← 2025 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R7 · #222 OVERALL · LB

Cody Lindenberg

Drafted by LV · GM John Spytek · Minnesota

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played17
Games started0
Weighted career AV1
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons1

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2025 · Round 7 · #222

LV draft credit

GM John Spytek

Team games17
Team starts0
On-team AV1
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.43 contribution4th of 11 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Cody Lindenberg was John Spytek's 4th-best of 11 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.43. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Spytek'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
17
on drafting team
Games started
0
on drafting team
Snap-z
-0.2
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
1
modeled; full weighted AV 1
AV / 1k snaps
2.8
362 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.5
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 Spytek's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Spytek pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Cody Lindenberg totals +0.43. 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

-10215. Miller#215 · Cam Miller · aggregate +0.77213. Mellott#213 · Tommy Mellott · aggregate +0.76180. Pegues#180 · JJ Pegues · aggregate +0.43222. Lindenberg#222 · Cody Lindenberg · aggregate +0.43Lindenberg +0.4135. Hemingway#135 · Tonka Hemingway · aggregate +0.2368. Porter#68 · Darien Porter · aggregate +0.16108. Thornton#108 · Dont'e Thornton · aggregate +0.1598. Rogers#98 · Caleb Rogers · aggregate -0.1658. Bech#58 · Jack Bech · aggregate -0.2499. Grant#99 · Charles Grant · aggregate -0.266. Jeanty#6 · Ashton Jeanty · aggregate -1.41

Incremental contribution by season

-4-3-2-10+1+2+3+4+5+62025 · Darien Porter · incremental +0.402025 · Tonka Hemingway · incremental +0.472025 · Dont'e Thornton · incremental +0.482025 · JJ Pegues · incremental +0.902025 · Cody Lindenberg · incremental +1.072025 · Tommy Mellott · incremental +1.712025 · Cam Miller · incremental +1.732025 · Caleb Rogers · incremental -0.322025 · Jack Bech · incremental -0.402025 · Charles Grant · incremental -0.542025 · Ashton Jeanty · incremental -3.17Lindenberg +1.1Mellott +1.7Miller +1.7Jeanty -3.2202511 players
Above expectationBelow expectationCody LindenbergGM total +0.9Cody Lindenberg by season +1.1

How much retained production did Cody Lindenberg 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 Cody Lindenberg 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.

-0.50Model value above slot220. McDuffieIsaiah McDuffie · model value +0.4220. ChaneyJamar Chaney · model value +0.4217. HoustonJames Houston · model value +0.2226. BruenerCarson Bruener · model value +0.1222. LindenbergCody Lindenberg · model value +0.1+0.1221. AdamsMatthew Adams · model value 0223. LewisTravis Lewis · model value 0221. JohnsonRandell Johnson · model value -0.1225. RobinsonMark Robinson · model value -0.1223. WattsBrandon Watts · model value -0.1222. McSurdyCaleb McSurdy · model value -0.1219. CampbellChance Campbell · model value -0.2225. DownsDevante Downs · model value -0.2227. PolingQuentin Poling · model value -0.2218. CoughlinCarter Coughlin · model value -0.3217. WatsonDekoda Watson · model value -0.6226. SummersTy Summers · model value -0.6
Cody LindenbergSlot-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.

'25049131701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (1 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2025LV1717362-0.212.8

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