LAC draft credit
GM John Butler
Team games141
Team starts141
On-team AV145
On-team PB / AP15 / 3
Excellent+9.59 contribution1st of 16 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
LaDainian Tomlinson
Drafted by LAC · GM John Butler · TCU · ★ HALL OF FAMER · ALL-DECADE TEAM
All NFL teams
Full-career context
These totals follow LaDainian Tomlinson across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.
Games played170
Games started155
Weighted career AV129
Pro Bowls5
AP1 All-Pro3
Career seasons11
Accountability by draft event
What each drafting team received
An Excellent pick
LaDainian Tomlinson was John Butler's 1st-best of 16 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 +9.59. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from John Butler'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
141
on drafting team · 170 full-career
Games started
141
on drafting team · 155 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
145
modeled; full weighted AV 129
AV / 1k snaps
—
snap-era only
AV-rate z
—
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
5
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
3 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 3
All-Decade
1
context only
Did this pick move John Butler's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every John Butler pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. LaDainian Tomlinson totals +9.59. 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 expectationLaDainian TomlinsonGM total -0.0LaDainian Tomlinson by season +15.2
How much retained production did LaDainian Tomlinson 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 LaDainian Tomlinson 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.
LaDainian TomlinsonSlot-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.
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro
Full-career season history (11 scored seasons)
| Year | Team | GP | GS | Snaps | Snap-z | AV | AV/snap | PB | AP1 | AP2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 10 | — | |||
| 2002 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 15 | — | ✓ | · | |
| 2003 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 19 | — | · | ||
| 2004 | LAC | 15 | 15 | — | — | 18 | — | ✓ | ★ | |
| 2005 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 18 | — | ✓ | · | |
| 2006 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 26 | — | ✓ | ★ | |
| 2007 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 18 | — | ✓ | ★ | |
| 2008 | LAC | 16 | 16 | — | — | 14 | — | |||
| 2009 | LAC | 14 | 14 | — | — | 7 | — | |||
| 2010 | NYJ | 15 | 13 | — | — | 8 | — | |||
| 2011 | NYJ | 14 | 1 | — | — | 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.