Chad Pennington is one of the most consistent quarterbacks of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Pennington delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

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Chad Pennington

Top 18% all-time QBsElite Playmaker⚡ Breakout · 2002 📉 Fades · -13% playoffs 📈 Late Developer · 2008 Team Carrier · #385

Career Value · VORP

128 career value over replacement — #812 all-time of 4,695. 21.3/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

3 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Comet57% in top 3 yrs Mr. ReliableCV 0.24

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #18 (Rd 1) · NYJ · 2000 · +2.3 vs expected KV-H

59actual

56.7 expected · Δ+2.3

💔+76.7 stolen VORP·3.6 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #385 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

3 qualifying seasons

2007 NYJ·4 team wins#23

Passing Touchdowns · 10 · score 9

2003 NYJ·6 team wins#21

Passing Touchdowns · 13 · score 5

2003 NYJ·6 team wins#24

Passing Yards · 2,139 · score 2

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 20% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

20% of the all-time Passing Yards leader20

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

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: 88%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 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)Not available for this player

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

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average QBs aging curve. Group peak age: 24. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2000

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

QB · 2000 class

4.81s

40-Yard

Above avg · 50th pct

Pos 50thAll 36thClass Pos 67thClass All 37th

33.5"

Vertical

Above avg · 73th pct

Pos 73thAll 51thClass Pos 65thClass All 53th

111"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

📉 Regular Season Player

Passer Rating: 90.1 regular season → 78.0 playoffs (4 playoff seasons)

-13%

vs reg season

Career Milestones6

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

20021K career passing yards
20035K career passing yards
200325 career passing TDs
200450 career passing TDs
200610K career passing yards
2008100 career passing TDs

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Postseason Career

6 playoff games

Passing

Cmp132Att216Cmp%61.1%Yds1,418TD8Int8TD%3.7Int%3.7Y/A6.6

College Stats

MarshallCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Marshall), 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

Shaun EllisDE8y John AbrahamOLB6y Curtis MartinRB6y Laveranues ColesWR6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Chad inherited the New York Jets QB room from Vinny Testaverde (1998–2005), and handed it to Mark Sanchez (2009–2012).

Joe Namath 1965–1976Richard Todd 1976–1983Ken O'Brien 1984–1992Boomer Esiason 1993–1995Neil O'Donnell 1996–1997Vinny Testaverde

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2010final season
Last recorded season with MIA
2008team change
Joined MIA (from NYJ)
2000draft
Drafted by NYJ — Round 1, Pick 18

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'3" / 225 lb

Frame

229 lb at 4.81s

Size-speed

33.5" vert / 111" 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 6-season peers. See all →

peak 61

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

C+2002

C+2003

C+2004

B2006

C+2007

B2008

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 11 seasons.

60%

Era Translator

Pass Yds 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 Pass Yds	Pass Yds/G	→ 2025 Pass Yds	→ 2025 /G
2002	3,120	208	3,760+640	221.2
2003	2,139	213.9	3,814+1,675	224.3
2004	2,673	205.6	3,729+1,056	219.3
2006	3,352	209.5	3,793+441	223.1
2007	1,766	196.2	3,635+1,869	213.8
2008	3,653	228.3	3,964+311	233.2

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:combine, nflverse:player_stats · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026