← 1986 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R6 · #143 OVERALL · LB

Burnell Dent

Drafted by GB · GM Forrest Gregg · Tulane

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played95
Games started11
Weighted career AV10
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons7

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1986 · Round 6 · #143

GB draft credit

GM Forrest Gregg

Team games95
Team starts11
On-team AV12
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.50 contribution8th of 20 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Burnell Dent was Forrest Gregg's 8th-best of 20 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.50. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Forrest Gregg'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
95
on drafting team
Games started
11
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
12
modeled; full weighted AV 10
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 Forrest Gregg's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Forrest Gregg pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Burnell Dent totals +0.50. 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

-10+1+2+3125. Noble#125 · Brian Noble · aggregate +3.04Noble +3.084. Harris#84 · Tim Harris · aggregate +2.62Harris +2.6153. Wright#153 · Randy Wright · aggregate +1.6171. Moran#71 · Rich Moran · aggregate +1.38126. Flynn#126 · Tom Flynn · aggregate +1.2799. Dorsey#99 · John Dorsey · aggregate +0.7772. Humphrey#72 · Donnie Humphrey · aggregate +0.72143. Dent#143 · Burnell Dent · aggregate +0.50Dent +0.5182. Ellerson#182 · Gary Ellerson · aggregate +0.32181. Jones#181 · Daryll Jones · aggregate +0.13155. Lewis#155 · Mark Lewis · aggregate -0.00183. Berry#183 · Ed Berry · aggregate -0.0112. Carreker#12 · Alphonso Carreker · aggregate -0.1898. Stanley#98 · Walter Stanley · aggregate -0.30125. Koart#125 · Matt Koart · aggregate -0.3372. Bosco#72 · Robbie Bosco · aggregate -0.45171. Wilson#171 · Eric Wilson · aggregate -0.517. Ruettgers#7 · Ken Ruettgers · aggregate -0.7198. Knight#98 · Dan Knight · aggregate -0.8741. Davis#41 · Kenneth Davis · aggregate -1.99

Incremental contribution by season

-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+3+41984 · Daryll Jones · incremental +0.141984 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.211984 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.231984 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.521984 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.811984 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental -0.471985 · Daryll Jones · incremental +0.031985 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041985 · Mark Lewis · incremental +0.071985 · Gary Ellerson · incremental +0.141985 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.221985 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.271985 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.301985 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.421985 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.741985 · Rich Moran · incremental -0.041985 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.201985 · Eric Wilson · incremental -0.871985 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental -4.331986 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.071986 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.081986 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.131986 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.171986 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.271986 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.291986 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301986 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.341986 · Gary Ellerson · incremental +0.391986 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.651986 · Randy Wright · incremental +1.161986 · Ed Berry · incremental -0.051986 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.091986 · Mark Lewis · incremental -0.131986 · Matt Koart · incremental -0.611986 · Robbie Bosco · incremental -0.731986 · Dan Knight · incremental -1.411986 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -1.731987 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041987 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.131987 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.191987 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.221987 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.241987 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.331987 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.531987 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.581987 · Mark Lewis · incremental -0.061987 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.141987 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -0.821988 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041988 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.071988 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.271988 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.331988 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.421988 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.431988 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.431988 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.491988 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.081988 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -0.541989 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.201989 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301989 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.461989 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.671989 · Tim Harris · incremental +3.171990 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.161990 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.181990 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.201990 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.321990 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.611991 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.081991 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.171991 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.451991 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.701992 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.141992 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.231992 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301992 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.451993 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.091993 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.091993 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301994 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.311995 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.291996 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.04Ruettgers -4.3Dent +0.1Davis -1.7Dent +0.1Dent +0.1Dent +0.2Harris +3.2Dent +0.2Dent +0.2Dent +0.119846 players198513 players198618 players198711 players198810 players19895 players19905 players19914 players19924 players19933 players19941 player19951 player19961 player
Above expectationBelow expectationBurnell DentGM total +7.0Burnell Dent by season +1.0

How much retained production did Burnell Dent 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 Burnell Dent since 2010 (20 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+1+1.5Model value above slot144. SmithTelvin Smith · model value +1.6146. McFaddenMicah McFadden · model value +0.9148. GreenlawDre Greenlaw · model value +0.7148. SewellNoah Sewell · model value +0.1143. DentBurnell Dent · model value 00138. WhiteheadTahir Whitehead · model value -0.1148. BrownBlair Brown · model value -0.1139. MageeJordan Magee · model value -0.2140. MillerGabe Miller · model value -0.2147. CarderTank Carder · model value -0.2143. ConnellyRyan Connelly · model value -0.3139. ShemboPrince Shembo · model value -0.3147. JosephVosean Joseph · model value -0.4143. BertrandJD Bertrand · model value -0.4140. QuartermanShaquille Quarterman · model value -0.4140. JohnsonBuddy Johnson · model value -0.4142. Burr-KirvenBen Burr-Kirven · model value -0.5148. EichenbergTommy Eichenberg · model value -0.6142. MarshallBrandon Marshall · model value -0.6148. KleinA.J. Klein · model value -0.7140. GoodeNajee Goode · model value -0.8
Burnell DentSlot-similar peers (20)

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.

'86'88'90'9203681101Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (7 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1986GB1611
1987GB901
1988GB1032
1989GB1612
1990GB1522
1991GB1412
1992GB1532

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