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

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Bilal Nichols

Top 30% all-time pass rushersHigh-End Starter🌅 Early Bloomer · 2020

Height6'3"

Weight313 lb

BornSep 14, 1996

Age29

CollegeDelaware See College Stats

ConferenceColonial Athletic Association

Rookie yr2018

Draft2018 · Rd 5, Pick 145 · CHI

Archetype Intelligence

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A quality edge rusher with a top 30% among starters — a legitimate starter who contributed meaningfully across their career.

Career Value · VORP

VORP 59 · #1840 · Above Average

Worth 59 points of value above a freely-available replacement interior lineman — top 41% of all 4,642 ranked at the position. 5 of 7 seasons cleared the replacement bar, by +11.8 on average.See board →

Seasons above replacement

5 cleared

2 replaced

Beat replacement (adds to VORP) Below it — adds 0, never a debit

Replacement

the KC-H bar

→

Seasons over

cleared the bar

+11.8

Avg surplus

peak +20

5 seasons × ~11.8 surplus ≈ VORP 59

Combined Season Grid

The full season-by-season grids, joined on one timeline. Every selected stat family stays visible at once—no tab hopping.

3 grids split in one view

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Defense													Snap Counts						Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)
Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	Sfty	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	RateAll	ADOT	Prss	Hrry	QBKD	Bltz	MissTkl	Miss%
2018	—	CHI	13	—	28	20	8	5	7	3.0	15.0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	1.0%	328	36.4%	22	10.6%	1	1	1.0	79.2	-2.0	10	5	1	0	0	0.0
2019	—	CHI	12	—	26	14	12	1	2	0.0	3.0	0	1	0	1	0	0	—	0.0%	445	52.2%	40	14.1%	1	1	1.0	79.2	-3.0	4	2	2	0	2	0.1
2020	—	CHI	15	—	39	15	24	7	13	5.0	25.0	1	3	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	618	57.6%	76	16.9%	4	2	0.5	16.7	-3.5	16	3	7	0	3	0.1
2021	—	CHI	16	—	45	20	25	5	9	3.0	17.0	0	1	0	2	0	0	—	0.0%	678	64.0%	75	17.6%	2	2	1.0	141.7	2.5	12	3	5	0	0	0.0
2022	—	LV	17	—	36	8	28	4	11	1.5	16.5	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	804	72.1%	80	21.6%	0	0	—	—	—	14	3	9	0	1	0.0
2023	—	LV	16	—	42	19	23	4	2	1.5	7.5	0	1	0	1	1	0	—	0.0%	615	54.3%	73	17.9%	4	3	0.8	99.0	-3.0	3	0	1	0	3	0.1
2024	—	ARI	5	—	8	4	4	1	1	0.0	2.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	174	44.3%	19	19.3%	0	0	—	—	—	1	0	1	0	2	0.2
2025	—	ARI	3	—	3	0	3	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	60	24.0%	—	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career		—	97	—	227	100	127	27	45	14.0	86.0	1	6	2	5	1	0	1	1.0%	3,722	50.6%	385	16.9%	12	9	—	—	—	60	16	26	0	11	—

Defense

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	VAL
2018	22	CHI	13	0*	28	20	8	5	7	3.0	15.0	0	0	2	1	0	9
2019	23	CHI	12	7*	26	14	12	1	2	0.0	3.0	0	1	0	1	0	4.3
2020	24	CHI	15	9*	39	15	24	7	13	5.0	25.0	1	3	0	—	0	11.7
2021	25	CHI	16	11*	45	20	25	5	9	3.0	17.0	0	1	0	2	0	9.2
2022	26	LV	17	12*	36	8	28	4	11	1.5	16.5	0	0	0	—	0	9.2
2023	27	LV	16	9*	42	19	23	4	2	1.5	7.5	0	1	0	1	1	8.4
2024	28	ARI	5	0*	8	4	4	1	1	0.0	2.0	0	0	0	—	0	1.7
2025	29	ARI	3	0*	3	0	3	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	—
Career			97	48*	227	100	127	27	45	—	—	1	6	2	5	1	53.5

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Snap Counts

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2018	22	CHI	14	0*	1	1.0%	328	36.4%	22	10.6%
2019	23	CHI	13	7*	—	0.0%	445	52.2%	40	14.1%
2020	24	CHI	16	9*	—	0.0%	618	57.6%	76	16.9%
2021	25	CHI	17	11*	—	0.0%	678	64.0%	75	17.6%
2022	26	LV	17	12*	—	0.0%	804	72.1%	80	21.6%
2023	27	LV	17	9*	—	0.0%	615	54.3%	73	17.9%
2024	28	ARI	6	0*	—	0.0%	174	44.3%	19	19.3%
2025	29	ARI	4	0*	—	0.0%	60	24.0%	—	0.0%
Career			104	48*	1	—	3,722	—	385	—

