Brian Walker is a career quality starter — a defensive back whose body of work places Walker in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Walker's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
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 | |||||
| 1999 | 27 | SEA | 4 | — | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | MIA | 15 | — | 78 | 54 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 7 | 9 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 29 | MIA | 13 | — | 68 | 43 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 30 | DET | 10 | — | 42 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 31 | DET | 16 | — | 74 | 54 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 58 | — | 268 | 186 | 82 | 9 | 1 | 3.5 | 13.5 | 11 | 30 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | |
Career Value · VORP
54 career value over replacement — #1990 all-time of 4,695. 10.8/season above a replacement-level S.
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1996–1998: these seasons predate StatVault's committed NFL season-grid source (1999+), so they are recorded as a known gap rather than shown as zero.
5 seasons · peak 10.6 in 2000
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.
1.0 career wins over 5 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2000 · +0.8 wins
Latest season · 2003 · +0.1 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.
#247 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H
A strong starter career by KV-H: a peak-driven profile that scores 62 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 5 scored seasons.
Blend 62.4 × longevity 1 = KV-H 62· confidence 90%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative int/g)
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