Terrible-2.78 contribution8th of 8 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Alex Mack became a 13-season, 196-game NFL player after going #21. The retained-value model still ranks him 8th of 8 for George Kokinis because CLE only got 101 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.78. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from George Kokinis'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
101
on drafting team · 196 full-career
Games started
101
on drafting team · 196 full-career
Snap-z
1.8
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
45
modeled; full weighted AV 86
AV / 1k snaps
7.3
2,591 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.2
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
1
7 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 1
All-Decade
1
context only
Did this pick move George Kokinis's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every George Kokinis pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Alex Mack totals -2.78. 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 expectationAlex MackGM total -6.3Alex Mack by season -5.9
How much retained production did Alex Mack return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: Cs drafted within ±5 picks of Alex Mack since 2010 (7 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.
Alex MackSlot-similar peers (7)
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 BowlsAP1 All-ProAP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (13 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2009
CLE
16
16
—
—
5
—
2010
CLE
16
16
—
—
8
—
✓
2011
CLE
16
16
—
—
6
—
2012
CLE
16
16
—
—
7
—
2013
CLE
16
16
1,168
1.2
9
7.7
·
2014
CLE
5
4
320
-0.7
2
6.3
2015
CLE
16
16
1,103
1.3
8
7.3
2016
ATL
16
16
1,029
1.1
17
16.5
2017
ATL
16
16
1,027
1.0
14
13.6
2018
ATL
16
16
1,067
1.1
12
11.2
2019
ATL
16
16
1,160
1.3
8
6.9
2020
ATL
14
14
973
1.1
6
6.2
2021
SF
17
17
1,085
1.2
9
8.3
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.