Michael Irvin · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played159

Games started147

Weighted career AV104

Pro Bowls5

AP1 All-Pro1

Career seasons12

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1988 · Round 1 · #11

DAL draft credit

GM Tex Schramm

Team games159

Team starts147

On-team AV126

On-team PB / AP14 / 1

Excellent+6.35 contribution1st of 71 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Michael Irvin was Tex Schramm's 1st-best of 71 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 +6.35. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Tex Schramm'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

159

on drafting team

Games started

147

on drafting team

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

126

modeled; full weighted AV 104

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

5 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

1 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 2

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Tex Schramm's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Tex Schramm pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Michael Irvin totals +6.35. 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 expectationMichael IrvinGM total -28.5Michael Irvin by season +9.6

How much retained production did Michael Irvin return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: WRs drafted within ±5 picks of Michael Irvin since 2010 (22 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.

Michael IrvinSlot-similar peers (22)

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 (12 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP1	AP2
1988	DAL	14	10	—	—	5	—
1989	DAL	6	6	—	—	2	—
1990	DAL	12	7	—	—	4	—
1991	DAL	16	16	—	—	18	—	✓	★
1992	DAL	16	14	—	—	18	—	✓		·
1993	DAL	16	16	—	—	17	—	✓		·
1994	DAL	16	16	—	—	15	—
1995	DAL	16	16	—	—	19	—	✓
1996	DAL	11	11	—	—	8	—
1997	DAL	16	16	—	—	8	—
1998	DAL	16	15	—	—	10	—
1999	DAL	4	4	—	—	2	—

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.