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Damien Woody

Drafted by NE · GM Bobby Grier · Boston Col.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played173
Games started166
Weighted career AV59
Pro Bowls1
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons12

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1999 · Round 1 · #17

NE draft credit

GM Bobby Grier

Team games78
Team starts76
On-team AV39
On-team PB / AP11 / 0
Terrible-1.57 contribution25th of 27 picks for this GM

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

Long-career hit

Damien Woody became a 12-season, 173-game NFL player after going #17. The retained-value model still ranks him 25th of 27 for Bobby Grier because NE only got 78 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.57. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Bobby Grier'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
78
on drafting team · 173 full-career
Games started
76
on drafting team · 166 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
39
modeled; full weighted AV 59
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
1
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 Bobby Grier's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Bobby Grier pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Damien Woody totals -1.57. 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

-2-1054. Rutledge#54 · Rod Rutledge · aggregate +0.55227. Bishop#227 · Michael Bishop · aggregate +0.4989. Carter#89 · Chris Carter · aggregate +0.33159. Crawford#159 · Vernon Crawford · aggregate +0.26176. Shaw#176 · Harold Shaw · aggregate +0.2546. Faulk#46 · Kevin Faulk · aggregate +0.2159. Mitchell#59 · Brandon Mitchell · aggregate +0.1791. George#91 · Tony George · aggregate +0.0452. Simmons#52 · Tony Simmons · aggregate +0.02211. Andersen#211 · Jason Andersen · aggregate -0.02192. Gaiter#192 · Tony Gaiter · aggregate -0.10180. Washington#180 · Marcus Washington · aggregate -0.1181. Floyd#81 · Chris Floyd · aggregate -0.13115. Rheams#115 · Leonta Rheams · aggregate -0.2897. Denson#97 · Damon Denson · aggregate -0.37145. Merkerson#145 · Ron Merkerson · aggregate -0.4429. Canty#29 · Chris Canty · aggregate -0.4561. Shaw#61 · Sedrick Shaw · aggregate -0.5522. Jones#22 · Tebucky Jones · aggregate -0.5628. Katzenmoyer#28 · Andy Katzenmoyer · aggregate -0.6418. Edwards#18 · Robert Edwards · aggregate -0.72230. Rehberg#230 · Scott Rehberg · aggregate -0.80154. Fletcher#154 · Derrick Fletcher · aggregate -1.08125. Ellis#125 · Ed Ellis · aggregate -1.0917. Woody#17 · Damien Woody · aggregate -1.57Woody -1.683. Spires#83 · Greg Spires · aggregate -1.79241. Morey#241 · Sean Morey · aggregate -2.41Morey -2.4

Incremental contribution by season

-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+11997 · Chris Carter · incremental +0.091997 · Vernon Crawford · incremental +0.201997 · Damon Denson · incremental -0.041997 · Brandon Mitchell · incremental -0.081997 · Sedrick Shaw · incremental -0.081997 · Ed Ellis · incremental -0.131997 · Chris Canty · incremental -0.211997 · Tony Gaiter · incremental -0.221997 · Scott Rehberg · incremental -1.151998 · Brandon Mitchell · incremental +0.031998 · Vernon Crawford · incremental +0.141998 · Chris Carter · incremental +0.141998 · Harold Shaw · incremental +0.181998 · Rod Rutledge · incremental +0.211998 · Tony Simmons · incremental -0.081998 · Scott Rehberg · incremental -0.121998 · Jason Andersen · incremental -0.141998 · Chris Floyd · incremental -0.261998 · Tebucky Jones · incremental -0.331998 · Chris Canty · incremental -0.481998 · Leonta Rheams · incremental -0.511998 · Damon Denson · incremental -0.551998 · Ed Ellis · incremental -0.721998 · Ron Merkerson · incremental -0.761998 · Sedrick Shaw · incremental -0.811998 · Greg Spires · incremental -1.091998 · Robert Edwards · incremental -1.201999 · Jason Andersen · incremental +0.061999 · Tony Simmons · incremental +0.071999 · Harold Shaw · incremental +0.111999 · Chris Floyd · incremental +0.121999 · Vernon Crawford · incremental +0.131999 · Brandon Mitchell · incremental +0.141999 · Rod Rutledge · incremental +0.211999 · Chris Carter · incremental +0.251999 · Michael Bishop · incremental +0.491999 · Tebucky Jones · incremental -0.021999 · Damon Denson · incremental -0.031999 · Derrick Fletcher · incremental -0.051999 · Tony George · incremental -0.111999 · Marcus Washington · incremental -0.291999 · Greg Spires · incremental -0.301999 · Andy Katzenmoyer · incremental -0.751999 · Ed Ellis · incremental -0.911999 · Damien Woody · incremental -1.241999 · Kevin Faulk · incremental -2.181999 · Sean Morey · incremental -3.722000 · Tony Simmons · incremental +0.042000 · Jason Andersen · incremental +0.042000 · Brandon Mitchell · incremental +0.092000 · Chris Floyd · incremental +0.102000 · Tony George · incremental +0.122000 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.132000 · Harold Shaw · incremental +0.222000 · Michael Bishop · incremental +0.272000 · Rod Rutledge · incremental +0.332000 · Tebucky Jones · incremental -0.102000 · Damien Woody · incremental -0.242000 · Andy Katzenmoyer · incremental -0.252000 · Greg Spires · incremental -1.362000 · Derrick Fletcher · incremental -1.692001 · Brandon Mitchell · incremental +0.122001 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.172001 · Rod Rutledge · incremental +0.372001 · Tebucky Jones · incremental -0.132001 · Damien Woody · incremental -0.262002 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.242002 · Tebucky Jones · incremental -0.152002 · Damien Woody · incremental -0.602003 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.132003 · Damien Woody · incremental -0.232004 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.152005 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.102006 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.192007 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.142008 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.232009 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.122010 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.002011 · Kevin Faulk · incremental +0.03Woody -1.2Faulk -2.2Morey -3.7Woody -0.2Fletcher -1.7Woody -0.3Woody -0.6Woody -0.219979 players199818 players199920 players200014 players20015 players20023 players20032 players20041 player20051 player20061 player20071 player20081 player20091 player20101 player20111 player
Above expectationBelow expectationDamien WoodyGM total -10.8Damien Woody by season -2.6

How much retained production did Damien Woody return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: Cs drafted within ±5 picks of Damien Woody since 2010 (6 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.

-1.5-1-0.50+0.5+1Model value above slot18. PounceyMaurkice Pouncey · model value +1.220. RagnowFrank Ragnow · model value +0.918. KellyRyan Kelly · model value +0.318. BradburyGarrett Bradbury · model value -0.217. WoodyDamien Woody · model value -0.6-0.621. PriceBilly Price · model value -0.619. ErvingCameron Erving · model value -1.5
Damien WoodySlot-similar peers (6)

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.

'00'02'04'06'08'100428312516601Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (12 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1999NE16167
2000NE16166
2001NE16158
2002NE161511
2003NE14147
2004DET16166
2005DET16166
2006DET552
2007DET1384
2008NYJ16168
2009NYJ16166
2010NYJ13135

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