Excellent+1.12 contribution5th of 36 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
William Gholston was Mark Dominik's 5th-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 +1.12. 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
186
on drafting team
Games started
91
on drafting team
Snap-z
5.8
12 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
49
modeled; full weighted AV 39
AV / 1k snaps
7.4
6,603 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.0
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. William Gholston totals +1.12. 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 expectationWilliam GholstonGM total -4.6William Gholston by season +3.6
How much retained production did William Gholston 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 William Gholston 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.
William GholstonSlot-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.
Games started (cumulative)Pro BowlsAP1 All-ProAP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (12 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2013
TB
12
4
336
-0.4
2
6.0
2014
TB
15
7
644
0.6
4
6.2
2015
TB
16
13
753
1.0
5
6.6
2016
TB
14
12
656
0.8
7
10.7
2017
TB
14
7
522
0.4
4
7.7
2018
TB
16
3
490
0.3
2
4.1
2019
TB
16
5
667
0.9
4
6.0
2020
TB
16
13
726
1.2
7
9.6
2021
TB
17
5
585
0.8
5
8.5
2022
TB
17
6
598
0.8
5
8.4
2023
TB
16
0
319
-0.3
2
6.3
2024
TB
17
0
307
-0.2
2
6.5
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.
