← 1980 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R6 · #144 OVERALL · C

Chris Foote

Drafted by IND · GM Dick Szymanski · USC

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played104
Games started8
Weighted career AV10
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons11

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1980 · Round 6 · #144

IND draft credit

GM Dick Szymanski

Team games32
Team starts0
On-team AV2
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-3.03 contribution13th of 13 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Chris Foote became a 11-season, 104-game NFL player after going #144. The retained-value model still ranks him 13th of 13 for Dick Szymanski because IND only got 32 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -3.03. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Dick Szymanski'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
32
on drafting team · 104 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team · 8 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
2
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 Dick Szymanski's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Dick Szymanski pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Chris Foote totals -3.03. 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

-3-2-10+118. Thompson#18 · Donnell Thompson · aggregate +1.4112. McMillan#12 · Randy McMillan · aggregate +1.1988. Butler#88 · Ray Butler · aggregate +0.4524. Hatchett#24 · Derrick Hatchett · aggregate +0.1994. Sherwin#94 · Tim Sherwin · aggregate -0.00149. Green#149 · Bubba Green · aggregate -0.10170. Roberts#170 · Wes Roberts · aggregate -0.475. Dickey#5 · Curtis Dickey · aggregate -0.65178. Ariri#178 · Obed Ariri · aggregate -0.7368. Divier#68 · Randy Van Divier · aggregate -0.9751. Foley#51 · Tim Foley · aggregate -1.4332. Donaldson#32 · Ray Donaldson · aggregate -2.20Donaldson -2.2144. Foote#144 · Chris Foote · aggregate -3.03Foote -3.0

Incremental contribution by season

-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+11980 · Derrick Hatchett · incremental +0.051980 · Ray Butler · incremental -0.181980 · Wes Roberts · incremental -0.811980 · Curtis Dickey · incremental -1.121980 · Tim Foley · incremental -1.481980 · Chris Foote · incremental -3.401980 · Ray Donaldson · incremental -4.191981 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.021981 · Derrick Hatchett · incremental +0.161981 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.181981 · Ray Butler · incremental +0.281981 · Curtis Dickey · incremental -0.041981 · Tim Sherwin · incremental -0.121981 · Bubba Green · incremental -0.161981 · Tim Foley · incremental -0.761981 · Chris Foote · incremental -1.251981 · Obed Ariri · incremental -1.301981 · Randy Van Divier · incremental -1.521981 · Donnell Thompson · incremental -1.591982 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.021982 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.101982 · Derrick Hatchett · incremental +0.111982 · Ray Butler · incremental +0.161982 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.261982 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.261982 · Curtis Dickey · incremental -0.021983 · Derrick Hatchett · incremental +0.071983 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.091983 · Ray Butler · incremental +0.141983 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.181983 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.371983 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.441983 · Curtis Dickey · incremental -0.041984 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.121984 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.181984 · Ray Butler · incremental +0.271984 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.271984 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.441984 · Curtis Dickey · incremental -0.021985 · Curtis Dickey · incremental +0.001985 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.031985 · Ray Butler · incremental +0.171985 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.181985 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.361985 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.421986 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.061986 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.421986 · Randy McMillan · incremental +0.431986 · Ray Donaldson · incremental -0.321987 · Tim Sherwin · incremental +0.051987 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.361987 · Ray Donaldson · incremental -0.371988 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.451988 · Ray Donaldson · incremental -0.321989 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.461989 · Ray Donaldson · incremental -0.321990 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.181990 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.321991 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.031991 · Donnell Thompson · incremental +0.371992 · Ray Donaldson · incremental +0.18Foote -3.4Donaldson -4.2Foote -1.3Divier -1.5Thompson -1.619807 players198112 players19827 players19837 players19846 players19856 players19864 players19873 players19882 players19892 players19902 players19912 players19921 player
Above expectationBelow expectationChris FooteGM total -6.3Chris Foote by season -4.7

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

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: Cs drafted within ±5 picks of Chris Foote since 2010 (1 player).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.

-1-0.50+0.5Model value above slot146. BiadaszTyler Biadasz · model value +0.5144. FooteChris Foote · model value -1.4-1.4
Chris FooteSlot-similar peers (1)

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.

'80'82'84'86'88'900246801Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (11 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1980IND1601
1981IND1601
1982NYG701
1983NYG1101
1984000
1985000
1986000
1987MIN601
1988MIN1653
1989MIN1601
1990MIN1632

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