Terrible-2.23 contribution39th of 42 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Long-career hit
Delanie Walker became a 14-season, 183-game NFL player after going #175. The retained-value model still ranks him 39th of 42 for Scot McCloughan because SF only got 99 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -2.23. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Scot McCloughan'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
99
on drafting team · 183 full-career
Games started
40
on drafting team · 100 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
12
modeled; full weighted AV 39
AV / 1k snaps
—
snap-era only
AV-rate z
—
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
3 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Scot McCloughan's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Scot McCloughan pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Delanie Walker totals -2.23. 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 expectationDelanie WalkerGM total -3.4Delanie Walker by season -3.0
How much retained production did Delanie Walker 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 Delanie Walker since 2010 (23 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.
Delanie WalkerSlot-similar peers (23)
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 (14 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2006
SF
7
1
—
—
0
—
2007
SF
16
10
—
—
1
—
2008
SF
15
2
—
—
1
—
2009
SF
16
8
—
—
2
—
2010
SF
14
8
—
—
3
—
2011
SF
15
7
—
—
2
—
2012
SF
16
4
—
—
3
—
2013
TEN
15
13
782
1.2
5
6.4
2014
TEN
15
15
777
1.2
6
7.7
2015
TEN
15
15
686
0.9
8
11.7
2016
TEN
15
15
712
1.1
7
9.8
2017
TEN
16
16
746
1.1
7
9.4
2018
TEN
1
1
39
-1.4
0
0.0
2019
TEN
7
3
193
-0.7
2
10.4
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.
