← 1982 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R3 · #56 OVERALL · WR

Cedric Jones

Drafted by NE · GM Bucko Kilroy · Duke

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played120
Games started38
Weighted career AV20
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons9

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1982 · Round 3 · #56

NE draft credit

GM Bucko Kilroy

Team games120
Team starts38
On-team AV23
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.07 contribution9th of 25 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Cedric Jones was Bucko Kilroy's 9th-best of 25 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.07. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bucko Kilroy'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
120
on drafting team
Games started
38
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
23
modeled; full weighted AV 20
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 Bucko Kilroy's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Bucko Kilroy pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Cedric Jones totals +0.07. 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

-6-4-20+2+4+641. Tippett#41 · Andre Tippett · aggregate +7.88Tippett +7.9112. Marion#112 · Fred Marion · aggregate +3.65Marion +3.6157. Wooten#157 · Ron Wooten · aggregate +2.51Wooten +2.519. Holloway#19 · Brian Holloway · aggregate +2.28Holloway +2.3102. Blackmon#102 · Don Blackmon · aggregate +2.23Blackmon +2.247. Collins#47 · Tony Collins · aggregate +1.4045. McGrew#45 · Larry McGrew · aggregate +0.3014. James#14 · Roland James · aggregate +0.2156. Jones#56 · Cedric Jones · aggregate +0.07Jones +0.1185. Toler#185 · Ken Toler · aggregate -0.0560. Weishuhn#60 · Clayton Weishuhn · aggregate -0.19160. Brown#160 · Preston Brown · aggregate -0.25141. Smith#141 · Ricky Smith · aggregate -0.3055. Haley#55 · Darryl Haley · aggregate -0.4740. Weathers#40 · Robert Weathers · aggregate -0.47130. Clark#130 · Steve Clark · aggregate -0.50124. McDougald#124 · Doug McDougald · aggregate -0.51168. Roberts#168 · Jeff Roberts · aggregate -0.62111. Ingram#111 · Brian Ingram · aggregate -0.6425. Ferguson#25 · Vagas Ferguson · aggregate -0.6585. Crump#85 · George Crump · aggregate -0.66180. Kearns#180 · Tom Kearns · aggregate -0.6927. Williams#27 · Lester Williams · aggregate -0.691. Sims#1 · Kenneth Sims · aggregate -1.2973. McMichael#73 · Steve McMichael · aggregate -6.55McMichael -6.5

Incremental contribution by season

-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-20+2+4+6+81980 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.101980 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.741980 · Doug McDougald · incremental -0.881980 · Tom Kearns · incremental -1.141980 · Larry McGrew · incremental -1.811980 · Roland James · incremental -2.871980 · Steve McMichael · incremental -10.491981 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.061981 · Roland James · incremental +0.221981 · Ken Toler · incremental -0.071981 · Brian Holloway · incremental -0.101981 · Tony Collins · incremental -0.131981 · Ron Wooten · incremental -0.141981 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.231981 · Steve Clark · incremental -0.841982 · Ken Toler · incremental +0.021982 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.131982 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171982 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.181982 · Roland James · incremental +0.181982 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.301982 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.371982 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.531982 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.021982 · Fred Marion · incremental -0.031982 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.221982 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.221982 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.281982 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.301982 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.481982 · Cedric Jones · incremental -0.561982 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.711982 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.721982 · Jeff Roberts · incremental -1.041982 · George Crump · incremental -1.101982 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -1.331983 · Brian Ingram · incremental +0.001983 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081983 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171983 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.251983 · Roland James · incremental +0.371983 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.461983 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.521983 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.601983 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.641983 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.201983 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.011983 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.021983 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.101983 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.161983 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.161983 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.371984 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011984 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121984 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.201984 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.281984 · Roland James · incremental +0.331984 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.491984 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651984 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701984 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.231984 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.401984 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.011984 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.011984 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.051984 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111984 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141984 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.341985 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011985 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141985 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.251985 · Roland James · incremental +0.371985 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.371985 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561985 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.621985 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.221985 · Fred Marion · incremental +1.631985 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.251985 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111985 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141985 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.211986 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.151986 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.271986 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.271986 · Roland James · incremental +0.341986 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.401986 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651986 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671986 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701986 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.301986 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021986 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.021986 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.051986 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.121987 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081987 · Roland James · incremental +0.131987 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.171987 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.231987 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.291987 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.531987 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.551987 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.191987 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.091988 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141988 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301988 · Roland James · incremental +0.341988 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561988 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671988 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.331988 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021989 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.071989 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301989 · Roland James · incremental +0.301989 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.601989 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.121990 · Roland James · incremental +0.101990 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121990 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.401990 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.621991 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.421991 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.561992 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.431993 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.58McGrew -1.8James -2.9McMichael -10.5Jones -0.6Jones +0.1Jones +0.1Jones +0.1Marion +1.6Tippett +3.3Jones +0.2Jones +0.1Tippett +3.2Jones +0.1Jones +0.1Jones +0.119807 players19818 players198221 players198316 players198416 players198513 players198613 players19879 players19887 players19895 players19904 players19912 players19921 player19931 player
Above expectationBelow expectationCedric JonesGM total +6.0Cedric Jones by season +0.3

How much retained production did Cedric Jones 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 Cedric Jones since 2010 (28 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+1.5Model value above slot51. BrownA.J. Brown · model value +1.553. AdamsDavante Adams · model value +1.355. RiceRashee Rice · model value +1.252. PickensGeorge Pickens · model value +0.755. BoydTyler Boyd · model value +0.753. PierceAlec Pierce · model value +0.556. HardmanMecole Hardman · model value +0.352. MitchellAdonai Mitchell · model value +0.357. AtwellTutu Atwell · model value +0.258. SmithTorrey Smith · model value +0.160. TateGolden Tate · model value +0.159. DobsonAaron Dobson · model value +0.158. BechJack Bech · model value -0.160. WashingtonJames Washington · model value -0.256. JonesCedric Jones · model value -0.2-0.257. JeffersonVan Jefferson · model value -0.254. BroylesRyan Broyles · model value -0.361. CharkDJ Chark · model value -0.351. MillerAnthony Miller · model value -0.455. HarrisTre Harris · model value -0.459. MimsDenzel Mims · model value -0.561. RobinsonAllen Robinson · model value -0.559. Jr.Terrace Marshall Jr. · model value -0.556. EskridgeD'Wayne Eskridge · model value -0.554. MooreSkyy Moore · model value -0.559. CampbellParris Campbell · model value -0.659. LittleGreg Little · model value -0.756. LatimerCody Latimer · model value -0.957. Arcega-WhitesideJJ Arcega-Whiteside · model value -0.9
Cedric JonesSlot-similar peers (28)

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.

'82'84'86'88'9001019293801Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (9 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1982NE200
1983NE15123
1984NE1432
1985NE1632
1986NE1602
1987NE1244
1988NE1623
1989NE15125
1990NE1422

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