Brent Jones · Good GM

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Full-career context

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

Games played143

Games started125

Weighted career AV50

Pro Bowls4

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons12

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1986 · Round 5 · #135

PIT draft credit

GM Dick Haley

Team games0

Team starts0

On-team AV0

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-3.42 contribution83rd of 85 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Brent Jones became a 12-season, 143-game NFL player after going #135. The retained-value model still ranks him 83rd of 85 for Dick Haley because PIT only got 0 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -3.42. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Dick Haley'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 · 143 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 125 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 50

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

4 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Dick Haley's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Dick Haley pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Brent Jones totals -3.42. 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 expectationBrent JonesGM total +3.0Brent Jones by season -5.5

How much retained production did Brent Jones return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: TEs drafted within ±5 picks of Brent Jones 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.

Brent JonesSlot-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 (12 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1986	—	0	0	—	—	0	—
1987	SF	4	0	—	—	0	—
1988	SF	11	0	—	—	1	—
1989	SF	16	16	—	—	6	—
1990	SF	16	16	—	—	7	—
1991	SF	10	9	—	—	5	—
1992	SF	15	15	—	—	8	—
1993	SF	16	16	—	—	9	—
1994	SF	15	15	—	—	9	—
1995	SF	16	16	—	—	6	—
1996	SF	11	10	—	—	5	—
1997	SF	13	12	—	—	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.