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

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Brandon Flowers

1× Pro BowlTop 11% all-time defensive backsElite Playmaker🌅 Early Bloomer · 2009 Team Carrier · #271

Height5'9"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

122 career value over replacement — #876 all-time of 4,695. 13.6/season above a replacement-level CB.

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #35 (Rd 2) · KC · 2008 · +13.2 vs expected KV-H

68actual

54.8 expected · Δ+13.2

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #271 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 KC·4 team wins#15

Interceptions · 5 · score 33

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 26% of the all-time Interceptions leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

26% of the all-time Interceptions leader26

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: 90%.

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

Defensive Backs · proprietary · 2012+

Above average

SIS

Disruption / 100 snaps:1.895See leaderboard →

Disruption/1001.895Snap share90.2%Def snaps2,639ReliableCV 0.40

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within defensive backs, 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 backs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2008

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

DB · 2008 class

4.55s

40-Yard

Below avg · 31th pct

Pos 31thAll 70thClass Pos 26thClass All 66th

30"

Vertical

Low · 1th pct

Pos 1thAll 23thClass Pos 8thClass All 47th

117"

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

2 playoff games

Defense

Tkl6Solo5Ast1Int1PD3

College Stats

Virginia TechCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Virginia Tech), 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

Dustin ColquittP6y Derrick JohnsonLB6y Tamba HaliOLB6y Dwayne BoweWR6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Brandon inherited the Kansas City Chiefs DB room from Greg Wesley (2000–2007), and handed it to Eric Berry (2010–2018).

Emmitt Thomas 1967–1978Kerry Reardon 1973–1976Gary Barbaro 1976–1982Gary Green 1977–1983Eric Harris 1980–1982Deron Cherry

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

Movementderived from season history

2016final season
Last recorded season with SD
2014team change
Joined SD (from KC)
2008draft
Drafted by KC — Round 2, Pick 35

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'9" / 187 lb

Frame

189 lb at 4.55s

Size-speed

30" vert / 117" broad

Explosion

14 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 9-season peers. See all →

peak 76

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

C+2008

A2009

B2010

B+2011

B2012

C+2013

B2014

D2015

C2016

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 9 seasons.

83%

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
2008	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2009	5	0.3	5	0.3
2010	2	0.1	1-1	0.1
2011	4	0.3	3-1	0.2
2012	3	0.2	2-1	0.1
2013	1	0.1	0-1	0
2014	3	0.2	3	0.2
2015	0	0	0	0
2016	1	0.2	2+1	0.1

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 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.