Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
A Good pick
Cecil Shorts was Gene Smith's 4th-best of 26 picks across his career.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.57. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Gene Smith'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
50
on drafting team · 70 full-career
Games started
34
on drafting team · 43 full-career
Snap-z
1.9
2 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
15
modeled; full weighted AV 19
AV / 1k snaps
5.3
1,504 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.1
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 Gene Smith's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Gene Smith pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Cecil Shorts totals +0.57. 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 expectationCecil ShortsGM total -19.7Cecil Shorts by season +1.8
How much retained production did Cecil Shorts return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: WRs drafted within ±5 picks of Cecil Shorts since 2010 (17 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.
Cecil ShortsSlot-similar peers (17)
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 (6 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2011
JAX
10
0
—
—
0
—
2012
JAX
14
9
—
—
7
—
2013
JAX
13
12
761
1.0
5
6.6
2014
JAX
13
13
743
0.9
3
4.0
2015
HOU
11
10
588
0.5
4
6.8
2016
TB
9
3
268
-0.6
1
3.7
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.
