Eli Manning · Good GM

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Full-career context

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

Games played236

Games started234

Weighted career AV121

Pro Bowls4

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons16

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2004 · Round 1 · #1

LAC draft credit

GM A.J. Smith

Team games0

Team starts0

On-team AV0

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-1.28 contribution69th of 74 picks for this GM

Games: complete career recorded elsewhere. Starts: zero starts from zero team games.

Departure: draft rights trade in 2004 to NYG. Source.

Trade-asset value is credited separately from the team games and starts shown above.

Traded asset

Eli Manning was A.J. Smith's 69th-best of 74 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.28. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from A.J. Smith's leaderboard composite θ.

Departure context: LAC traded him to NYG in 2004; the data pipeline now treats confirmed trade departures as asset value rather than cut/release value.

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 · 236 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 234 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 121

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

4 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move A.J. Smith's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every A.J. Smith pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Eli Manning totals -1.28. 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 expectationEli ManningGM total +17.7Eli Manning by season -5.9

How much retained production did Eli Manning return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: QBs drafted within ±5 picks of Eli Manning since 2010 (27 players). Dark marks are GOAT-tier benchmarks (Brady, Manning, Mahomes) for orientation.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.

Eli ManningSlot-similar peers (27)GOAT QBs (Brady, Manning, Mahomes)

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 (16 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
2004	NYG	9	7	—	—	0	—
2005	NYG	16	16	—	—	15	—
2006	NYG	16	16	—	—	12	—
2007	NYG	16	16	—	—	10	—
2008	NYG	16	16	—	—	12	—
2009	NYG	16	16	—	—	13	—
2010	NYG	16	16	—	—	12	—
2011	NYG	16	16	—	—	15	—
2012	NYG	16	16	—	—	16	—
2013	NYG	16	16	987	1.2	7	7.1
2014	NYG	16	16	1,109	1.5	13	11.7
2015	NYG	16	16	1,107	1.6	14	12.6
2016	NYG	16	16	1,063	1.3	9	8.5
2017	NYG	15	15	1,017	1.4	7	6.9
2018	NYG	16	16	1,009	1.3	12	11.9
2019	NYG	4	4	248	-0.5	3	12.1

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.