← 1981 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R7 · #170 OVERALL · WR

Ron Johnson

Drafted by SEA · GM John Thompson · Long Beach St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played47
Games started13
Weighted career AV10
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons9

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1981 · Round 7 · #170

SEA draft credit

GM John Thompson

Team games0
Team starts0
On-team AV0
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-2.08 contribution14th of 14 picks for this GM

Games: complete career recorded elsewhere. Starts: zero starts from zero team games.

A Terrible pick

Ron Johnson was John Thompson's 14th-best of 14 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.08. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Thompson'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
0
on drafting team · 47 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team · 13 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
0
modeled; full weighted AV 10
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only

Did this pick move John Thompson's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Thompson pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Ron Johnson totals -2.08. 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

-2-10+1+2+3+4+5+6+74. Easley#4 · Kenny Easley · aggregate +7.77Easley +7.810. Green#10 · Jacob Green · aggregate +2.76Green +2.8114. Bailey#114 · Edwin Bailey · aggregate +2.41Bailey +2.431. Hughes#31 · David Hughes · aggregate -0.10186. Scovill#186 · Brad Scovill · aggregate -0.27153. McNeal#153 · Mark McNeal · aggregate -0.53140. Durham#140 · Steve Durham · aggregate -0.54132. Jacobs#132 · Daniel Jacobs · aggregate -0.6297. Dion#97 · Terry Dion · aggregate -0.63127. Steele#127 · Joe Steele · aggregate -0.7287. Phillips#87 · Scott Phillips · aggregate -0.9158. Dugan#58 · Bill Dugan · aggregate -1.3544. Hines#44 · Andre Hines · aggregate -1.44170. Johnson#170 · Ron Johnson · aggregate -2.08Johnson -2.1

Incremental contribution by season

-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+3+41980 · Mark McNeal · incremental -0.931980 · Terry Dion · incremental -1.031980 · Daniel Jacobs · incremental -1.061980 · Joe Steele · incremental -1.181980 · Jacob Green · incremental -1.251980 · Andre Hines · incremental -2.271981 · Kenny Easley · incremental +0.341981 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.441981 · Edwin Bailey · incremental -0.191981 · David Hughes · incremental -0.221981 · Brad Scovill · incremental -0.641981 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.921981 · Steve Durham · incremental -0.941981 · Scott Phillips · incremental -1.471981 · Ron Johnson · incremental -3.291982 · David Hughes · incremental +0.031982 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.341982 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.341982 · Kenny Easley · incremental +1.411982 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.641983 · David Hughes · incremental +0.051983 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.231983 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.461983 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.551983 · Bill Dugan · incremental -0.501984 · David Hughes · incremental +0.051984 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.321984 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.511984 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.631985 · David Hughes · incremental +0.031985 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.511985 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.531985 · Kenny Easley · incremental +3.521986 · Kenny Easley · incremental +0.241986 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.411986 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.491987 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.341987 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.451987 · Kenny Easley · incremental +1.321988 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.441988 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.571989 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.421989 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.511990 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.371990 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.531991 · Edwin Bailey · incremental +0.091991 · Jacob Green · incremental +0.51Hines -2.3Johnson -3.3Easley +3.6Easley +3.6Easley +3.519806 players19819 players19825 players19835 players19844 players19854 players19863 players19873 players19882 players19892 players19902 players19912 players
Above expectationBelow expectationRon JohnsonGM total +3.7Ron Johnson by season -3.3

How much retained production did Ron Johnson 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 Ron Johnson since 2010 (24 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.

-0.50+0.5+1+1.5+2+2.5Model value above slot165. HillTyreek Hill · model value +2.8+2.8173. MooneyDarnell Mooney · model value +0.6171. SlaytonDarius Slayton · model value +0.4174. Valdes-ScantlingMarquez Valdes-Scantling · model value +0.3166. JonesMarvin Jones · model value +0.2166. HortonTory Horton · model value +0.2170. MeansBub Means · model value +0.1174. JohnsonKeeSean Johnson · model value +0.1166. CephusQuintez Cephus · model value +0.1175. RatleyDamion Ratley · model value -0.1172. HigginsRashard Higgins · model value -0.1168. CrinerJuron Criner · model value -0.1165. MeierKerry Meier · model value -0.1167. WhalenRyan Whalen · model value -0.1174. SwopeRyan Swope · model value -0.1165. JohnsonCollin Johnson · model value -0.2175. YanceyDeAngelo Yancey · model value -0.2166. GibsonShelton Gibson · model value -0.2170. AdamsRodney Adams · model value -0.2171. FullerCorey Fuller · model value -0.2168. HightowerJohn Hightower · model value -0.3171. CoulterIsaiah Coulter · model value -0.3175. MumpheryKeith Mumphery · model value -0.5172. McKenzieIsaiah McKenzie · model value -0.6170. JohnsonRon Johnson · model value -0.9-0.9
Ron JohnsonSlot-similar peers (24)

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.

'82'84'86'88'89037101301Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (9 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1981000
1982000
1983000
1984000
1985PHI801
1986PHI1202
1987PHI300
1988PHI1044
1989PHI1493

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