Excellent+4.17 contribution1st of 42 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Everson Griffen was Rick Spielman's 1st-best of 42 picks across his career, the best pick of the entire tenure.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +4.17. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Rick Spielman'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
156
on drafting team · 170 full-career
Games started
94
on drafting team · 96 full-career
Snap-z
10.5
8 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
77
modeled; full weighted AV 67
AV / 1k snaps
10.7
6,513 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.5
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
3
4 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 1
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Rick Spielman's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Rick Spielman pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Everson Griffen totals +4.17. 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 expectationEverson GriffenGM total +14.0Everson Griffen by season +9.9
How much retained production did Everson Griffen 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 Everson Griffen since 2010 (13 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.
Everson GriffenSlot-similar peers (13)
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
2010
MIN
11
0
—
—
1
—
2011
MIN
16
0
—
—
2
—
2012
MIN
16
1
—
—
4
—
2013
MIN
16
14
752
0.8
2
2.7
2014
MIN
16
16
1,047
1.9
9
8.6
2015
MIN
15
14
919
1.5
11
12.0
2016
MIN
16
16
953
1.8
13
13.6
✓
2017
MIN
15
15
836
1.5
16
19.1
✓
·
2018
MIN
11
11
635
0.8
6
9.4
2019
MIN
15
15
901
1.8
10
11.1
✓
2020
DAL, DET
14
8
577
-0.6
2
3.5
2021
MIN
9
8
470
0.4
3
6.4
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.
