NO draft credit
GM Mike Ditka
Team games38
Team starts38
On-team AV30
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-6.55 contribution16th of 16 picks for this GM
Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.
Ricky Williams
Drafted by NO · GM Mike Ditka · Texas
All NFL teams
Full-career context
These totals follow Ricky Williams across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.
Games played147
Games started83
Weighted career AV77
Pro Bowls1
AP1 All-Pro1
Career seasons13
Accountability by draft event
What each drafting team received
Long-career hit
Ricky Williams became a 13-season, 147-game NFL player after going #5. The retained-value model still ranks him 16th of 16 for Mike Ditka because NO only got 38 of those games.
His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -6.55. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Ditka'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
38
on drafting team · 147 full-career
Games started
38
on drafting team · 83 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
30
modeled; full weighted AV 77
AV / 1k snaps
—
snap-era only
AV-rate z
—
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
1 full-career
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
1 full-career · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only
Did this pick move Mike Ditka's grade?
The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Ditka pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Ricky Williams totals -6.55. 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 expectationRicky WilliamsGM total -8.6Ricky Williams by season -11.5
How much retained production did Ricky Williams return vs. his slot?
Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: RBs drafted within ±5 picks of Ricky Williams since 2010 (9 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.
Ricky WilliamsSlot-similar peers (9)
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 (13 scored seasons)
| Year | Team | GP | GS | Snaps | Snap-z | AV | AV/snap | PB | AP1 | AP2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | NO | 12 | 12 | — | — | 5 | — | |||
| 2000 | NO | 10 | 10 | — | — | 11 | — | |||
| 2001 | NO | 16 | 16 | — | — | 14 | — | |||
| 2002 | MIA | 16 | 16 | — | — | 19 | — | |||
| 2003 | MIA | 16 | 16 | — | — | 11 | — | |||
| 2004 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | — | |||
| 2005 | MIA | 12 | 3 | — | — | 6 | — | |||
| 2006 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | — | |||
| 2007 | MIA | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | — | |||
| 2008 | MIA | 16 | 3 | — | — | 7 | — | |||
| 2009 | MIA | 16 | 7 | — | — | 10 | — | |||
| 2010 | MIA | 16 | 0 | — | — | 4 | — | |||
| 2011 | BAL | 16 | 0 | — | — | 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.