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	RateAll	ADOT	Prss	Hrry	QBKD	MissTkl	Miss%
2018	22	CHI	14	0*	1	1	1.0	79.2	-2.0	10	5	1	0	0.0
2019	23	CHI	13	7*	1	1	1.0	79.2	-3.0	4	2	2	2	0.1
2020	24	CHI	16	9*	4	2	0.5	16.7	-3.5	16	3	7	3	0.1
2021	25	CHI	17	11*	2	2	1.0	141.7	2.5	12	3	5	0	0.0
2022	26	LV	17	12*	0	0	—	—	—	14	3	9	1	0.0
2023	27	LV	17	9*	4	3	0.8	99.0	-3.0	3	0	1	3	0.1
2024	28	ARI	6	0*	0	0	—	—	—	1	0	1	2	0.2
Career			100	48*	12	9	—	—	—	60	16	26	11	—

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

KV-H Anatomy

KV-H 58 · Strong Starter

A strong starter career by KV-H: a peak-driven profile that scores 58 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 7 scored seasons.

Sustained

career value

×.6

Peak

best 3 seasons

×.4

×1

Longevity

career length

Blend 57.8 × longevity 1 = KV-H 58· confidence 95%

What builds the career mark of 55

On-field 37.6

Availability 17.4

On-field production Staying available

Season-by-season quality (era-relative sacks/g)

2018bestavg 522024

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 7% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

7% of the all-time Sacks leader7

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: 95%.

Per-Snap Impact

Interior D-Line · proprietary · 2012+

Solid

SIS

Disruption / 100 snaps:2.552See leaderboard →

Disruption/1002.552Snap share50.6%Def snaps3,722VolatileCV 0.62

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within interior d-line, 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). Indigo = average defensive linemen aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2018

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

DL · 2018 class

4.95s

40-Yard

Strong · 77th pct

Pos 77thAll 23thClass Pos 83thClass All 21th

29 reps

Bench

Above avg · 63th pct

Pos 63thAll 89thClass Pos 50thClass All 93th

Postseason Career

1 playoff game

Defense

Tkl7Solo3Ast4

College Stats

DelawareCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Delaware), 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.

2018 Draft Class· this player went #145

#136Marquis HaynesLB #137Dalton SchultzTE #139R.J. McIntoshDT #140Maurice HurstDT #141Shaquem GriffinOLB #142D.J. ReedCB #143Ja'Whaun BentleyLB #144Justin WatsonWR #146Tre FlowersCB #147Micah KiserLB #148Marcus AllenLB #149Michael DicksonP #150Genard AveryDE #151Davontae HarrisCB #152Dane CruikshankDB #153Tyrell CrosbyG

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Bilal inherited the Chicago Bears DL room from Roy Robertson-Harris (2017–2020), and handed it to Robert Quinn (2020–2022).

William Perry 1985–1993Trace Armstrong 1989–1994Alonzo Spellman 1992–1997Albert Fontenot 1993–1996Jim Flanigan 1994–2000Mike Wells

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2025final season
Last recorded season with ARI
2024team change
Joined ARI (from LV)
2022team change
Joined LV (from CHI)
2018draft
Drafted by CHI — Round 5, Pick 145

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'3" / 313 lb

Frame

306 lb at 4.95s

Size-speed

29 reps

Bench power

Injury History

3 career games missed (Out)

From nflverse weekly injury reports · coverage begins 2009.

Season	Team	Games Out	Designations
2022	LV	0	W3Questionable· Shoulder
2021	CHI	0	W3Questionable· BackW7Questionable· Knee
2020	CHI	0	W16Questionable· Knee
2019	CHI	3	W1Questionable· KneeW2Questionable· KneeW3Out· HandW4Out· HandW5Out· HandW7Questionable· Hand / KneeW8Questionable· Knee
2018	CHI	0	W9Questionable· KneeW10Questionable· KneeW11Questionable· KneeW13Questionable· KneeW14Questionable· KneeW15Questionable· KneeW16Questionable· KneeW17Questionable· KneeW18Questionable· Knee

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 7-season peers. See all →

peak 62

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

C+2018

C2019

B2020

C+2021

C+2022

C+2023

F2024

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 8 seasons.

78%

Era Translator

Sacks 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 Sacks	Sacks/G	→ 2025 Sacks	→ 2025 /G
2018	3	0.2	4+1	0.2
2019	0	0	0	0
2020	5	0.3	6+1	0.3
2021	3	0.2	3	0.2
2022	1.5	0.1	2+0.5	0.1
2023	1.5	0.1	2+0.5	0.1
2024	0	0	0	0

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 6/18/2026

Career Value · VORP

59 career value over replacement — #1840 all-time of 4,642. 8.4/season above a replacement-level DL.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #145 (Rd 5) · CHI · 2018 · +25 vs expected KV-H

58actual

33 expected · Δ+25

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Career Value · VORP

Combined Season Grid

Defense

Snap Counts

Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)

KV-H Anatomy

All-Time Standing

Per-Snap Impact

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2018

Postseason Career

Defense

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

2018 Draft Class· this player went #145

Franchise Succession

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Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Injury History

Knox

Era Translator

Career Geography