Excellent+1.11 contribution5th of 37 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Brandon Mebane was Tim Ruskell's 5th-best of 37 picks across his career.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +1.11. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Tim Ruskell'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
131
on drafting team · 182 full-career
Games started
125
on drafting team · 176 full-career
Snap-z
0.5
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
62
modeled; full weighted AV 63
AV / 1k snaps
14.5
1,377 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.7
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 Tim Ruskell's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Tim Ruskell pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Brandon Mebane totals +1.11. 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 expectationBrandon MebaneGM total +7.1Brandon Mebane by season +2.8
How much retained production did Brandon Mebane return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Brandon Mebane since 2010 (22 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.
Brandon MebaneSlot-similar peers (22)
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
2007
SEA
16
10
—
—
6
—
2008
SEA
16
16
—
—
7
—
2009
SEA
15
15
—
—
7
—
2010
SEA
12
12
—
—
5
—
2011
SEA
16
16
—
—
8
—
2012
SEA
16
16
—
—
9
—
2013
SEA
16
6
560
0.5
9
16.1
2014
SEA
9
3
282
-0.5
4
14.2
2015
SEA
15
8
535
0.5
7
13.1
2016
LAC
10
6
357
-0.3
4
11.2
2017
LAC
16
11
545
0.7
7
12.8
2018
LAC
12
6
408
-0.2
6
14.7
2019
LAC
13
11
410
-0.3
6
14.6
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.
