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Cam Ward

Drafted by TEN · GM Mike Borgonzi · Miami (FL)

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played17
Games started17
Weighted career AV7
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons1

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

2025 · Round 1 · #1

TEN draft credit

GM Mike Borgonzi

Team games17
Team starts17
On-team AV7
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-1.82 contribution9th of 9 picks for this GM

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

A Terrible pick

Cam Ward was Mike Borgonzi's 9th-best of 9 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.82. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Borgonzi'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
17
on drafting team
Games started
17
on drafting team
Snap-z
1.5
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
7
modeled; full weighted AV 7
AV / 1k snaps
7.0
1,007 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.9
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only

Did this pick move Mike Borgonzi's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Borgonzi pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Cam Ward totals -1.82. 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

-10+1+2103. Dike#103 · Chimere Dike · aggregate +2.03Dike +2.0120. Helm#120 · Gunnar Helm · aggregate +0.69183. Harris#183 · Marcus Harris · aggregate +0.60136. Ayomanor#136 · Elic Ayomanor · aggregate +0.36188. Mullings#188 · Kalel Mullings · aggregate +0.29167. Slater#167 · Jackson Slater · aggregate +0.1382. Winston#82 · Kevin Winston · aggregate -0.0752. Oladejo#52 · Oluwafemi Oladejo · aggregate -0.471. Ward#1 · Cam Ward · aggregate -1.82Ward -1.8

Incremental contribution by season

-4-20+2+4+6+82025 · Jackson Slater · incremental +0.362025 · Kalel Mullings · incremental +0.712025 · Elic Ayomanor · incremental +1.182025 · Marcus Harris · incremental +1.322025 · Gunnar Helm · incremental +1.612025 · Chimere Dike · incremental +4.372025 · Kevin Winston · incremental -0.212025 · Oluwafemi Oladejo · incremental -1.042025 · Cam Ward · incremental -3.87Helm +1.6Dike +4.4Ward -3.920259 players
Above expectationBelow expectationCam WardGM total +1.7Cam Ward by season -3.9

How much retained production did Cam Ward 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 Cam Ward since 2010 (26 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.

-10+1+2+3+4Model value above slot1. ManningPeyton Manning · model value +4.9+4.9199. BradyTom Brady · model value +4.5+4.510. MahomesPatrick Mahomes · model value +2.8+2.81. NewtonCam Newton · model value +1.66. HerbertJustin Herbert · model value +1.31. LuckAndrew Luck · model value +1.22. DanielsJayden Daniels · model value +1.11. MurrayKyler Murray · model value +0.91. BurrowJoe Burrow · model value +0.83. MayeDrake Maye · model value +0.75. TagovailoaTua Tagovailoa · model value +0.41. LawrenceTrevor Lawrence · model value +0.22. StroudC.J. Stroud · model value +0.11. WilliamsCaleb Williams · model value 03. BortlesBlake Bortles · model value -0.26. JonesDaniel Jones · model value -0.31. WinstonJameis Winston · model value -0.31. MayfieldBaker Mayfield · model value -0.41. GoffJared Goff · model value -0.42. MariotaMarcus Mariota · model value -0.54. RichardsonAnthony Richardson · model value -0.52. TrubiskyMitchell Trubisky · model value -0.71. YoungBryce Young · model value -0.72. WentzCarson Wentz · model value -0.72. IIIRobert Griffin III · model value -0.81. BradfordSam Bradford · model value -1.12. WilsonZach Wilson · model value -1.33. LanceTrey Lance · model value -1.31. WardCam Ward · model value -1.6-1.63. DarnoldSam Darnold · model value -1.7
Cam WardSlot-similar peers (26)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.

'25048121601Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (1 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
2025TEN17161,0071.577.0

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