Excellent+2.59 contribution2nd of 23 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Josh Jacobs was Mike Mayock's 2nd-best of 23 picks across his career.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +2.59. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Mayock'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
73
on drafting team · 105 full-career
Games started
72
on drafting team · 104 full-career
Snap-z
8.1
5 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
44
modeled; full weighted AV 57
AV / 1k snaps
14.1
3,126 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.4
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
2
3 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
1 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Mike Mayock's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Mayock pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Josh Jacobs totals +2.59. 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 expectationJosh JacobsGM total -4.5Josh Jacobs by season +5.8
How much retained production did Josh Jacobs return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: RBs drafted within ±5 picks of Josh Jacobs since 2010 (5 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.
Josh JacobsSlot-similar peers (5)
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 (7 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2019
LV
13
10
460
0.7
8
17.4
2020
LV
15
13
617
1.8
8
13.0
✓
2021
LV
15
13
628
1.7
7
11.1
2022
LV
17
17
821
2.5
15
18.3
✓
★
2023
LV
13
13
600
1.4
6
10.0
2024
GB
17
15
680
1.7
12
17.6
2025
GB
15
12
558
1.2
9
16.1
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.
