Good+0.36 contribution11th of 36 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
A Good pick
Mason Foster was Mark Dominik's 11th-best of 36 picks across his career.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.36. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mark Dominik'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
57
on drafting team · 107 full-career
Games started
54
on drafting team · 92 full-career
Snap-z
1.3
2 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
24
modeled; full weighted AV 40
AV / 1k snaps
7.8
1,410 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.3
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 Mark Dominik's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Mark Dominik pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Mason Foster totals +0.36. 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 expectationMason FosterGM total -4.6Mason Foster by season +0.9
How much retained production did Mason Foster return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: LBs drafted within ±5 picks of Mason Foster since 2010 (12 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.
Mason FosterSlot-similar peers (12)
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 BowlsAP1 All-ProAP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (8 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2011
TB
16
15
—
—
5
—
2012
TB
16
16
—
—
8
—
2013
TB
15
13
843
1.0
7
8.3
2014
TB
10
8
567
0.3
4
7.1
2015
WAS
13
12
420
-0.2
3
7.1
2016
WAS
16
15
944
1.5
7
7.4
2017
WAS
5
4
326
-0.3
3
9.2
2018
WAS
16
16
1,050
1.8
9
8.6
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.
