← 2023 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R4 · #135 OVERALL · QB

Aidan O'Connell

Drafted by LV · GM Dave Ziegler · Purdue

All NFL teams

Full-career context

These totals follow Aidan O'Connell across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.

Games played21
Games started17
Weighted career AV10
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons3

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2023 · Round 4 · #135

LV draft credit

GM Dave Ziegler

Team games21
Team starts17
On-team AV10
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Excellent+0.95 contribution1st of 15 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Aidan O'Connell was Dave Ziegler's 1st-best of 15 picks across his career, the best pick of the entire tenure.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.95. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Dave Ziegler'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
21
on drafting team
Games started
17
on drafting team
Snap-z
-0.4
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
10
modeled; full weighted AV 10
AV / 1k snaps
8.9
1,119 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.2
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 Dave Ziegler's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Dave Ziegler pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Aidan O'Connell totals +0.95. 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

-10135. O'Connell#135 · Aidan O'Connell · aggregate +0.95O'Connell +0.9238. Munford#238 · Thayer Munford · aggregate +0.9490. Parham#90 · Dylan Parham · aggregate +0.76100. Tucker#100 · Tre Tucker · aggregate +0.68231. Silvera#231 · Nesta Jade Silvera · aggregate +0.42104. Bennett#104 · Jakorian Bennett · aggregate +0.39170. Smith#170 · Christopher Smith · aggregate +0.21203. Burney#203 · Amari Burney · aggregate +0.12126. Farrell#126 · Neil Farrell · aggregate -0.12250. Brown#250 · Brittain Brown · aggregate -0.1835. Mayer#35 · Michael Mayer · aggregate -0.19122. White#122 · Zamir White · aggregate -0.28175. Butler#175 · Matthew Butler · aggregate -0.3970. Young#70 · Byron Young · aggregate -0.767. Wilson#7 · Tyree Wilson · aggregate -1.91

Incremental contribution by season

-3-2-10+1+2+3+42022 · Dylan Parham · incremental +0.632022 · Thayer Munford · incremental +0.702022 · Zamir White · incremental -0.262022 · Brittain Brown · incremental -0.262022 · Neil Farrell · incremental -0.292022 · Matthew Butler · incremental -0.412023 · Zamir White · incremental +0.062023 · Christopher Smith · incremental +0.122023 · Tre Tucker · incremental +0.182023 · Jakorian Bennett · incremental +0.192023 · Nesta Jade Silvera · incremental +0.412023 · Amari Burney · incremental +0.582023 · Aidan O'Connell · incremental +0.642023 · Thayer Munford · incremental +0.692023 · Dylan Parham · incremental +0.732023 · Matthew Butler · incremental -0.222023 · Michael Mayer · incremental -0.252023 · Tyree Wilson · incremental -1.442023 · Byron Young · incremental -1.652024 · Christopher Smith · incremental +0.242024 · Nesta Jade Silvera · incremental +0.432024 · Dylan Parham · incremental +0.562024 · Jakorian Bennett · incremental +0.562024 · Aidan O'Connell · incremental +0.792024 · Tre Tucker · incremental +0.922024 · Thayer Munford · incremental +0.942024 · Michael Mayer · incremental -0.032024 · Amari Burney · incremental -0.062024 · Zamir White · incremental -0.202024 · Matthew Butler · incremental -0.322024 · Tyree Wilson · incremental -1.552025 · Christopher Smith · incremental +0.082025 · Dylan Parham · incremental +0.552025 · Aidan O'Connell · incremental +0.872025 · Tre Tucker · incremental +1.012025 · Michael Mayer · incremental -0.082025 · Zamir White · incremental -0.212025 · Tyree Wilson · incremental -1.27O'Connell +0.6Young -1.7O'Connell +0.8Wilson -1.6O'Connell +0.920226 players202313 players202412 players20257 players
Above expectationBelow expectationAidan O'ConnellGM total +0.6Aidan O'Connell by season +2.3

How much retained production did Aidan O'Connell 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 Aidan O'Connell since 2010 (10 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.

-0.50+0.5+1+1.5+2+2.5+3+3.5+4+4.5Model value above slot1. ManningPeyton Manning · model value +4.9+4.9199. BradyTom Brady · model value +4.5+4.5135. PrescottDak Prescott · model value +2.9+2.910. MahomesPatrick Mahomes · model value +2.8+2.8135. O'ConnellAidan O'Connell · model value +0.6+0.6140. Thompson-RobinsonDorian Thompson-Robinson · model value +0.3139. TuneClayton Tune · model value 0135. StanziRicky Stanzi · model value 0135. SavageTom Savage · model value -0.1139. JonesCardale Jones · model value -0.1137. ZappeBailey Zappe · model value -0.1133. BookIan Book · model value -0.2133. StidhamJarrett Stidham · model value -0.5135. DobbsJoshua Dobbs · model value -0.9
Aidan O'ConnellSlot-similar peers (10)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.

'24'25049131701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (3 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2023LV11106410.669.4
2024LV96427-0.049.4
2025LV1151-1.000.0

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