Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Sheldon Richardson became a 9-season, 138-game NFL player after going #13. The retained-value model still ranks him 9th of 19 for John Idzik because NYJ only got 58 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.59. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Idzik'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
58
on drafting team · 138 full-career
Games started
56
on drafting team · 125 full-career
Snap-z
5.8
4 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
36
modeled; full weighted AV 61
AV / 1k snaps
10.9
3,290 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.4
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
1 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move John Idzik's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every John Idzik pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Sheldon Richardson totals -0.59. 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 expectationSheldon RichardsonGM total -13.1Sheldon Richardson by season -1.2
How much retained production did Sheldon Richardson return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Sheldon Richardson since 2010 (19 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.
Sheldon RichardsonSlot-similar peers (19)
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 (9 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2013
NYJ
16
15
962
1.7
13
13.5
2014
NYJ
16
15
888
1.8
11
12.4
2015
NYJ
11
11
646
0.9
6
9.3
2016
NYJ
15
15
794
1.4
6
7.6
2017
SEA
15
14
716
1.2
8
11.2
2018
MIN
16
16
779
1.4
9
11.6
2019
CLE
16
16
837
1.7
8
9.6
2020
CLE
16
16
860
1.8
7
8.1
2021
MIN
17
10
760
1.3
4
5.3
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.
