Aaron Donald is one of the most decorated pass rushers in NFL history — a near-certain Hall of Famer with a 95% enshrinement probability. one of the highest career value scores of 97 places Donald in the top 1% of all pass rushers who ever played.

On the boards· Appears on 9 boards

Streaks5 straight · 10 sacks · 2017–21

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Aaron Donald

10× Pro Bowl8× All-ProTop 0% all-time pass rushersFranchise Cornerstone🌅 Early Bloomer · 2018 Team Carrier · #439

Height

Career Value · VORP

292 career value over replacement — #149 all-time of 4,695. 36.5/season above a replacement-level EDGE.

Career Profile

Led league 1×4 top-10

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #13 (Rd 1) · LA · 2014 · +35.5 vs expected KV-H

97actual

61.5 expected · Δ+35.5

💔+52.2 stolen VORP·1.43 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #439 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

1 qualifying season

2016 LAR·4 team wins#22

Sacks · 8 · score 12

All-Time Standing

how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position

Solid

of 100

Reached 46% of the all-time Sacks leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

46% of the all-time Sacks leader46

1 category ≥25% of the all-time leader33

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leader at this position. Built only from visible encyclopedia data — career production vs. the all-time leader, plus efficiency (EPA) and comparable-player confidence — so it's a transparent context score, not a subjective rating. Tiers: Elite ≥ 85 · Strong ≥ 65 · Solid ≥ 45 · Depth < 45. Comparable-player confidence: 90%.

Encyclopedia Coverage7/8 data layers

StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.

Bio & DraftBirth date, height/weight, draft round/pick, college — sourced from nflverse players.csv (CC-BY 4.0). Covers all NFL eras.

Season Stats (1999–present)Week-by-week box scores aggregated to season totals: passing, rushing, receiving, defense. Source: nflverse player_stats. Counting stats are exact; rates are derived.

Advanced (EPA, 1999–present)Not available for this player

Snap Counts (2012–present)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

Where this data comes from

Modern-era stats (1999+) come from nflverse's open data releases. Pre-1999 seasons are backfilled additively from Wikipedia and NFL.com's own official season pages — never from rights-restricted sources.

nflverse — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution
NFL.com — Official league site; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Per-Snap Impact

Edge Rushers · proprietary · 2012+

Elite

SIS

Disruption / 100 snaps:6.898See leaderboard →

Disruption/1006.898Snap share81.6%Def snaps6,959VolatileCV 0.60

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within edge rushers, shrinkage-regularized so small samples don't spike, over the NFL snap-count era (2012+).

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). = average edge rushers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2014

Percentiles compare each raw measurement against position peers, the full combine pool, and the same draft class where enough samples exist.

EDGE · 2014 class

4.68s

40-Yard

Above avg · 72th pct

Pos 72thAll 49thClass Pos 80thClass All 52th

32"

Vertical

Below avg · 34th pct

Pos 34thAll 37thClass Pos 36thClass All 40th

116"

Broad Jump

Understanding These Stats

Defense

Tkl / Solo / Ast — Combined tackles (Solo + ½ Assist). Solo = unassisted. Ast = helped by a teammate.

TFL — Tackles for loss — stops made behind the line of scrimmage (run stuffs + QB contain).

QBHits — QB hits — any legal contact on the quarterback, including but beyond sacks (hurries that land).

Sk — Sacks — tackled the QB behind the line for a loss. Half-sacks shared between defenders.

Dis — Disruption plays = sacks + QB hits + TFL. The composite pass-rush / run-stop impact stat for one season. Elite pass rushers post 30+ disruption plays per season.

Int — Interceptions caught by this defender.

PD — Passes defended — deflections and breakups.

FF / FR — Forced fumbles (stripped or jarred loose). Fumble Recoveries.

TD — Defensive touchdowns — picks, fumble returns, safeties returned.

Sfty — Safeties — tackled the ball carrier in their own end zone.

Snap Counts (2012–present)

Postseason Career

11 playoff games

Defense

Tkl33Solo18Ast15TFL10QBHits17Sk6.0Dis33.0PD1

College Stats

PittsburghCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Pittsburgh), but no parsed college box-score table is present in this profile artifact. The section stays here so every profile has a consistent college-stats landing point without fabricating unavailable rows.

Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Rob HavensteinOT9y Tyler HigbeeTE9y Johnny HekkerP8y Jake McQuaideLS7y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Aaron inherited the Los Angeles Rams DL room from Robert Quinn (2011–2017), and handed it to Leonard Floyd (2020–2022).

Gary Jeter 1983–1988Fred Stokes 1987–1995D'Marco Farr 1994–2000Kevin Carter 1995–2000Grant Wistrom 1998–2003Leonard Little

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Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).

Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with LAR
2016team change
Joined LAR (from STL)
2014draft
Drafted by LA — Round 1, Pick 13
2014team change
Joined STL (from LA)

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 285 lb

Frame

285 lb at 4.68s

Size-speed

32" vert / 116" broad

Explosion

35 reps

Bench power

Knox

StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →

Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 8-season peers. See all →

peak 97

Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season

B+2016

A+2017

A+2018

A+2019

A+2020

A+2021

B+2022

B+2023

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 11 seasons.

87%

Era Translator

Sacks translated to the 2025 NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Sacks	Sacks/G	→ 2025 Sacks	→ 2025 /G
2016	8	0.5	8	0.5
2017	11	0.8	12+1	0.7
2018	20.5	1.3	20-0.5	1.2
2019	12.5	0.8	13+0.5	0.7
2020	13.5	0.9	15+1.5	0.9
2021	12.5	0.7	12-0.5	0.7
2022	5	0.5	8+3	0.5
2023	8	0.5	9+1	0.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/15/2026

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

KV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — Era-normalized career rating 0–100 within position group, calibrated so a 50 = average starter and 90+ = all-time great. Covers 1999–present. Built on a 5-year IQR/robust-std era window.

SIS (Snap Impact Score) — Per-snap production z-scored within position group and era (2012+). Measures how much a player produced per opportunity, not raw volume.

VORP (Value Over Replacement) — Sum of max(0, season KV-H − positional replacement level) across a career. Measures career value above the minimum-roster baseline at each position.

Durability IQ — 0–100 score reflecting how many games a player played relative to peers at the same position in the same era. Adjusts for injury-shortened seasons.

Canton Monitor · HOF

Calibrated Hall-of-Fame probability — fit against actual enshrinement. See all →

95%

Active · Lock pace

What carries the case

All-Pro 50%Era Quality (KV-H) 24%Pro Bowls 15.6%Longevity 7.8%League Leads 2.1%All-Time Ranks 0.5%

Monitor score 192.1 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity84

Peak97

Accolades100

Consistency50

Per-Snap93

On the boards· Appears on 9 boards

Aaron Donald

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Per-Snap Impact

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2014

Postseason Career

Defense

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

2014 Draft Class· this player went #13