Christian Ponder · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played38

Games started36

Weighted career AV22

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons4

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2011 · Round 1 · #12

MIN draft credit

GM Rick Spielman

Team games38

Team starts36

On-team AV23

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Good+0.43 contribution15th of 42 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Christian Ponder was Rick Spielman's 15th-best of 42 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.43. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Rick Spielman'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

Games started

on drafting team

Snap-z

-0.8

2 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 22

AV / 1k snaps

11.7

600 snaps in rate base

AV-rate z

+0.1

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 Rick Spielman's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Rick Spielman pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Christian Ponder totals +0.43. 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 expectationChristian PonderGM total +14.0Christian Ponder by season +1.1

How much retained production did Christian Ponder 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 Christian Ponder since 2010 (13 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.

Christian PonderSlot-similar peers (13)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.

Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (5 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
2011	MIN	11	10	—	—	5	—
2012	MIN	16	16	—	—	11	—
2013	MIN	9	8	511	0.0	6	11.7
2014	MIN	2	1	89	-0.9	1	11.2
2015	—	0	0	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.