Excellent+2.65 contribution1st of 19 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Demaryius Thomas was Brian Xanders's 1st-best of 19 picks across his career, the best pick of the entire tenure.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +2.65. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Brian Xanders'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
125
on drafting team · 143 full-career
Games started
111
on drafting team · 128 full-career
Snap-z
8.5
6 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
76
modeled; full weighted AV 69
AV / 1k snaps
10.8
5,254 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
+0.7
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
2
5 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 2
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Brian Xanders's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Brian Xanders pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Demaryius Thomas totals +2.65. 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 expectationDemaryius ThomasGM total -2.0Demaryius Thomas by season +6.5
How much retained production did Demaryius Thomas return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: WRs drafted within ±5 picks of Demaryius Thomas since 2010 (27 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.
Demaryius ThomasSlot-similar peers (27)
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 BowlsAP1 All-ProAP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (10 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2010
DEN
10
2
—
—
2
—
2011
DEN
11
5
—
—
4
—
2012
DEN
16
16
—
—
13
—
✓
2013
DEN
16
16
1,112
2.1
14
12.6
·
2014
DEN
16
16
1,028
1.8
16
15.6
·
2015
DEN
16
16
932
1.6
9
9.7
2016
DEN
16
16
887
1.4
8
9.0
✓
2017
DEN
16
16
890
1.6
7
7.9
2018
DEN, HOU
15
15
764
0.0
5
6.5
2019
NYJ
11
10
462
0.2
3
6.5
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.
