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

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#24Per-snap impactof 300

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Brian Burns

3× Pro BowlTop 21% all-time linebackersPer-Snap Specialist📈 Late Developer · 2025 Team Carrier · #59

Height6'5"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

70 career value over replacement — #1651 all-time of 4,695. 10/season above a replacement-level LB.

Career Profile

2 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #16 (Rd 1) · CAR · 2019 · +1.8 vs expected KV-H

59actual

57.2 expected · Δ+1.8

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #59 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

118

4 qualifying seasons

2025 NYG·4 team wins#2

Sacks · 17 · score 72

2020 CAR·5 team wins#14

Sacks · 9 · score 24

2024 NYG·3 team wins#23

Sacks · 9 · score 12

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 36% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

36% of the all-time Sacks leader36

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: 91%.

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

Methodology · Trust Center

Per-Snap Impact

Linebackers · proprietary · 2012+

Elite

SIS

Disruption / 100 snaps:6.272See leaderboard →

Disruption/1006.272Snap share73.4%Def snaps5,676ReliableCV 0.33

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within linebackers, 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 linebackers aging curve. Group peak age: 32. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2019

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

LB · 2019 class

4.53s

40-Yard

Strong · 89th pct

Pos 89thAll 73thClass Pos 81thClass All 72th

36"

Vertical

Above avg · 71th pct

Pos 71thAll 75thClass Pos 63thClass All 69th

129"

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)

College Stats

Florida StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Florida 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

J.J. JansenLS5y Chris ManhertzTE5y Shaq ThompsonOLB5y Taylor MotonOT5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Brian inherited the Carolina Panthers LB room from Luke Kuechly (2012–2019), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Sam Mills 1995–1997Lamar Lathon 1995–1998Thomas Davis 2005–2018Luke Kuechly 2012–2019Brian Burns 2019–2023

Brian inherited the New York Giants LB room from Landon Collins (2015–2022)

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

Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with NYG
2024team change
Joined NYG (from CAR)
2019draft
Drafted by CAR — Round 1, Pick 16

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'5" / 250 lb

Frame

249 lb at 4.53s

Size-speed

36" vert / 129" broad

Explosion

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 61

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

C2019

B2020

C+2021

C+2022

C+2023

B2024

B2025

Availability

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

87%

Era Translator

Tackles 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 Tackles	Tackles/G	→ 2025 Tackles	→ 2025 /G
2019	23	1.9	25+2	1.5
2020	58	3.9	62+4	3.7
2021	46	2.9	45-1	2.7
2022	59	3.7	60+1	3.5
2023	43	2.7	45+2	2.6
2024	64	3.8	64	3.8
2025	67	3.9	67	3.9

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/15/2026

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.