Excellent+0.87 contribution6th of 27 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Julian Peterson was Bill Walsh's 6th-best of 27 picks across his career.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.87. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bill Walsh'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
79
on drafting team · 158 full-career
Games started
72
on drafting team · 147 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
42
modeled; full weighted AV 69
AV / 1k snaps
—
snap-era only
AV-rate z
—
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
2
5 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
1 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 1
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Bill Walsh's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Bill Walsh pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Julian Peterson totals +0.87. 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 expectationJulian PetersonGM total -3.8Julian Peterson by season +1.9
How much retained production did Julian Peterson 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 Julian Peterson since 2010 (12 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.
Julian PetersonSlot-similar peers (12)
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 (11 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2000
SF
13
7
—
—
3
—
2001
SF
14
14
—
—
7
—
2002
SF
16
16
—
—
11
—
✓
·
2003
SF
16
16
—
—
14
—
✓
★
2004
SF
5
5
—
—
2
—
2005
SF
15
14
—
—
5
—
2006
SEA
16
16
—
—
11
—
2007
SEA
16
16
—
—
11
—
2008
SEA
16
15
—
—
9
—
2009
DET
16
14
—
—
5
—
2010
DET
15
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.
