← 1995 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R6 · #178 OVERALL · LB

Eddie Mason

Drafted by NYJ · GM Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan · North Carolina

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played80
Games started3
Weighted career AV7
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons8

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1995 · Round 6 · #178

NYJ draft credit

GM Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan

Team games15
Team starts0
On-team AV1
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-1.23 contribution10th of 14 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Eddie Mason became a 8-season, 80-game NFL player after going #178. The retained-value model still ranks him 10th of 14 for Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan because NYJ only got 15 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.23. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan'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
15
on drafting team · 80 full-career
Games started
0
on drafting team · 3 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
1
modeled; full weighted AV 7
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
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 Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Eddie Mason totals -1.23. 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

-5-4-3-2-10210. Hayes#210 · Chris Hayes · aggregate +0.72142. Greenwood#142 · Carl Greenwood · aggregate +0.15133. Coleman#133 · Marcus Coleman · aggregate +0.07217. Ceaser#217 · Curtis Ceaser · aggregate +0.00168. Hunter#168 · Hugh Hunter · aggregate -0.1262. Mickens#62 · Ray Mickens · aggregate -0.39106. Hayes#106 · Melvin Hayes · aggregate -0.6331. Dyke#31 · Alex Van Dyke · aggregate -0.7133. O'Dwyer#33 · Matt O'Dwyer · aggregate -1.19178. Mason#178 · Eddie Mason · aggregate -1.23Mason -1.2107. Davis#107 · Tyrone Davis · aggregate -1.3716. Douglas#16 · Hugh Douglas · aggregate -2.29Douglas -2.31. Johnson#1 · Keyshawn Johnson · aggregate -3.17Johnson -3.29. Brady#9 · Kyle Brady · aggregate -5.16Brady -5.2

Incremental contribution by season

-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-101995 · Carl Greenwood · incremental +0.091995 · Curtis Ceaser · incremental -0.041995 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.871995 · Melvin Hayes · incremental -0.931995 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -1.451995 · Eddie Mason · incremental -1.901995 · Tyrone Davis · incremental -1.981995 · Kyle Brady · incremental -4.901996 · Carl Greenwood · incremental +0.121996 · Chris Hayes · incremental -0.031996 · Melvin Hayes · incremental -0.101996 · Marcus Coleman · incremental -0.251996 · Hugh Hunter · incremental -0.301996 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.331996 · Tyrone Davis · incremental -0.341996 · Ray Mickens · incremental -0.681996 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental -0.811996 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -0.821996 · Kyle Brady · incremental -0.861996 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -2.331997 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.081997 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.111997 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.271997 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental -0.211997 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.351997 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -0.611997 · Kyle Brady · incremental -1.091997 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -1.351998 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental +0.031998 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.041998 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.071998 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.251998 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.371998 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -0.721998 · Kyle Brady · incremental -1.371999 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.021999 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.091999 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.251999 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -1.632000 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.092000 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.122000 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.292001 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.042001 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.102001 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.262002 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.092003 · Ray Mickens · incremental -0.13Mason -1.9Davis -2.0Brady -4.9Johnson -2.3Johnson -1.619958 players199612 players19978 players19987 players19994 players20003 players20013 players20021 player20031 player
Above expectationBelow expectationEddie MasonGM total -15.3Eddie Mason by season -1.9

How much retained production did Eddie Mason 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 Eddie Mason since 2010 (14 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 slot183. MuasauDarius Muasau · model value +0.4176. ClarkDamone Clark · model value +0.4173. HolcombCole Holcomb · model value +0.4176. BrittK.J. Britt · model value 0180. MoodyNick Moody · model value -0.1175. FordJaylan Ford · model value -0.1178. StrnadJustin Strnad · model value -0.2178. MoatsArthur Moats · model value -0.2175. MartinKamal Martin · model value -0.2183. EligweUkeme Eligwe · model value -0.2178. WellsMatthew Wells · model value -0.2182. BeaversDarrian Beavers · model value -0.3177. McGroneCameron McGrone · model value -0.4183. BrownCam Brown · model value -0.5178. MasonEddie Mason · model value -0.6-0.6
Eddie MasonSlot-similar peers (14)

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.

'96'98'00'020122301Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (8 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1995NYJ1501
1996000
1997000
1998JAX400
1999WAS1401
2000WAS1623
2001WAS1512
2002WAS1601

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