Vinny Testaverde · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played233

Games started214

Weighted career AV97

Pro Bowls2

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons21

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1987 · Round 1 · #1

TB draft credit

GM Phil Krueger

Team games76

Team starts72

On-team AV41

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-12.69 contribution104th of 104 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Vinny Testaverde became a 21-season, 233-game NFL player after going #1. The retained-value model still ranks him 104th of 104 for Phil Krueger because TB only got 76 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -12.69. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Phil Krueger's leaderboard composite θ.

Full-career context prevents this from being labeled as a bad talent pick: the negative model score is about retained team value, not whether the draft identified an NFL-caliber player.

The walkthrough below shows which bucket carried the pick: playing time, value quality, or league honors.

Opportunity

Did he earn the field?

Games played

on drafting team · 233 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 214 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 97

AV / 1k snaps

—

snap-era only

AV-rate z

—

position-year adjusted quality

Recognition

Did the league notice?

Pro Bowls

2 full-career

AP1 All-Pro

0 AP1

all on drafting team · AP2 context 0

All-Decade

context only

Did this pick move Phil Krueger's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Phil Krueger pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Vinny Testaverde totals -12.69. 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 expectationVinny TestaverdeGM total -36.6Vinny Testaverde by season -21.3

How much retained production did Vinny Testaverde return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: QBs drafted within ±5 picks of Vinny Testaverde since 2010 (27 players). Dark marks are GOAT-tier benchmarks (Brady, Manning, Mahomes) for orientation.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.

Vinny TestaverdeSlot-similar peers (27)GOAT QBs (Brady, Manning, Mahomes)

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 (21 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1987	TB	6	4	—	—	4	—
1988	TB	15	15	—	—	6	—
1989	TB	14	14	—	—	9	—
1990	TB	14	13	—	—	9	—
1991	TB	13	12	—	—	4	—
1992	TB	14	14	—	—	9	—
1993	CLE	10	6	—	—	7	—
1994	CLE	14	13	—	—	9	—
1995	CLE	13	12	—	—	9	—
1996	BAL	16	16	—	—	16	—
1997	BAL	13	13	—	—	8	—
1998	NYJ	14	13	—	—	14	—
1999	NYJ	1	1	—	—	0	—
2000	NYJ	16	16	—	—	9	—
2001	NYJ	16	16	—	—	10	—
2002	NYJ	5	4	—	—	2	—
2003	NYJ	7	7	—	—	5	—
2004	DAL	16	15	—	—	9	—
2005	NYJ	6	4	—	—	2	—
2006	NE	3	0	—	—	0	—
2007	CAR	7	6	—	—	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.