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Tyjae Spears

Drafted by TEN · GM Ran Carthon · Tulane

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played42
Games started3
Weighted career AV13
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons3

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2023 · Round 3 · #81

TEN draft credit

GM Ran Carthon

Team games42
Team starts3
On-team AV13
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.19 contribution9th of 13 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Tyjae Spears was Ran Carthon's 9th-best of 13 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.19. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Ran Carthon'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
42
on drafting team
Games started
3
on drafting team
Snap-z
2.1
3 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
13
modeled; full weighted AV 13
AV / 1k snaps
9.8
1,328 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.0
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 Ran Carthon's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Ran Carthon pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Tyjae Spears totals +0.19. 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

-10146. Brownlee#146 · Jarvis Brownlee · aggregate +0.80252. Harrell#252 · Jaylen Harrell · aggregate +0.48182. Jackson#182 · Jha'Quan Jackson · aggregate +0.45186. Duncan#186 · Jaelyn Duncan · aggregate +0.4438. Sweat#38 · T'Vondre Sweat · aggregate +0.4433. Levis#33 · Will Levis · aggregate +0.42147. Whyle#147 · Josh Whyle · aggregate +0.41242. Williams#242 · James Williams · aggregate +0.3581. Spears#81 · Tyjae Spears · aggregate +0.19Spears +0.2106. Gray#106 · Cedric Gray · aggregate -0.06228. Dowell#228 · Colton Dowell · aggregate -0.1111. Skoronski#11 · Peter Skoronski · aggregate -1.037. Latham#7 · JC Latham · aggregate -1.61

Incremental contribution by season

-2-10+1+2+3+4+5+6+72023 · Tyjae Spears · incremental +0.182023 · Josh Whyle · incremental +0.212023 · Will Levis · incremental +0.472023 · Jaelyn Duncan · incremental +0.682023 · Colton Dowell · incremental -0.102023 · Peter Skoronski · incremental -0.712024 · Tyjae Spears · incremental +0.142024 · Jaelyn Duncan · incremental +0.432024 · Jaylen Harrell · incremental +0.512024 · Will Levis · incremental +0.622024 · Josh Whyle · incremental +0.642024 · T'Vondre Sweat · incremental +0.642024 · James Williams · incremental +0.882024 · Jha'Quan Jackson · incremental +1.102024 · Jarvis Brownlee · incremental +2.212024 · Colton Dowell · incremental -0.092024 · Cedric Gray · incremental -0.152024 · Peter Skoronski · incremental -0.592024 · JC Latham · incremental -2.082025 · Tyjae Spears · incremental +0.182025 · Cedric Gray · incremental +0.202025 · James Williams · incremental +0.312025 · T'Vondre Sweat · incremental +0.342025 · Jaylen Harrell · incremental +1.082025 · Colton Dowell · incremental -0.102025 · Jarvis Brownlee · incremental -0.282025 · Peter Skoronski · incremental -0.552025 · JC Latham · incremental -1.33Spears +0.2Spears +0.1Brownlee +2.2Latham -2.1Spears +0.220236 players202413 players20259 players
Above expectationBelow expectationTyjae SpearsGM total +1.2Tyjae Spears by season +0.5

How much retained production did Tyjae Spears 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 Tyjae Spears since 2010 (9 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.

-0.50+0.5+1+1.5Model value above slot84. AchaneDe'Von Achane · model value +1.686. JohnsonDavid Johnson · model value +0.586. HuntKareem Hunt · model value +0.583. CorumBlake Corum · model value +0.281. SpearsTyjae Spears · model value +0.1+0.184. PierceBernard Pierce · model value 083. JohnsonKaleb Johnson · model value -0.186. MossZack Moss · model value -0.177. JohnsonDuke Johnson · model value -0.476. VaughnKe'Shawn Vaughn · model value -0.8
Tyjae SpearsSlot-similar peers (9)

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.

'24'250510141901Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (3 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2023TEN17126051.469.9
2024TEN1233490.238.6
2025TEN1343740.4410.7

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