Ben Roethlisberger is one of the most consistent quarterbacks of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Roethlisberger delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

On the boards· Appears on 7 boards

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Ben Roethlisberger

6× Pro BowlTop 3% all-time QBsIron Legend👑 #1 Quarterback · 2018 ⚡ Breakout · 2020 📈 Late Developer · 2018

Career Value · VORP

516 career value over replacement — #14 all-time of 4,695. 30.4/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

Led league 2×15 top-10 Compiler22% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.19

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #11 (Rd 1) · PIT · 2004 · +15.5 vs expected KV-H

77actual

61.5 expected · Δ+15.5

💔+76.6 stolen VORP·2.52 szns lost

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All-Time Standing

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

Strong

of 100

Reached 72% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a strong all-time profile at the position.

72% of the all-time Passing Yards leader72

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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 Coverage6/8 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.

Defensive StatsNot available for this player

College StatsCollege attribution is present, but this profile artifact does not yet carry a parsed college stat table.

NFL Combine / Pro Day40-yard dash, vertical, broad jump, 3-cone, shuttle, bench press. Source: nflverse combine.csv.

Proprietary LayersKV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — era-normalized career rating 0–100 calibrated within position group (1999+ coverage). SIS (Snap Impact Score, 2012+) — per-snap production z-scored within position. VORP — value over replacement player. Durability IQ — games-played percentile adjusted for era.

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

Combine · 2004

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

QB · 2004 class

4.75s

40-Yard

Above avg · 64th pct

Pos 64thAll 41thClass Pos 78thClass All 43th

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Passer Rating: 93.5 regular season → 86.7 playoffs (12 playoff seasons)

-7%

vs reg season

Career Milestones16

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

20041K career passing yards
20055K career passing yards
200525 career passing TDs
200650 career passing TDs
200710K career passing yards
2008100 career passing TDs
2010

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Postseason Career

23 playoff games

Passing

Cmp498Att788Cmp%63.2%Yds5,972TD36Int28TD%4.6Int%3.6Y/A7.6

College Stats

Miami (Ohio)College listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Miami (Ohio)), 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

James HarrisonOLB13y Cameron HeywardDE11y Heath MillerTE11y Ike TaylorCB11y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Ben inherited the Pittsburgh Steelers QB room from Kordell Stewart (1995–2002), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Bobby Layne 1958–1962Terry Bradshaw 1970–1983Mark Malone 1980–1987Bubby Brister 1986–1992Neil O'Donnell 1991–1995Kordell Stewart 1995–2002

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2021final season
Last recorded season with PIT
2004draft
Drafted by PIT — Round 1, Pick 11

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'5" / 240 lb

Frame

241 lb at 4.75s

Size-speed

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 17-season peers. See all →

peak 81

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

C+2004

C+2005

B2006

B2007

B2008

B+2009

B2010

B+2011

B2012

B2013

B+2014

B+2015

B2016

B2017

A2018

B2020

C+2021

Availability

Era Translator

Pass Yds 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 Pass Yds	Pass Yds/G	→ 2025 Pass Yds	→ 2025 /G
2004	2,621	187.2	3,471+850	204.2
2005	2,385	198.8	3,666+1,281	215.6
2006	3,528	235.2	4,127+599	242.8
2007	3,154	210.3	3,812+658	224.2
2008	3,314	207.1	3,713+399	218.4
2009	4,328	288.5	4,680+352	275.3
2010	3,200	266.7	4,347+1,147	255.7
2011	4,077	271.8	4,356+279	256.2
2012	3,265	251.2	4,044+779	237.9
2013	4,261	266.3	4,134-127	243.2
2014	4,952	309.5	4,765-187	280.3
2015	3,938	328.2	5,008+1,070	294.6
2016	3,819	272.8	4,108+289	241.6
2017	4,259	283.9	4,311+52	253.6
2018	5,129	320.6	4,831-298	284.2
2020	3,803	253.5	3,949+146	232.3
2021	3,740	233.8	3,743+3	220.2

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:injuries, nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

Rushing

Att — Rushing attempts (carries).

Yds — Rushing yards.

TD — Rushing touchdowns.

Y/A — Yards per carry — rushing yards ÷ carries. The core rushing efficiency rate; 4.5+ is solid, 5+ is elite.

TD% — Touchdown rate per carry (TDs ÷ carries × 100) — measures scoring efficiency per touch independent of volume. Red-zone workhorses lead here.

1D — First downs gained on rushing plays.

1D% — First-down conversion rate (first downs ÷ carries × 100) — how often a carry moves the chains. Top RBs convert on 25%+ of attempts.

Fmb — Rushing fumbles lost — the key ball-security stat for running backs. Below 1 per season is elite.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

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 →

56%

On the Bubble

What carries the case

Longevity 29.7%Era Quality (KV-H) 28.2%Pro Bowls 22.3%League Leads 9.9%All-Time Ranks 9.9%

Monitor score 80.8 · 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

Longevity90

Peak81

Accolades22

Consistency81

Per-Snap50

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Ben Roethlisberger

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2004

Postseason Career

Passing

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

Rushing

2004 Draft Class· this player went #11

Career Geography