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Ikem Ekwonu

Drafted by CAR · GM Scott Fitterer · North Carolina St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played64
Games started64
Weighted career AV25
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons4

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2022 · Round 1 · #6

CAR draft credit

GM Scott Fitterer

Team games64
Team starts64
On-team AV27
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Bad-0.63 contribution14th of 22 picks for this GM

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

A Bad pick

Ikem Ekwonu was Scott Fitterer's 14th-best of 22 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.63. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Scott Fitterer'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
64
on drafting team
Games started
64
on drafting team
Snap-z
5.3
4 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
27
modeled; full weighted AV 25
AV / 1k snaps
6.4
4,243 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.1
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 Scott Fitterer's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Scott Fitterer pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Ikem Ekwonu totals -0.63. 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+1126. Hubbard#126 · Chuba Hubbard · aggregate +1.468. Horn#8 · Jaycee Horn · aggregate +0.70199. Mays#199 · Cade Mays · aggregate +0.6783. Tremble#83 · Tommy Tremble · aggregate +0.29114. Zavala#114 · Chandler Zavala · aggregate +0.26189. Barno#189 · Amare Barno · aggregate +0.2370. Christensen#70 · Brady Christensen · aggregate -0.20166. Taylor#166 · Keith Taylor · aggregate -0.21145. Robinson#145 · Jammie Robinson · aggregate -0.27204. Smith#204 · Shi Smith · aggregate -0.37242. Barnes#242 · Kalon Barnes · aggregate -0.4959. Jr.#59 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · aggregate -0.581. Young#1 · Bryce Young · aggregate -0.616. Ekwonu#6 · Ikem Ekwonu · aggregate -0.63Ekwonu -0.6232. Hoskins#232 · Phil Hoskins · aggregate -0.6794. Corral#94 · Matt Corral · aggregate -0.7480. Johnson#80 · DJ Johnson · aggregate -0.81120. Smith#120 · Brandon Smith · aggregate -0.95158. Nixon#158 · Daviyon Nixon · aggregate -0.98222. Fletcher#222 · Thomas Fletcher · aggregate -0.9939. Mingo#39 · Jonathan Mingo · aggregate -1.07193. Brown#193 · Deonte Brown · aggregate -1.17

Incremental contribution by season

-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+32021 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.152021 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.682021 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.052021 · Keith Taylor · incremental -0.172021 · Jaycee Horn · incremental -0.192021 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.252021 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.412021 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.772021 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.812021 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -1.072021 · Deonte Brown · incremental -1.772022 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.242022 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.382022 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.502022 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.592022 · Brady Christensen · incremental +1.412022 · Jaycee Horn · incremental -0.062022 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.112022 · Keith Taylor · incremental -0.162022 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.242022 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.422022 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.512022 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.562022 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.572022 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.672022 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.812022 · Matt Corral · incremental -1.112022 · Brandon Smith · incremental -1.412023 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.022023 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.252023 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.262023 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.352023 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.472023 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +1.022023 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.102023 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.192023 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.212023 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232023 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.242023 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.252023 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.312023 · Jammie Robinson · incremental -0.392023 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.452023 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.552023 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.792023 · Brady Christensen · incremental -1.122023 · Jonathan Mingo · incremental -1.672024 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.142024 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.202024 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.202024 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.422024 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.822024 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +1.102024 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.102024 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.112024 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.182024 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.222024 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.222024 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.222024 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232024 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.232024 · Jammie Robinson · incremental -0.252024 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.322024 · Brandon Smith · incremental -0.392024 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.462024 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.472024 · Jonathan Mingo · incremental -0.592025 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.062025 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.332025 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.402025 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.642025 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.782025 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.112025 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.182025 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.202025 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232025 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.232025 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.252025 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.302025 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.312025 · Brandon Smith · incremental -0.392025 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.502025 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.512025 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.66Brown -1.8Ekwonu -0.6Ekwonu -0.1Mingo -1.7Ekwonu -0.1Ekwonu -0.1202111 players202217 players202319 players202420 players202517 players
Above expectationBelow expectationIkem EkwonuGM total -7.1Ikem Ekwonu by season -0.9

How much retained production did Ikem Ekwonu return vs. his slot?

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

-1.5-1-0.50+0.5+1Model value above slot9. SmithTyron Smith · model value +1.24. JohnsonLane Johnson · model value +0.86. StanleyRonnie Stanley · model value +0.411. LewanTaylor Lewan · model value +0.16. MatthewsJake Matthews · model value +0.11. FisherEric Fisher · model value -0.15. ScherffBrandon Scherff · model value -0.111. DavisAnthony Davis · model value -0.211. FlukerD.J. Fluker · model value -0.44. WilliamsTrent Williams · model value -0.58. ConklinJack Conklin · model value -0.54. ThomasAndrew Thomas · model value -0.610. Jr.Jedrick Wills Jr. · model value -0.64. KalilMatt Kalil · model value -0.69. McGlincheyMike McGlinchey · model value -0.76. OkungRussell Okung · model value -0.76. EkwonuIkem Ekwonu · model value -0.8-0.82. JoeckelLuke Joeckel · model value -0.99. FlowersEreck Flowers · model value -111. BectonMekhi Becton · model value -1.42. RobinsonGreg Robinson · model value -1.5
Ikem EkwonuSlot-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.

'22'24'2501632486401Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (4 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2022CAR17171,0831.476.5
2023CAR17171,2011.665.0
2024CAR15159631.177.3
2025CAR15159961.177.0

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