Antoine Winfield is a career quality starter — a defensive back whose body of work places Winfield in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Winfield's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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#90Career resurrectionsof 100

CBMIN#26ACT

Antoine Winfield

3× Pro BowlTop 14% all-time defensive backsIron ManTeam Carrier · #519

Height5'9"

Weight180 lb

Born

Career Value · VORP

128 career value over replacement — #810 all-time of 4,695. 9.1/season above a replacement-level CB.

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #23 (Rd 1) · BUF · 1999 · +9.7 vs expected KV-H

66actual

56.3 expected · Δ+9.7

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #519 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

2006 MIN·6 team wins#21

Interceptions · 4 · score 5

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 33% of the all-time Interceptions leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

33% of the all-time Interceptions leader33

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: 89%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 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)Not available for this player

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

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

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.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

Postseason Career

7 playoff games

Defense

Tkl35Solo25Ast10Sk1.0Dis1.0Int2PD4FF1

College Stats

Ohio StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Ohio State), 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

Pat WilliamsDT11y Kevin WilliamsDT9y E.J. HendersonMLB8y Jimmy KleinsasserTE8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Antoine inherited the Minnesota Vikings DB room from Orlando Thomas (1995–2001), and handed it to Darren Sharper (2005–2008).

Paul Krause 1968–1979John Turner 1978–1987Joey Browner 1983–1991Carl Lee 1983–1993Audray McMillian 1989–1993Orlando Thomas

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

Movementderived from season history

2012final season
Last recorded season with MIN
2004team change
Joined MIN (from BUF)
1999draft
Drafted by BUF — Round 1, Pick 23

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'9" / 180 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 14-season peers. See all →

peak 71

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

C+1999

C+2000

C+2001

C2002

C+2003

B2004

B+2005

B+2006

C+2007

B2008

C+2009

B2010

D2011

B2012

Era Translator

INT 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 INT	INT/G	→ 2025 INT	→ 2025 /G
1999	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2000	1	0.1	1	0
2001	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2002	0	0	0	0
2003	1	0.1	0-1	0
2004	3	0.2	2-1	0.1
2005	4	0.3	3-1	0.2
2006	4	0.3	3-1	0.2
2007	1	0.1	1	0.1
2008	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2009	1	0.1	1	0.1
2010	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2011	1	0.2	2+1	0.1
2012	3	0.2	2-1	0.1

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

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.