← 1995 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R7 · #241 OVERALL · DT

Chad Eaton

Drafted by ARI · GM Larry Wilson · Washington St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played103
Games started77
Weighted career AV36
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1995 · Round 7 · #241

ARI draft credit

GM Larry Wilson

Team games0
Team starts0
On-team AV0
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-1.90 contribution18th of 19 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Chad Eaton became a 10-season, 103-game NFL player after going #241. The retained-value model still ranks him 18th of 19 for Larry Wilson because ARI only got 0 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.90. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Larry Wilson's leaderboard composite θ.

Full-career context prevents this from being labeled as a bad talent pick: the negative model score is about retained team value, not whether the draft identified an NFL-caliber player.

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 · 103 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team · 77 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
0
modeled; full weighted AV 36
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 Larry Wilson's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Larry Wilson pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Chad Eaton totals -1.90. 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

-4-3-2-10+1+247. Sanders#47 · Frank Sanders · aggregate +2.67Sanders +2.7115. Irving#115 · Terry Irving · aggregate +0.95139. Redmon#139 · Anthony Redmon · aggregate +0.79167. Paul#167 · Tito Paul · aggregate +0.49172. Samuels#172 · Terry Samuels · aggregate +0.32224. Leasy#224 · Wesley Leasy · aggregate +0.2489. England#89 · Eric England · aggregate +0.08205. Bridges#205 · Anthony Bridges · aggregate -0.04212. Williams#212 · Billy Williams · aggregate -0.06204. Harvey#204 · Frank Harvey · aggregate -0.07150. Davis#150 · Cedric Davis · aggregate -0.22113. Reece#113 · John Reece · aggregate -0.39165. Scott#165 · Lance Scott · aggregate -0.41107. Carter#107 · Perry Carter · aggregate -0.4380. Case#80 · Stoney Case · aggregate -0.4710. Miller#10 · Jamir Miller · aggregate -0.7138. Levy#38 · Chuck Levy · aggregate -1.02241. Eaton#241 · Chad Eaton · aggregate -1.90Eaton -1.976. Braham#76 · Rich Braham · aggregate -4.79Braham -4.8

Incremental contribution by season

-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+21994 · Eric England · incremental +0.011994 · Anthony Redmon · incremental +0.101994 · Terry Irving · incremental +0.291994 · Terry Samuels · incremental +0.391994 · Frank Harvey · incremental -0.171994 · Jamir Miller · incremental -0.631994 · John Reece · incremental -0.731994 · Perry Carter · incremental -0.781994 · Chuck Levy · incremental -1.551994 · Rich Braham · incremental -7.571995 · Terry Samuels · incremental +0.041995 · Eric England · incremental +0.141995 · Wesley Leasy · incremental +0.181995 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.201995 · Anthony Redmon · incremental +0.271995 · Tito Paul · incremental +0.361995 · Terry Irving · incremental +0.471995 · Jamir Miller · incremental -0.041995 · Stoney Case · incremental -0.161995 · Billy Williams · incremental -0.161995 · Anthony Bridges · incremental -0.171995 · Cedric Davis · incremental -0.461995 · Lance Scott · incremental -0.721995 · Chad Eaton · incremental -2.961996 · Eric England · incremental +0.031996 · Wesley Leasy · incremental +0.231996 · Terry Irving · incremental +0.291996 · Tito Paul · incremental +0.381996 · Anthony Redmon · incremental +0.461996 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.631996 · Jamir Miller · incremental -0.091997 · Tito Paul · incremental +0.011997 · Terry Irving · incremental +0.421997 · Anthony Redmon · incremental +0.451997 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.631997 · Jamir Miller · incremental -0.091997 · Stoney Case · incremental -0.601998 · Terry Irving · incremental +0.141998 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.671998 · Jamir Miller · incremental -0.111999 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.632000 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.612001 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.522002 · Frank Sanders · incremental +0.42Levy -1.6Braham -7.6Eaton -3.0199410 players199514 players19967 players19976 players19983 players19991 player20001 player20011 player20021 player
Above expectationBelow expectationChad EatonGM total -5.0Chad Eaton by season -3.0

How much retained production did Chad Eaton return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Chad Eaton since 2010 (14 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 slot236. TysonDeAngelo Tyson · model value +0.8239. KuhnMarkus Kuhn · model value +0.3243. OwensJeff Owens · model value +0.1241. HowardDavid Howard · model value 0245. JasperMichael Jasper · model value 0241. SmithJared Smith · model value 0244. HesterTreyvon Hester · model value 0242. BroughtonCortez Broughton · model value -0.1246. CarrellJordan Carrell · model value -0.1242. NortonKendrick Norton · model value -0.1246. FrazierJoshua Frazier · model value -0.1242. WorthingtonDoug Worthington · model value -0.1245. SlaytonChris Slayton · model value -0.1238. MathewsRicardo Mathews · model value -0.5241. EatonChad Eaton · model value -0.8-0.8
Chad EatonSlot-similar peers (14)

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.

'96'98'00'02'0401939587701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1995000
1996NE400
1997NE1612
1998NE15147
1999NE16169
2000NE14136
2001SEA16168
2002SEA16167
2003000
2004DAL611

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