Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Buster Skrine became a 11-season, 158-game NFL player after going #137. The retained-value model still ranks him 19th of 27 for Tom Heckert because CLE only got 64 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.82. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Tom Heckert'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
64
on drafting team · 158 full-career
Games started
37
on drafting team · 95 full-career
Snap-z
3.8
2 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
17
modeled; full weighted AV 35
AV / 1k snaps
4.9
2,449 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 Tom Heckert's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Tom Heckert pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Buster Skrine totals -0.82. 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 expectationBuster SkrineGM total -15.7Buster Skrine by season -1.7
How much retained production did Buster Skrine return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DBs drafted within ±5 picks of Buster Skrine since 2010 (20 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.
Buster SkrineSlot-similar peers (20)
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
2011
CLE
16
0
—
—
2
—
2012
CLE
16
6
—
—
3
—
2013
CLE
16
15
1,172
1.6
5
4.3
2014
CLE
16
16
1,277
2.2
7
5.5
2015
NYJ
16
12
816
0.8
4
4.9
2016
NYJ
14
13
918
1.2
5
5.4
2017
NYJ
15
15
1,092
1.7
6
5.5
2018
NYJ
14
12
817
1.0
4
4.9
2019
CHI
16
13
846
1.1
3
3.5
2020
CHI
12
11
638
0.9
2
3.1
2021
SF, TEN
7
3
250
-1.7
1
4.0
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.
