Baker Mayfield · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played123

Games started120

Weighted career AV80

Pro Bowls2

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons8

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2018 · Round 1 · #1

CLE draft credit

GM John Dorsey

Team games60

Team starts59

On-team AV45

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-1.28 contribution47th of 54 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Baker Mayfield became a 8-season, 123-game NFL player after going #1. The retained-value model still ranks him 47th of 54 for John Dorsey because CLE only got 60 of those games.

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 John Dorsey'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

on drafting team · 123 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 120 full-career

Snap-z

5.0

4 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 80

AV / 1k snaps

11.6

3,863 snaps in rate base

AV-rate z

+0.0

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

2 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move John Dorsey's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Dorsey pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Baker Mayfield 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 expectationBaker MayfieldGM total +23.4Baker Mayfield by season -2.7

How much retained production did Baker Mayfield 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 Baker Mayfield since 2010 (26 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.

Baker MayfieldSlot-similar peers (26)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 (8 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
2018	CLE	14	14	906	1.1	10	11.0
2019	CLE	16	16	1,034	1.3	11	10.6
2020	CLE	16	16	1,046	1.5	14	13.4
2021	CLE	14	14	877	1.0	10	11.4
2022	CAR, LAR	12	12	649	-0.5	6	9.2
2023	TB	17	17	1,100	1.7	13	11.8
2024	TB	17	17	1,123	1.7	17	15.1
2025	TB	17	17	1,099	1.7	13	11.8

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.