← 1982 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R1 · #27 OVERALL · NT

Lester Williams

Drafted by NE · GM Bucko Kilroy · Miami (FL)

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played46
Games started13
Weighted career AV13
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons6

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1982 · Round 1 · #27

NE draft credit

GM Bucko Kilroy

Team games40
Team starts13
On-team AV13
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Bad-0.69 contribution23rd of 25 picks for this GM

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

A Bad pick

Lester Williams was Bucko Kilroy's 23rd-best of 25 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -0.69. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bucko Kilroy'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
40
on drafting team · 46 full-career
Games started
13
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
13
modeled; full weighted AV 13
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
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 Bucko Kilroy's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Bucko Kilroy pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Lester Williams totals -0.69. 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

-6-4-20+2+4+641. Tippett#41 · Andre Tippett · aggregate +7.88Tippett +7.9112. Marion#112 · Fred Marion · aggregate +3.65Marion +3.6157. Wooten#157 · Ron Wooten · aggregate +2.51Wooten +2.519. Holloway#19 · Brian Holloway · aggregate +2.28Holloway +2.3102. Blackmon#102 · Don Blackmon · aggregate +2.23Blackmon +2.247. Collins#47 · Tony Collins · aggregate +1.4045. McGrew#45 · Larry McGrew · aggregate +0.3014. James#14 · Roland James · aggregate +0.2156. Jones#56 · Cedric Jones · aggregate +0.07185. Toler#185 · Ken Toler · aggregate -0.0560. Weishuhn#60 · Clayton Weishuhn · aggregate -0.19160. Brown#160 · Preston Brown · aggregate -0.25141. Smith#141 · Ricky Smith · aggregate -0.3055. Haley#55 · Darryl Haley · aggregate -0.4740. Weathers#40 · Robert Weathers · aggregate -0.47130. Clark#130 · Steve Clark · aggregate -0.50124. McDougald#124 · Doug McDougald · aggregate -0.51168. Roberts#168 · Jeff Roberts · aggregate -0.62111. Ingram#111 · Brian Ingram · aggregate -0.6425. Ferguson#25 · Vagas Ferguson · aggregate -0.6585. Crump#85 · George Crump · aggregate -0.66180. Kearns#180 · Tom Kearns · aggregate -0.6927. Williams#27 · Lester Williams · aggregate -0.69Williams -0.71. Sims#1 · Kenneth Sims · aggregate -1.2973. McMichael#73 · Steve McMichael · aggregate -6.55McMichael -6.5

Incremental contribution by season

-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-20+2+4+6+81980 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.101980 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.741980 · Doug McDougald · incremental -0.881980 · Tom Kearns · incremental -1.141980 · Larry McGrew · incremental -1.811980 · Roland James · incremental -2.871980 · Steve McMichael · incremental -10.491981 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.061981 · Roland James · incremental +0.221981 · Ken Toler · incremental -0.071981 · Brian Holloway · incremental -0.101981 · Tony Collins · incremental -0.131981 · Ron Wooten · incremental -0.141981 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.231981 · Steve Clark · incremental -0.841982 · Ken Toler · incremental +0.021982 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.131982 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171982 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.181982 · Roland James · incremental +0.181982 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.301982 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.371982 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.531982 · Vagas Ferguson · incremental -0.021982 · Fred Marion · incremental -0.031982 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.221982 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.221982 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.281982 · Preston Brown · incremental -0.301982 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.481982 · Cedric Jones · incremental -0.561982 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.711982 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.721982 · Jeff Roberts · incremental -1.041982 · George Crump · incremental -1.101982 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -1.331983 · Brian Ingram · incremental +0.001983 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081983 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.171983 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.251983 · Roland James · incremental +0.371983 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.461983 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.521983 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.601983 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.641983 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.201983 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.011983 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.021983 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.101983 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.161983 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.161983 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.371984 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011984 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121984 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.201984 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.281984 · Roland James · incremental +0.331984 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.491984 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651984 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701984 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.231984 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.401984 · Ricky Smith · incremental -0.011984 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.011984 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.051984 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111984 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141984 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.341985 · Robert Weathers · incremental +0.011985 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141985 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.251985 · Roland James · incremental +0.371985 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.371985 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561985 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.621985 · Brian Holloway · incremental +1.221985 · Fred Marion · incremental +1.631985 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.251985 · Brian Ingram · incremental -0.111985 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.141985 · Lester Williams · incremental -0.211986 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.151986 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.271986 · Brian Holloway · incremental +0.271986 · Roland James · incremental +0.341986 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.401986 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.651986 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671986 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.701986 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.301986 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021986 · Robert Weathers · incremental -0.021986 · Clayton Weishuhn · incremental -0.051986 · Darryl Haley · incremental -0.121987 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.081987 · Roland James · incremental +0.131987 · Don Blackmon · incremental +0.171987 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.231987 · Tony Collins · incremental +0.291987 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.531987 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.551987 · Andre Tippett · incremental +3.191987 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.091988 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.141988 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301988 · Roland James · incremental +0.341988 · Ron Wooten · incremental +0.561988 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.671988 · Andre Tippett · incremental +1.331988 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.021989 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.071989 · Larry McGrew · incremental +0.301989 · Roland James · incremental +0.301989 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.601989 · Kenneth Sims · incremental -0.121990 · Roland James · incremental +0.101990 · Cedric Jones · incremental +0.121990 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.401990 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.621991 · Fred Marion · incremental +0.421991 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.561992 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.431993 · Andre Tippett · incremental +0.58McGrew -1.8James -2.9McMichael -10.5Williams -0.7Williams -0.2Williams -0.1Marion +1.6Tippett +3.3Williams -0.2Tippett +3.219807 players19818 players198221 players198316 players198416 players198513 players198613 players19879 players19887 players19895 players19904 players19912 players19921 player19931 player
Above expectationBelow expectationLester WilliamsGM total +6.0Lester Williams by season -1.1

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.

'82'84'86'87037101301Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (6 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1982NE998
1983NE1512
1984NE701
1985NE932
1986LAC400
1987SEA200

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