonLogan Wilson · model value +0.373. BrownPreston Brown · model value +0.366. MooreSio Moore · model value +0.267. IrvingNate Irving · model value +0.172. WallaceTrevin Wallace · model value 069. ColsonJunior Colson · model value -0.2-0.272. VernonOlivier Vernon · model value -0.372. WilsonMartez Wilson · model value -0.367. SandersDrew Sanders · model value -0.474. BaunZack Baun · model value -0.466. MochDontay Moch · model value -0.571. KirkseyChristian Kirksey · model value -0.568. SheppardKelvin Sheppard · model value -0.670. MumaChad Muma · model value -0.668. PoliteJachai Polite · model value -0.669. OssaiJoseph Ossai · model value -0.666. AsamoahBrian Asamoah · model value -0.7
Junior ColsonSlot-similar peers (18)

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.

'240134501Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (1 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2024LAC115312-0.413.2

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