Jim Kleinsasser · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played181

Games started130

Weighted career AV14

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons13

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1999 · Round 2 · #44

MIN draft credit

GM Frank Gilliam

Team games181

Team starts130

On-team AV16

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Average-0.36 contribution45th of 66 picks for this GM

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

An Average pick

Jim Kleinsasser was Frank Gilliam's 45th-best of 66 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.36. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Frank Gilliam'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

181

on drafting team

Games started

130

on drafting team

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 14

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

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 Frank Gilliam's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Frank Gilliam pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Jim Kleinsasser totals -0.36. 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 expectationJim KleinsasserGM total -7.1Jim Kleinsasser by season +0.5

How much retained production did Jim Kleinsasser 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 Jim Kleinsasser since 2010 (13 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.

Jim KleinsasserSlot-similar peers (13)

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 (13 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1999	MIN	13	7	—	—	0	—
2000	MIN	14	8	—	—	2	—
2001	MIN	11	11	—	—	2	—
2002	MIN	14	12	—	—	4	—
2003	MIN	16	16	—	—	4	—
2004	MIN	1	1	—	—	0	—
2005	MIN	16	16	—	—	1	—
2006	MIN	16	12	—	—	0	—
2007	MIN	16	10	—	—	0	—
2008	MIN	16	11	—	—	1	—
2009	MIN	16	8	—	—	1	—
2010	MIN	16	7	—	—	1	—
2011	MIN	16	11	—	—	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.