← 1997 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R4 · #99 OVERALL · QB

Danny Wuerffel

Drafted by NO · GM Mike Ditka · Florida

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played25
Games started10
Weighted career AV6
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons6

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1997 · Round 4 · #99

NO draft credit

GM Mike Ditka

Team games16
Team starts6
On-team AV4
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.00 contribution7th of 16 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Danny Wuerffel was Mike Ditka's 7th-best of 16 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.00. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Ditka'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
16
on drafting team · 25 full-career
Games started
6
on drafting team · 10 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
4
modeled; full weighted AV 6
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 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. Danny Wuerffel totals +0.00. 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

-6-5-4-3-2-10+1116. Poole#116 · Keith Poole · aggregate +1.1197. Weary#97 · Fred Weary · aggregate +0.76161. Bordano#161 · Chris Bordano · aggregate +0.557. Turley#7 · Kyle Turley · aggregate +0.1133. Kelly#33 · Rob Kelly · aggregate +0.0862. Davis#62 · Troy Davis · aggregate +0.0799. Wuerffel#99 · Danny Wuerffel · aggregate +0.00Wuerffel +0.0132. Perry#132 · Wilmont Perry · aggregate -0.02165. Savoie#165 · Nick Savoie · aggregate -0.0339. Tomich#39 · Jared Tomich · aggregate -0.04204. McCullough#204 · Andy McCullough · aggregate -0.0899. Pittman#99 · Julian Pittman · aggregate -0.43239. Warner#239 · Ron Warner · aggregate -0.6440. Cleeland#40 · Cam Cleeland · aggregate -0.9110. Naeole#10 · Chris Naeole · aggregate -2.61Naeole -2.65. Williams#5 · Ricky Williams · aggregate -6.55Williams -6.5

Incremental contribution by season

-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+21997 · Jared Tomich · incremental +0.011997 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.031997 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.051997 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.061997 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental -0.021997 · Nick Savoie · incremental -0.261997 · Chris Naeole · incremental -2.081998 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental +0.001998 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.091998 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.101998 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.171998 · Chris Bordano · incremental +0.361998 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.451998 · Wilmont Perry · incremental -0.051998 · Jared Tomich · incremental -0.051998 · Andy McCullough · incremental -0.191998 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.511998 · Julian Pittman · incremental -0.761998 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.871998 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.951998 · Ron Warner · incremental -1.071999 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental +0.001999 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.121999 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.441999 · Chris Bordano · incremental +0.531999 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.781999 · Rob Kelly · incremental -0.001999 · Wilmont Perry · incremental -0.001999 · Jared Tomich · incremental -0.021999 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.041999 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.321999 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.491999 · Ricky Williams · incremental -7.882000 · Jared Tomich · incremental +0.092000 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.122000 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.412000 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.422000 · Kyle Turley · incremental +1.422000 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.542000 · Ricky Williams · incremental -1.472001 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.192001 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.042001 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.242001 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.582001 · Ricky Williams · incremental -2.162002 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.04Wuerffel -0.0Naeole -2.1Wuerffel +0.0Wuerffel +0.0Williams -7.9Williams -2.219977 players199814 players199912 players20007 players20015 players20021 player
Above expectationBelow expectationDanny WuerffelGM total -8.6Danny Wuerffel by season -0.0

How much retained production did Danny Wuerffel 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 Danny Wuerffel since 2010 (9 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+2.8103. PettyBryce Petty · model value +0.294. GabrielDillon Gabriel · model value +0.1102. CousinsKirk Cousins · model value 099. WuerffelDanny Wuerffel · model value 00104. BeathardC.J. Beathard · model value -0.1104. FinleyRyan Finley · model value -0.2100. CookConnor Cook · model value -0.294. CorralMatt Corral · model value -0.2100. GrierWill Grier · model value -0.298. BarkleyMatt Barkley · model value -1.3
Danny WuerffelSlot-similar peers (9)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.

'98'00'0203581001Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (6 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1997NO721
1998NO542
1999NO401
2000GB100
2001CHI100
2002WAS742

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