Steve Sewell · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played94

Games started12

Weighted career AV25

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons7

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1985 · Round 1 · #26

DEN draft credit

GM John Beake

Team games94

Team starts12

On-team AV29

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Good+0.16 contribution21st of 63 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Steve Sewell was John Beake's 21st-best of 63 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.16. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Beake'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

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 25

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

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 John Beake's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every John Beake pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Steve Sewell totals +0.16. 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 expectationSteve SewellGM total +8.2Steve Sewell by season +0.1

How much retained production did Steve Sewell return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: RBs drafted within ±5 picks of Steve Sewell since 2010 (9 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.

Steve SewellSlot-similar peers (9)

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 (7 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1985	DEN	16	2	—	—	4	—
1986	DEN	11	2	—	—	4	—
1987	DEN	7	0	—	—	3	—
1988	DEN	16	3	—	—	5	—
1989	DEN	16	3	—	—	4	—
1990	DEN	12	1	—	—	3	—
1991	DEN	16	1	—	—	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.