Norman Hand · Good GM

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Full-career context

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

Games played115

Games started87

Weighted career AV36

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1995 · Round 5 · #158

MIA draft credit

GM Don Shula

Team games9

Team starts0

On-team AV1

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-2.01 contribution100th of 110 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Norman Hand became a 10-season, 115-game NFL player after going #158. The retained-value model still ranks him 100th of 110 for Don Shula because MIA only got 9 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.01. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Don Shula'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

on drafting team · 115 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 87 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 36

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

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Don Shula's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Don Shula pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Norman Hand totals -2.01. 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 expectationNorman HandGM total +0.8Norman Hand by season -3.1

How much retained production did Norman Hand return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Norman Hand since 2010 (9 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.

Norman HandSlot-similar peers (9)

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
1995	—	0	0	—	—	0	—
1996	MIA	9	0	—	—	1	—
1997	LAC	15	1	—	—	2	—
1998	LAC	16	16	—	—	9	—
1999	LAC	14	14	—	—	7	—
2000	NO	15	15	—	—	6	—
2001	NO	13	13	—	—	4	—
2002	NO	16	13	—	—	6	—
2003	SEA	6	4	—	—	2	—
2004	NYG	11	11	—	—	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.