Andre Royal is a career quality starter — a linebacker whose body of work places Royal in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Royal's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Andre Royal
Top 29% all-time linebackersHigh-End Starter
A quality linebacker with a top 30% among starters — a legitimate starter who contributed meaningfully across their career.
Career Value · VORP
VORP 35 · #2482 · Role PlayerWorth 35 points of value above a freely-available replacement linebacker — top 54% of all 4,642 ranked at the position. 3 of 4 seasons cleared the replacement bar, by +11.7 on average.See board →
Seasons above replacement
3 cleared
1 replaced
Beat replacement (adds to VORP) Below it — adds 0, never a debit
47
Replacement
the KC-H bar
→
3
Seasons over
cleared the bar
×
+11.7
Avg surplus
peak +17
3 seasons × ~11.7 surplus ≈ VORP 35
Combined Season Grid
The full season-by-season grids, joined on one timeline. Every selected stat family stays visible at once—no tab hopping.
1 grid split in one view
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | |||||
| 1995 | — | CAR | 12 | — | 17 | 16 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1996 | — | CAR | 16 | — | 26 | 19 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 1997 | — | CAR | 16 | — | 72 | 59 | — | — | — | 5.0 | 5.0 | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 1998 | — | IND | 13 | — | 51 | 37 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1999 | — | IND | 3 | — | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 60 | — | 174 | 137 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Defense
KV-H Anatomy
KV-H 53 · SolidA solid career by KV-H: a well-rounded profile that scores 53 of 100, era-normalized against tackles/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
56
Sustained
career value
×.6
59
Peak
best 3 seasons
×.4
×0.93
Longevity
career length
Blend 57.2 × longevity 0.93 = KV-H 53· confidence 100%
What builds the career mark of 56
On-field 38
Availability 18
On-field production Staying available
Season-by-season quality (era-relative tackles/g)
1995bestavg 561998
All-Time Standing
how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position3
Depth
of 100
Reached 3% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.
3% of the all-time Sacks leader3
0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0
A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leaderat 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: 88%.
Career Aging Trajectory
vs. position group average · KV-H basisAmber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average linebackers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).
College stats are not imported for this profile yet.
StatVault has the verified college attribution (Alabama), 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
Tyrone PooleDB5yShawn KingDE4yScott GreeneRB4yJohn KasayK3yKerry CollinsQB3yMark CarrierWR3ySam MillsLB3yPeyton ManningQB2yMuhsin MuhammadWR2yWesley WallsTE2yMarvin HarrisonWR2yDwight StoneWR2yEric DavisFS2ySteve BeuerleinQB2yKen DilgerTE2yJason BelserFS2yMarcus PollardTE2yToi CookDB2yEllis JohnsonDE2yJeff BurrisCB2yRaghib IsmailWR2yBertrand BerryOLB2yWillie GreenWR2yBernard WhittingtonDE2y
Franchise Succession
the room, before and afterAndre opened the Carolina Panthers LB lineage the corpus knows, and handed it to Micheal Barrow (1997–1999).
Similar Players
Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).
Movementderived from season history
- 1999final season
Last recorded season with IND
- 1998team change
Joined IND (from CAR)
- 1995signing
Entered the NFL with CAR
Athletic & Unique Profile
verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts6'2" / 220 lb
Frame
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 4-season peers. See all →
53
peak 59
Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season
C1995
C+1996
B1997
C+1998
Availability
Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 5 seasons.
75%
Era Translator
Tackles translated to the 2025NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.
| Season | Actual Tackles | Tackles/G | → 2025 Tackles | → 2025 /G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 17 | 1.4 | 27+10 | 1.6 |
| 1996 | 26 | 1.6 | 36+10 | 2.1 |
| 1997 | 72 | 4.5 | 76+4 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 51 | 3.9 | 66+15 | 3.9 |
Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 6/18/2026
Career Value · VORP
35 career value over replacement — #2482 all-time of 4,642. 8.8/season above a replacement-level LB.
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