← 2021 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R5 · #166 OVERALL · DB

Keith Taylor

Drafted by CAR · GM Scott Fitterer · Washington

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played47
Games started5
Weighted career AV5
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons5

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2021 · Round 5 · #166

CAR draft credit

GM Scott Fitterer

Team games34
Team starts5
On-team AV4
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Average-0.21 contribution8th of 22 picks for this GM

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

An Average pick

Keith Taylor was Scott Fitterer's 8th-best of 22 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.21. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Scott Fitterer'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
34
on drafting team · 47 full-career
Games started
5
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.9
2 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
4
modeled; full weighted AV 5
AV / 1k snaps
3.3
1,217 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.2
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 Scott Fitterer's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Scott Fitterer pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Keith Taylor totals -0.21. 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

-10+1126. Hubbard#126 · Chuba Hubbard · aggregate +1.468. Horn#8 · Jaycee Horn · aggregate +0.70199. Mays#199 · Cade Mays · aggregate +0.6783. Tremble#83 · Tommy Tremble · aggregate +0.29114. Zavala#114 · Chandler Zavala · aggregate +0.26189. Barno#189 · Amare Barno · aggregate +0.2370. Christensen#70 · Brady Christensen · aggregate -0.20166. Taylor#166 · Keith Taylor · aggregate -0.21Taylor -0.2145. Robinson#145 · Jammie Robinson · aggregate -0.27204. Smith#204 · Shi Smith · aggregate -0.37242. Barnes#242 · Kalon Barnes · aggregate -0.4959. Jr.#59 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · aggregate -0.581. Young#1 · Bryce Young · aggregate -0.616. Ekwonu#6 · Ikem Ekwonu · aggregate -0.63232. Hoskins#232 · Phil Hoskins · aggregate -0.6794. Corral#94 · Matt Corral · aggregate -0.7480. Johnson#80 · DJ Johnson · aggregate -0.81120. Smith#120 · Brandon Smith · aggregate -0.95158. Nixon#158 · Daviyon Nixon · aggregate -0.98222. Fletcher#222 · Thomas Fletcher · aggregate -0.9939. Mingo#39 · Jonathan Mingo · aggregate -1.07193. Brown#193 · Deonte Brown · aggregate -1.17

Incremental contribution by season

-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+32021 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.152021 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.682021 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.052021 · Keith Taylor · incremental -0.172021 · Jaycee Horn · incremental -0.192021 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.252021 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.412021 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.772021 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.812021 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -1.072021 · Deonte Brown · incremental -1.772022 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.242022 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.382022 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.502022 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.592022 · Brady Christensen · incremental +1.412022 · Jaycee Horn · incremental -0.062022 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.112022 · Keith Taylor · incremental -0.162022 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.242022 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.422022 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.512022 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.562022 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.572022 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.672022 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.812022 · Matt Corral · incremental -1.112022 · Brandon Smith · incremental -1.412023 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.022023 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.252023 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.262023 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.352023 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.472023 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +1.022023 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.102023 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.192023 · Terrace Marshall Jr. · incremental -0.212023 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232023 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.242023 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.252023 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.312023 · Jammie Robinson · incremental -0.392023 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.452023 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.552023 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.792023 · Brady Christensen · incremental -1.122023 · Jonathan Mingo · incremental -1.672024 · Amare Barno · incremental +0.142024 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.202024 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.202024 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.422024 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.822024 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +1.102024 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.102024 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.112024 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.182024 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.222024 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.222024 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.222024 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232024 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.232024 · Jammie Robinson · incremental -0.252024 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.322024 · Brandon Smith · incremental -0.392024 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.462024 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.472024 · Jonathan Mingo · incremental -0.592025 · Chandler Zavala · incremental +0.062025 · Tommy Tremble · incremental +0.332025 · Cade Mays · incremental +0.402025 · Chuba Hubbard · incremental +0.642025 · Jaycee Horn · incremental +0.782025 · Ikem Ekwonu · incremental -0.112025 · Kalon Barnes · incremental -0.182025 · Phil Hoskins · incremental -0.202025 · Matt Corral · incremental -0.232025 · Shi Smith · incremental -0.232025 · Deonte Brown · incremental -0.252025 · Daviyon Nixon · incremental -0.302025 · Bryce Young · incremental -0.312025 · Brandon Smith · incremental -0.392025 · Brady Christensen · incremental -0.502025 · Thomas Fletcher · incremental -0.512025 · DJ Johnson · incremental -0.66Taylor -0.2Brown -1.8Taylor -0.2Mingo -1.7202111 players202217 players202319 players202420 players202517 players
Above expectationBelow expectationKeith TaylorGM total -7.1Keith Taylor by season -0.3

How much retained production did Keith Taylor 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 Keith Taylor since 2010 (19 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+1Model value above slot167. BlandDaRon Bland · model value +1.2163. JonesReshad Jones · model value +1.1169. EvansJosh Evans · model value +0.8167. IlokaGeorge Iloka · model value +0.7165. SmithTerell Smith · model value +0.5162. WhiteCorey White · model value +0.3169. OladapoKitan Oladapo · model value +0.2170. SmithChristopher Smith · model value +0.2170. RaymondMistral Raymond · model value +0.1171. SchillingerShann Schillinger · model value +0.1169. JacksonAsa Jackson · model value -0.1162. ReynoldsEd Reynolds · model value -0.1167. SunseriVinnie Sunseri · model value -0.1169. LeCounteRichard LeCounte · model value -0.2166. TaylorKeith Taylor · model value -0.2-0.2170. ReaserKeith Reaser · model value -0.2164. JohnsonJamar Johnson · model value -0.3165. DavisShawn Davis · model value -0.3164. BrownChykie Brown · model value -0.3164. ButlerCrezdon Butler · model value -0.4
Keith TaylorSlot-similar peers (19)

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.

'22'24'250714202701Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (5 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2021CAR17146700.723.0
2022CAR1785470.223.7
20230000
2024KC114211-0.714.7
2025ATL, JAX2172-1.000.0

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