Chris Doleman · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played232

Games started213

Weighted career AV114

Pro Bowls8

AP1 All-Pro2

Career seasons15

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1985 · Round 1 · #4

MIN draft credit

GM Mike Lynn

Team games154

Team starts142

On-team AV111

On-team PB / AP16 / 2

Excellent+3.38 contribution5th of 70 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Chris Doleman was Mike Lynn's 5th-best of 70 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +3.38. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Lynn'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

154

on drafting team · 232 full-career

Games started

142

on drafting team · 213 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

111

modeled; full weighted AV 114

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

8 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

2 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 2

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Mike Lynn's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Lynn pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Chris Doleman totals +3.38. 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 expectationChris DolemanGM total +15.7Chris Doleman by season +5.5

How much retained production did Chris Doleman return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DEs drafted within ±5 picks of Chris Doleman 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.

Chris DolemanSlot-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 Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (15 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP1	AP2
1985	MIN	16	13	—	—	7	—
1986	MIN	16	9	—	—	6	—
1987	MIN	12	12	—	—	11	—	✓		·
1988	MIN	16	16	—	—	11	—	✓
1989	MIN	16	16	—	—	17	—	✓	★
1990	MIN	16	16	—	—	11	—	✓
1991	MIN	16	16	—	—	8	—
1992	MIN	16	16	—	—	19	—	✓	★
1993	MIN	16	16	—	—	14	—	✓		·
1994	ATL	14	7	—	—	4	—
1995	ATL	16	16	—	—	10	—
1996	SF	16	16	—	—	11	—
1997	SF	16	16	—	—	12	—
1998	SF	16	16	—	—	8	—
1999	MIN	14	12	—	—	7	—

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.