Brandon Johnson is a career quality starter — a linebacker whose body of work places Johnson in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Johnson's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Career Value · VORP
17 career value over replacement — #3277 all-time of 4,695. 4.3/season above a replacement-level LB.
Pick #142 (Rd 5) · ARI · 2006 · +17.5 vs expected KV-H
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Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | |||||
| 2006 | 23 | ARI | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 25 | CIN | 15 | — | 63 | 28 | 35 | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 10.5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 26 | CIN | 13 | — | 47 | 31 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 1.5 | 7.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 27 | CIN | 14 | — | 28 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 28 | CIN | 9 | — | 25 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 29 | PIT | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 55 | — | 164 | 86 | 78 | 10 | 13 | 3.5 | 26.5 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
4 seasons · peak 3.3 in 2008
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NFL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.3 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2008 · +0.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NFL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
Source: nflverse (CC-BY 4.0) · 2016–2026 · 2 games
Folded from the per-game logs on file. Home/away, result, month and division come from the NFL schedule feed; where a game has no schedule row those dimensions leave it out rather than guess, and the count is shown.
| Home / Away | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 10 | 29 | 17 | 221 | 3 | 42.1 |
| Away | 7 | 16 | 9 | 114 | 2 | 23.4 |
A solid career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 48 of 100, era-normalized against tackles/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 51.8 × longevity 0.93 = KV-H 48· confidence 100%
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87% match
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#390 of 967 all-time linebackers by KV-H
| Wins / Losses | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins | 4 | 11 | 8 | 61 | 1 | 12.1 |
| Losses | 13 | 34 | 18 | 274 | 4 | 53.4 |
| Regular season / Postseason | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular season | 17 | 45 | 26 | 335 | 5 | 65.5 |
| By opponent | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs ARI | 1 | 4 | 3 | 30 | — | 3 |
| vs CAR | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 7 |
| vs CHI | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6.4 |
| vs DAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | — | 0.9 |
| vs DET | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| vs KC | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| vs LAC | 1 | 6 | 4 | 27 | — | 2.7 |
| vs LV | 3 | 10 | 7 | 121 | — | 12.1 |
| vs MIA | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | — | 1.2 |
| vs NE | 1 | 5 | 3 | 47 | 1 | 12.7 |
| vs NYJ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | — | 0.9 |
| vs WAS | 3 | 3 | 2 | 66 | 2 | 18.6 |
| By month | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 5 | 4 | 88 | — | 8.8 |
| September | 3 | 9 | 6 | 109 | 2 | 22.9 |
| October | 4 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 8.2 |
| November | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 7.2 |
| December | 6 | 20 | 10 | 104 | 1 | 18.4 |
| Division games | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec Yds | Rec TD | FPts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | 8 | 22 | 11 | 148 | — | 14.8 |
| Non-division | 9 | 23 | 15 | 187 | 5 | 50.7 |
Season-by-season quality (era-relative tackles/g)