Excellent+8.27 contribution1st of 29 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
An Excellent pick
Kevin Williams was Mike Tice / Brzezinski's 1st-best of 29 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 +8.27. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Tice / Brzezinski'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
171
on drafting team · 203 full-career
Games started
171
on drafting team · 193 full-career
Snap-z
1.2
1 modeled season
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
120
modeled; full weighted AV 102
AV / 1k snaps
7.5
798 snaps in rate base
AV-rate z
-0.1
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
6
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
5 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Mike Tice / Brzezinski's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Tice / Brzezinski pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Kevin Williams totals +8.27. 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 expectationKevin WilliamsGM total +4.2Kevin Williams by season +17.3
How much retained production did Kevin Williams return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: DTs drafted within ±5 picks of Kevin Williams since 2010 (18 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.
Kevin WilliamsSlot-similar peers (18)
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 (13 scored seasons)
Year
Team
GP
GS
Snaps
Snap-z
AV
AV/snap
PB
AP1
AP2
2003
MIN
16
16
—
—
7
—
2004
MIN
16
16
—
—
12
—
✓
★
2005
MIN
14
14
—
—
6
—
2006
MIN
16
16
—
—
18
—
✓
★
2007
MIN
16
16
—
—
16
—
✓
★
2008
MIN
16
16
—
—
18
—
✓
★
2009
MIN
16
16
—
—
15
—
✓
★
2010
MIN
16
16
—
—
10
—
✓
2011
MIN
14
14
—
—
5
—
2012
MIN
16
16
—
—
7
—
2013
MIN
15
15
798
1.2
6
7.5
2014
SEA
16
6
488
0.3
5
10.2
2015
NO
16
8
636
0.9
4
6.3
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.
