← 1981 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R6 · #140 OVERALL · DE

Steve Durham

Drafted by SEA · GM John Thompson · Clemson

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played8
Games started0
Weighted career AV1
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons2

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1981 · Round 6 · #140

SEA draft credit

GM John Thompson

Team games0
Team starts0
On-team AV0
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Bad-0.54 contribution7th of 14 picks for this GM

Games: complete career recorded elsewhere. Starts: zero starts from zero team games.

A Bad pick

Steve Durham was John Thompson's 7th-best of 14 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.54. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Thompson'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
0
on drafting team · 8 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
0
modeled; full weighted AV 1
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 John Thompson's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Thompson pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Steve Durham totals -0.54. 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

-2-10+1+2+3+4+5+6+74. Easley#4 · Kenny Easley · aggregate +7.77Easley +7.810. Green#10 · Jacob Green · aggregate +2.76Green +2.8114. Bailey#114 · Edwin Bailey · aggregate +2.41Bailey +2.431. Hughes#31 · David Hughes · aggregate -0.10186. Scovill#186 · Brad Scovill · aggregate -0.27153. McNeal#153 · Mark McNeal · aggregate -0.53140. Durham#140 · Steve Durham · aggregate -0.54Durham -0.5132. Jacobs#132 · Daniel Jacobs · aggregate -0.6297. Dion#97 · Terry Dion · aggregate -0.63127. Steele#127 · Joe Steele · aggregate -0.7287. Phillips#87 · Scott Phillips · aggregate -0.9158. Dugan#58 · Bill Dugan · aggregate -1.3544. Hines#44 · Andre Hines · aggregate -1.44170. Johnson#170 · Ron Johnson · aggregate -2.08Johnson -2.1

Incremental contribution by season

-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+3+41980 · Mark McNeal · incremental -0.931980 · Terry Dion · incremental -1.031980 · Daniel Jacobs · incremental -1.061980 · Joe Steele · incremental -1.181980 · Jacob Green · incremental -1.251980 · Andre Hines · incremental -2.271981 · Kenny Easley · incremental +0.341981 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.441981 · Edwin Bailey · incremental -0.191981 · David Hughes · incremental -0.221981 · Brad Scovill · incremental -0.641981 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.921981 · Steve Durham · incremental -0.941981 · Scott Phillips · incremental -1.471981 · Ron Johnson · incremental -3.291982 · David Hughes · incremental +0.031982 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.341982 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.341982 · Kenny Easley · incremental +1.411982 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.641983 · David Hughes · incremental +0.051983 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.231983 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.461983 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.551983 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.501984 · David Hughes · incremental +0.051984 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.321984 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.511984 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.631985 · David Hughes · incremental +0.031985 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.511985 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.531985 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.521986 · Kenny Easley · incremental +0.241986 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.411986 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.491987 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.341987 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.451987 · Kenny Easley · incremental +1.321988 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.441988 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.571989 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.421989 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.511990 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.371990 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.531991 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.091991 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.51Hines -2.3Durham -0.9Johnson -3.3Easley +3.6Easley +3.6Easley +3.519806 players19819 players19825 players19835 players19844 players19854 players19863 players19873 players19882 players19892 players19902 players19912 players
Above expectationBelow expectationSteve DurhamGM total +3.7Steve Durham by season -0.9

How much retained production did Steve Durham 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 Steve Durham since 2010 (15 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+0.5Model value above slot137. LowryDean Lowry · model value +0.6139. Ingram-DawkinsTyrion Ingram-Dawkins · model value +0.2138. ThomasXavier Thomas · model value 0137. HenryK.J. Henry · model value 0142. SheffieldCameron Sheffield · model value 0143. HartLarry Hart · model value 0142. EdwardsLavar Edwards · model value -0.1141. HartTaylor Hart · model value -0.1140. DurhamSteve Durham · model value -0.1-0.1136. WebsterLarry Webster · model value -0.2135. HardisonMarcus Hardison · model value -0.2135. CominskyJohn Cominsky · model value -0.2138. MillerShareef Miller · model value -0.3144. KaindohJoshua Kaindoh · model value -0.3142. BlairRonald Blair · model value -0.3135. Franklin-MyersJohn Franklin-Myers · model value -0.7
Steve DurhamSlot-similar peers (15)

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.

'82'84'850011101Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (5 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1981000
1982IND801
1983000
1984000
1985000

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