Andre Carter ranks in the all-time elite tier for pass rushers — a career that places Carter in the top 5% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Carter a career score of 81, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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Andre Carter

1× Pro Bowl👑 Dynasty DNA · 11 seasons · 2 titles Top 5% all-time pass rushersIron Legend🌅 Early Bloomer · 2002 Team Carrier · #173

Career Value · VORP

256 career value over replacement — #213 all-time of 4,695. 19.7/season above a replacement-level EDGE.

Career Profile

2 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #7 (Rd 1) · SF · 2001 · +17.7 vs expected KV-H

81actual

63.3 expected · Δ+17.7

💔+43.5 stolen VORP·2.21 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #173 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

2009 WAS·4 team wins#8

Sacks · 11 · score 54

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 40% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

40% of the all-time Sacks leader40

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: 94%.

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

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Per-Snap Impact

Edge Rushers · proprietary · 2012+

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below snap floor

Disruption / 100 snaps:8.387See leaderboard →

Disruption/1008.387Snap share24.3%Def snaps155Emerging

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

Combine · 2001

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

EDGE · 2001 class

4.84s

40-Yard

Below avg · 36th pct

Pos 36thAll 33thClass Pos 48thClass All 40th

38.5"

Vertical

Elite · 92th pct

Pos 92thAll 90thClass Pos 85thClass All 84th

132"

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

4 playoff games

Defense

Tkl9Solo4Ast5TFL3Dis3.0

Snap Counts

Def39Def%28.5%ST10

College Stats

CaliforniaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (California), 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

Bryant YoungDT5y Santana MossWR5y Derek M. SmithILB5y Julian PetersonOLB5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Andre inherited the San Francisco 49ers DL room from Roy Barker (1996–1998), and handed it to Justin Smith (2008–2014).

Fred Dean 1981–1985Dwaine Board 1981–1987Jeff Stover 1982–1988Charles Haley 1986–1999Pierce Holt 1988–1992Dennis Brown

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

Movementderived from season history

2013team change
Joined NE (from OAK)
2013final season
Last recorded season with NE
2012team change
Joined OAK (from NE)
2011team change
Joined NE (from WAS)
2006team change
Joined WAS (from SF)
2001draft
Drafted by SF — Round 1, Pick 7

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'4" / 260 lb

Frame

249 lb at 4.84s

Size-speed

38.5" vert / 132" broad

Explosion

20 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 13-season peers. See all →

peak 91

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

B+2001

A+2002

B+2003

D2004

B2005

B+2006

A2007

B2008

A+2009

C+2010

A2011

C+2012

D2013

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
2001	6.5	0.5	7+0.5	0.4
2002	12.5	0.8	13+0.5	0.8
2003	6.5	0.4	7+0.5	0.4
2004	1.5	0.3	4+2.5	0.2
2005	4.5	0.3	5+0.5	0.3
2006	6	0.4	6	0.4
2007	10.5	0.7	11+0.5	0.6
2008	4	0.3	4	0.2
2009	11	0.7	12+1	0.7
2010	2.5	0.2	3+0.5	0.2
2011	10	0.8	12+2	0.7
2012	2.5	0.3	4+1.5	0.2
2013	2	0.4	6+4	0.4

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.