Ken Irvin · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played147

Games started72

Weighted career AV31

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons11

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1995 · Round 4 · #109

BUF draft credit

GM John Butler

Team games108

Team starts54

On-team AV28

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Good+0.31 contribution23rd of 68 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Ken Irvin was John Butler's 23rd-best of 68 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.31. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Butler'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

108

on drafting team · 147 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 72 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 31

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 John Butler's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Butler pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Ken Irvin totals +0.31. 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 expectationKen IrvinGM total -10.3Ken Irvin by season +0.6

How much retained production did Ken Irvin 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 Ken Irvin since 2010 (18 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.

Ken IrvinSlot-similar peers (18)

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 (11 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1995	BUF	16	3	—	—	2	—
1996	BUF	16	1	—	—	2	—
1997	BUF	16	0	—	—	1	—
1998	BUF	16	16	—	—	6	—
1999	BUF	14	14	—	—	8	—
2000	BUF	16	16	—	—	7	—
2001	BUF	14	4	—	—	2	—
2002	NO	16	9	—	—	4	—
2003	MIN	16	8	—	—	3	—
2004	—	0	0	—	—	0	—
2005	MIN	7	1	—	—	1	—

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.