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R.J. Mickens

Drafted by LAC · GM Joe Hortiz · Clemson

All NFL teams

Full-career context

These totals follow R.J. Mickens across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.

Games played12
Games started6
Weighted career AV3
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons1

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2025 · Round 6 · #214

LAC draft credit

GM Joe Hortiz

Team games12
Team starts6
On-team AV3
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Excellent+0.72 contribution4th of 18 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

R.J. Mickens was Joe Hortiz's 4th-best of 18 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.72. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Joe Hortiz'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
12
on drafting team
Games started
6
on drafting team
Snap-z
-0.2
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
3
modeled; full weighted AV 3
AV / 1k snaps
7.3
411 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.4
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 Joe Hortiz's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Joe Hortiz pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. R.J. Mickens totals +0.72. 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

0+1165. II#165 · Oronde Gadsden II · aggregate +1.90137. Still#137 · Tarheeb Still · aggregate +1.2734. McConkey#34 · Ladd McConkey · aggregate +1.06214. Mickens#214 · R.J. Mickens · aggregate +0.72Mickens +0.7181. Vidal#181 · Kimani Vidal · aggregate +0.65140. Hart#140 · Cam Hart · aggregate +0.55225. Rice#225 · Brenden Rice · aggregate +0.49256. Bridges#256 · Trikweze Bridges · aggregate +0.38158. Lambert-Smith#158 · KeAndre Lambert-Smith · aggregate +0.22199. Taylor#199 · Branson Taylor · aggregate +0.15253. Johnson#253 · Cornelius Johnson · aggregate +0.14125. Kennard#125 · Kyle Kennard · aggregate +0.0586. Caldwell#86 · Jamaree Caldwell · aggregate +0.015. Alt#5 · Joe Alt · aggregate -0.2969. Colson#69 · Junior Colson · aggregate -0.35105. Eboigbe#105 · Justin Eboigbe · aggregate -0.3955. Harris#55 · Tre Harris · aggregate -0.3922. Hampton#22 · Omarion Hampton · aggregate -0.82

Incremental contribution by season

-20+2+4+6+8+10+122024 · Justin Eboigbe · incremental +0.092024 · Cornelius Johnson · incremental +0.202024 · Cam Hart · incremental +0.572024 · Ladd McConkey · incremental +1.082024 · Brenden Rice · incremental +1.152024 · Tarheeb Still · incremental +1.642024 · Kimani Vidal · incremental -0.102024 · Junior Colson · incremental -0.702024 · Joe Alt · incremental -1.872025 · Kyle Kennard · incremental +0.052025 · Cornelius Johnson · incremental +0.062025 · Jamaree Caldwell · incremental +0.182025 · Branson Taylor · incremental +0.392025 · Trikweze Bridges · incremental +0.532025 · KeAndre Lambert-Smith · incremental +0.572025 · Joe Alt · incremental +0.782025 · Cam Hart · incremental +0.942025 · Ladd McConkey · incremental +1.242025 · Tarheeb Still · incremental +1.512025 · R.J. Mickens · incremental +1.522025 · Kimani Vidal · incremental +1.762025 · Oronde Gadsden II · incremental +4.132025 · Tre Harris · incremental -0.772025 · Justin Eboigbe · incremental -0.852025 · Omarion Hampton · incremental -1.68Still +1.6Alt -1.9Still +1.5Mickens +1.5Vidal +1.8II +4.1Hampton -1.720249 players202516 players
Above expectationBelow expectationR.J. MickensGM total +5.4R.J. Mickens by season +1.5

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.

'250245701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (1 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2025LAC127411-0.237.3

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