Al Smith · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played125

Games started124

Weighted career AV54

Pro Bowls2

AP1 All-Pro1

Career seasons10

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1987 · Round 6 · #147

TEN draft credit

GM Ladd Herzeg

Team games125

Team starts124

On-team AV63

On-team PB / AP12 / 1

Excellent+5.55 contribution3rd of 71 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Al Smith was Ladd Herzeg's 3rd-best of 71 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +5.55. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Ladd Herzeg'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

125

on drafting team

Games started

124

on drafting team

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 54

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

1 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Ladd Herzeg's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Ladd Herzeg pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Al Smith totals +5.55. 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 expectationAl SmithGM total +33.0Al Smith by season +9.5

How much retained production did Al Smith return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: LBs drafted within ±5 picks of Al Smith 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.

Al SmithSlot-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 (10 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap	PB	AP1
1987	TEN	12	11	—	—	5	—
1988	TEN	16	16	—	—	6	—
1989	TEN	15	15	—	—	5	—
1990	TEN	15	15	—	—	7	—
1991	TEN	16	16	—	—	11	—	✓
1992	TEN	16	16	—	—	14	—	✓	★
1993	TEN	16	16	—	—	7	—
1994	TEN	16	16	—	—	7	—
1995	TEN	2	2	—	—	1	—
1996	TEN	1	1	—	—	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.