Darius Slay · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played187

Games started176

Weighted career AV66

Pro Bowls6

AP1 All-Pro1

Career seasons13

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2013 · Round 2 · #36

DET draft credit

GM Martin Mayhew

Team games103

Team starts94

On-team AV48

On-team PB / AP13 / 1

Excellent+0.92 contribution6th of 53 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Darius Slay was Martin Mayhew's 6th-best of 53 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.92. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Martin Mayhew'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

103

on drafting team · 187 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 176 full-career

Snap-z

7.9

7 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 66

AV / 1k snaps

7.6

6,300 snaps in rate base

AV-rate z

+0.6

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

6 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

1 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Martin Mayhew's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Martin Mayhew pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Darius Slay totals +0.92. 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 expectationDarius SlayGM total -23.5Darius Slay by season +2.0

How much retained production did Darius Slay 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 Darius Slay 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.

Darius SlaySlot-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 Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (13 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP1
2013	DET	13	10	508	-0.2	2	3.9
2014	DET	16	16	1,042	1.5	6	5.8
2015	DET	16	16	1,042	1.4	5	4.8
2016	DET	13	11	777	0.8	5	6.4
2017	DET	16	16	1,147	1.8	14	12.2	✓	★
2018	DET	15	15	921	1.3	9	9.8	✓
2019	DET	14	13	863	1.2	7	8.1	✓
2020	PHI	15	14	946	1.5	5	5.3
2021	PHI	16	16	956	1.5	9	9.4
2022	PHI	17	16	1,003	1.6	8	8.0
2023	PHI	12	12	809	1.1	6	7.4
2024	PHI	14	12	699	0.7	6	8.6
2025	PIT	10	8	512	0.3	3	5.9

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.