← 1993 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R1 · #21 OVERALL · RB

Robert Smith

Drafted by MIN · GM Roger Headrick · Ohio St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played98
Games started72
Weighted career AV60
Pro Bowls2
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons8

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1993 · Round 1 · #21

MIN draft credit

GM Roger Headrick

Team games98
Team starts72
On-team AV67
On-team PB / AP11 / 0
Excellent+2.83 contribution2nd of 12 picks for this GM

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

An Excellent pick

Robert Smith was Roger Headrick's 2nd-best of 12 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +2.83. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Roger Headrick'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
98
on drafting team
Games started
72
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
67
modeled; full weighted AV 60
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
1
2 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 1
All-Decade
0
context only

Did this pick move Roger Headrick's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Roger Headrick pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Robert Smith totals +2.83. 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

-3-2-10+1+2125. McDaniel#125 · Ed McDaniel · aggregate +2.94McDaniel +2.921. Smith#21 · Robert Smith · aggregate +2.83Smith +2.8192. Torretta#192 · Gino Torretta · aggregate +0.2998. Barker#98 · Roy Barker · aggregate +0.2857. Gerak#57 · John Gerak · aggregate +0.15183. Wilson#183 · David Wilson · aggregate -0.10152. Gaddis#152 · Mike Gaddis · aggregate -0.28106. Sheppard#106 · Ashley Sheppard · aggregate -0.35133. Lindsay#133 · Everett Lindsay · aggregate -0.4452. Ismail#52 · Qadry Ismail · aggregate -1.5939. Harris#39 · Robert Harris · aggregate -1.6979. Brown#79 · Gilbert Brown · aggregate -3.17Brown -3.2

Incremental contribution by season

-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+21992 · Roy Barker · incremental -0.131992 · Ed McDaniel · incremental -0.151992 · David Wilson · incremental -0.241992 · Mike Gaddis · incremental -0.511992 · Robert Harris · incremental -0.591993 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.121993 · Roy Barker · incremental +0.191993 · Gino Torretta · incremental +0.411993 · Robert Smith · incremental -0.001993 · John Gerak · incremental -0.011993 · Ashley Sheppard · incremental -0.451993 · Robert Harris · incremental -0.531993 · Everett Lindsay · incremental -0.551993 · Qadry Ismail · incremental -1.061993 · Gilbert Brown · incremental -4.991994 · John Gerak · incremental +0.111994 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.151994 · Roy Barker · incremental +0.191994 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.661994 · Ashley Sheppard · incremental -0.141994 · Qadry Ismail · incremental -0.641994 · Robert Harris · incremental -1.461995 · Everett Lindsay · incremental +0.101995 · John Gerak · incremental +0.131995 · Roy Barker · incremental +0.191995 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.261995 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.781995 · Qadry Ismail · incremental -0.401996 · John Gerak · incremental +0.101996 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.251996 · Qadry Ismail · incremental -0.431997 · Everett Lindsay · incremental +0.021997 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.591997 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.611998 · Everett Lindsay · incremental +0.021998 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.691998 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.731999 · Robert Smith · incremental +0.501999 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.662000 · Roy Barker · incremental +0.012000 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.572000 · Robert Smith · incremental +1.492001 · Ed McDaniel · incremental +0.512001 · Everett Lindsay · incremental -0.112002 · Everett Lindsay · incremental -0.042003 · Everett Lindsay · incremental +0.07Smith -0.0Brown -5.0Smith +0.1Smith +0.3Smith +0.3Smith +0.6Smith +0.7Smith +0.5Smith +1.519925 players199310 players19947 players19956 players19963 players19973 players19983 players19992 players20003 players20012 players20021 player20031 player
Above expectationBelow expectationRobert SmithGM total -1.1Robert Smith by season +3.9

How much retained production did Robert Smith 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 Robert Smith since 2010 (4 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.

0+0.5+1+1.5Model value above slot21. SmithRobert Smith · model value +1.7+1.724. JacobsJosh Jacobs · model value +0.425. EtienneTravis Etienne · model value +0.324. HarrisNajee Harris · model value 022. HamptonOmarion Hampton · model value -0.4
Robert SmithSlot-similar peers (4)

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.

'94'96'98'0001836547201Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (8 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1993MIN1023
1994MIN1401
1995MIN974
1996MIN874
1997MIN141412
1998MIN141416
1999MIN131210
2000MIN161617·

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