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Matt O'Dwyer

Drafted by NYJ · GM Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan · Northwestern

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played122
Games started105
Weighted career AV41
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1995 · Round 2 · #33

NYJ draft credit

GM Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan

Team games60
Team starts50
On-team AV25
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-1.19 contribution9th of 14 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Matt O'Dwyer became a 10-season, 122-game NFL player after going #33. The retained-value model still ranks him 9th of 14 for Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan because NYJ only got 60 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.19. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan'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
60
on drafting team · 122 full-career
Games started
50
on drafting team · 105 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
25
modeled; full weighted AV 41
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
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 Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Steve Gutman / Pat Kirwan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Matt O'Dwyer totals -1.19. 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

-5-4-3-2-10210. Hayes#210 · Chris Hayes · aggregate +0.72142. Greenwood#142 · Carl Greenwood · aggregate +0.15133. Coleman#133 · Marcus Coleman · aggregate +0.07217. Ceaser#217 · Curtis Ceaser · aggregate +0.00168. Hunter#168 · Hugh Hunter · aggregate -0.1262. Mickens#62 · Ray Mickens · aggregate -0.39106. Hayes#106 · Melvin Hayes · aggregate -0.6331. Dyke#31 · Alex Van Dyke · aggregate -0.7133. O'Dwyer#33 · Matt O'Dwyer · aggregate -1.19O'Dwyer -1.2178. Mason#178 · Eddie Mason · aggregate -1.23107. Davis#107 · Tyrone Davis · aggregate -1.3716. Douglas#16 · Hugh Douglas · aggregate -2.29Douglas -2.31. Johnson#1 · Keyshawn Johnson · aggregate -3.17Johnson -3.29. Brady#9 · Kyle Brady · aggregate -5.16Brady -5.2

Incremental contribution by season

-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-101995 · Carl Greenwood · incremental +0.091995 · Curtis Ceaser · incremental -0.041995 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.871995 · Melvin Hayes · incremental -0.931995 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -1.451995 · Eddie Mason · incremental -1.901995 · Tyrone Davis · incremental -1.981995 · Kyle Brady · incremental -4.901996 · Carl Greenwood · incremental +0.121996 · Chris Hayes · incremental -0.031996 · Melvin Hayes · incremental -0.101996 · Marcus Coleman · incremental -0.251996 · Hugh Hunter · incremental -0.301996 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.331996 · Tyrone Davis · incremental -0.341996 · Ray Mickens · incremental -0.681996 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental -0.811996 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -0.821996 · Kyle Brady · incremental -0.861996 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -2.331997 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.081997 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.111997 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.271997 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental -0.211997 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.351997 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -0.611997 · Kyle Brady · incremental -1.091997 · Hugh Douglas · incremental -1.351998 · Alex Van Dyke · incremental +0.031998 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.041998 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.071998 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.251998 · Matt O'Dwyer · incremental -0.371998 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -0.721998 · Kyle Brady · incremental -1.371999 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.021999 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.091999 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.251999 · Keyshawn Johnson · incremental -1.632000 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.092000 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.122000 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.292001 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.042001 · Marcus Coleman · incremental +0.102001 · Chris Hayes · incremental +0.262002 · Ray Mickens · incremental +0.092003 · Ray Mickens · incremental -0.13O'Dwyer -0.9Mason -1.9Davis -2.0Brady -4.9O'Dwyer -0.3Johnson -2.3O'Dwyer -0.3O'Dwyer -0.4Johnson -1.619958 players199612 players19978 players19987 players19994 players20003 players20013 players20021 player20031 player
Above expectationBelow expectationMatt O'DwyerGM total -15.3Matt O'Dwyer by season -1.9

How much retained production did Matt O'Dwyer return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: Gs drafted within ±5 picks of Matt O'Dwyer since 2010 (8 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.

-1-0.50+0.5Model value above slot35. BitonioJoel Bitonio · model value +0.737. SmithBraden Smith · model value +0.331. IfediGermain Ifedi · model value -0.438. LampForrest Lamp · model value -0.433. O'DwyerMatt O'Dwyer · model value -0.5-0.534. HernandezWill Hernandez · model value -0.528. GarnettJoshua Garnett · model value -0.633. Su'a-FiloXavier Su'a-Filo · model value -0.728. TomlinsonLaken Tomlinson · model value -1
Matt O'DwyerSlot-similar peers (8)

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.

'96'98'00'02'04026537910501Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1995NYJ1221
1996NYJ16167
1997NYJ16168
1998NYJ16169
1999CIN16167
2000CIN10103
2001CIN12124
2002CIN16167
2003CIN411
2004TB400

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