Dashon Goldson · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played127

Games started106

Weighted career AV41

Pro Bowls2

AP1 All-Pro1

Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2007 · Round 4 · #126

SF draft credit

GM Scot McCloughan

Team games81

Team starts64

On-team AV33

On-team PB / AP12 / 1

Excellent+2.97 contribution2nd of 42 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Dashon Goldson was Scot McCloughan's 2nd-best of 42 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +2.97. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Scot McCloughan'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

on drafting team · 127 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 106 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 41

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

all on drafting team

AP1 All-Pro

1 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Scot McCloughan's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Scot McCloughan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Dashon Goldson totals +2.97. 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 expectationDashon GoldsonGM total -3.4Dashon Goldson by season +5.5

How much retained production did Dashon Goldson return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DBs drafted within ±5 picks of Dashon Goldson since 2010 (19 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.

Dashon GoldsonSlot-similar peers (19)

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 Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP1
2007	SF	10	0	—	—	1	—
2008	SF	9	2	—	—	1	—
2009	SF	16	16	—	—	8	—
2010	SF	16	16	—	—	6	—
2011	SF	14	14	—	—	8	—	✓
2012	SF	16	16	—	—	9	—	✓	★
2013	TB	13	12	945	0.9	3	3.2
2014	TB	14	13	837	0.5	5	6.0
2015	WAS	15	15	1,095	1.1	6	5.5
2016	ATL	4	2	57	-1.4	0	0.0

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.