Esera Tuaolo · Good GM

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played111

Games started46

Weighted career AV24

Pro Bowls0

AP1 All-Pro0

Career seasons9

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1991 · Round 2 · #35

GB draft credit

GM Tom Braatz

Team games20

Team starts16

On-team AV8

On-team PB / AP10 / 0

Terrible-1.99 contribution57th of 62 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Esera Tuaolo became a 9-season, 111-game NFL player after going #35. The retained-value model still ranks him 57th of 62 for Tom Braatz because GB only got 20 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.99. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Tom Braatz'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 · 111 full-career

Games started

on drafting team · 46 full-career

Snap-z

0.0

0 modeled seasons

Quality

Was that time valuable?

On-team AV

modeled; full weighted AV 24

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 Tom Braatz's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Tom Braatz pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Esera Tuaolo totals -1.99. 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 expectationEsera TuaoloGM total -0.8Esera Tuaolo by season -3.1

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 (9 scored seasons)

Year	Team	GP	GS	Snaps	Snap-z	AV	AV/snap
1991	GB	16	16	—	—	8	—
1992	GB, MIN	7	0	—	—	0	—
1993	MIN	11	3	—	—	2	—
1994	MIN	16	0	—	—	1	—
1995	MIN	16	16	—	—	6	—
1996	MIN	14	9	—	—	5	—
1997	JAX	6	1	—	—	1	—
1998	ATL	13	1	—	—	2	—
1999	CAR	12	0	—	—	2	—

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.