A.J. Klein · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

These totals follow A.J. Klein across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.

Games played146

Games started82

Weighted career AV37

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons11

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2013 · Round 5 · #148

CAR draft credit

GM Dave Gettleman

Team games60

Team starts23

On-team AV13

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-1.59 contribution50th of 53 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

A.J. Klein became a 11-season, 146-game NFL player after going #148. The retained-value model still ranks him 50th of 53 for Dave Gettleman because CAR only got 60 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.59. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Dave Gettleman'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 · 146 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 82 full-career

Snap-z

0.7

4 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 37

AV / 1k snaps

6.1

2,122 snaps in rate base

AV-rate z

+0.0

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

all on drafting team

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Dave Gettleman's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Dave Gettleman pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. A.J. Klein totals -1.59. 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 expectationA.J. KleinGM total -18.8A.J. Klein by season -3.7

How much retained production did A.J. Klein return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: LBs drafted within ±5 picks of A.J. Klein since 2010 (16 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.

A.J. KleinSlot-similar peers (16)

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 (11 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
2013	CAR	16	13	389	-0.3	2	5.1
2014	CAR	14	13	551	0.3	4	7.3
2015	CAR	15	15	601	0.4	4	6.7
2016	CAR	15	14	581	0.4	3	5.2
2017	NO	12	10	727	0.9	5	6.9
2018	NO	16	15	841	1.1	7	8.3
2019	NO	15	13	836	1.1	7	8.4
2020	BUF	16	13	800	1.2	6	7.5
2021	BUF	15	8	438	0.1	4	9.1
2022	BAL, BUF, CHI	10	4	204	-3.3	2	9.8
2023	BUF	2	1	19	-1.3	0	0.0

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.