Mike Merriweather

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played149

Games started139

Weighted career AV73

Pro Bowls3

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons12

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1982 · Round 3 · #70

PIT draft credit

GM Dick Haley

Team games85

Team starts76

On-team AV56

On-team PB / AP13 / 0

Excellent+1.39 contribution14th of 85 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Mike Merriweather was Dick Haley's 14th-best of 85 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +1.39. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Dick Haley'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

on drafting team · 149 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 139 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 73

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

all on drafting team

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Dick Haley's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Dick Haley pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Mike Merriweather totals +1.39. 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 expectationMike MerriweatherGM total +3.0Mike Merriweather by season +2.2

How much retained production did Mike Merriweather 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 Mike Merriweather 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.

Mike MerriweatherSlot-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 Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (12 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB
1982	PIT	9	0	—	—	1	—
1983	PIT	16	16	—	—	10	—
1984	PIT	16	16	—	—	13	—	✓
1985	PIT	16	16	—	—	11	—	✓
1986	PIT	16	16	—	—	12	—	✓
1987	PIT	12	12	—	—	9	—
1988	—	0	0	—	—	0	—
1989	MIN	15	15	—	—	8	—
1990	MIN	16	16	—	—	9	—
1991	MIN	16	16	—	—	8	—
1992	MIN	16	16	—	—	8	—
1993	GB, NYJ	1	0	—	—	0	—

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.