Jim Sweeney · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played228

Games started176

Weighted career AV67

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons16

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1984 · Round 2 · #37

NYJ draft credit

GM Jim Kensil

Team games166

Team starts158

On-team AV77

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-1.89 contribution66th of 68 picks for this GM

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

A Terrible pick

Jim Sweeney was Jim Kensil's 66th-best of 68 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.89. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Jim Kensil'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

166

on drafting team · 228 full-career

Games started

158

on drafting team · 176 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 67

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

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Jim Kensil's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Jim Kensil pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Jim Sweeney totals -1.89. 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 expectationJim SweeneyGM total -20.5Jim Sweeney by season -3.9

How much retained production did Jim Sweeney return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: Cs drafted within ±5 picks of Jim Sweeney since 2010 (3 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.

Jim SweeneySlot-similar peers (3)

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 (16 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1984	NYJ	10	2	—	—	2	—
1985	NYJ	16	16	—	—	9	—
1986	NYJ	16	16	—	—	9	—
1987	NYJ	12	12	—	—	6	—
1988	NYJ	16	16	—	—	8	—
1989	NYJ	16	16	—	—	6	—
1990	NYJ	16	16	—	—	8	—
1991	NYJ	16	16	—	—	8	—
1992	NYJ	16	16	—	—	6	—
1993	NYJ	16	16	—	—	8	—
1994	NYJ	16	16	—	—	7	—
1995	SEA	16	16	—	—	8	—
1996	PIT	16	0	—	—	1	—
1997	PIT	16	1	—	—	2	—
1998	PIT	8	1	—	—	1	—
1999	PIT	6	0	—	—	1	—

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.