Chig Okonkwo NFL Stats, Career Profile & VAL | StatVault | StatVault

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

Chig Okonkwo

TEWAS#85ACT

Chig Okonkwo

Top 24% all-time TEsReliable Starter

Height6'3"

Weight238 lb

BornSep 8, 1999

Age26

CollegeMaryland See College Stats

ConferenceBig Ten

Rookie yr2022

Draft2022 · Rd 4, Pick 143 · TEN

Archetype Intelligence

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A tight end with a top 30% among starters — the kind of consistent contributor every roster needs. Solid availability (exceptional availability — almost never missed time) added to their value.

Career Value · VORP

VORP 75 · #1508 · Above Average

Worth 75 points of value above a freely-available replacement tight end — top 33% of all 4,642 ranked at the position. 4 of 4 seasons cleared the replacement bar, by +18.8 on average.See board →

Seasons above replacement

4 cleared

Beat replacement (adds to VORP) Below it — adds 0, never a debit

46

Replacement

the KC-H bar

→

4

Seasons over

cleared the bar

×

+18.8

Avg surplus

peak +20

4 seasons × ~18.8 surplus ≈ VORP 75

Combined Season Grid

The full season-by-season grids, joined on one timeline. Every selected stat family stays visible at once—no tab hopping.

4 grids split in one view

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Receiving									Rushing								Defense													Snap Counts
Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tgt	Rec	Yds	TD	Ctch%	Y/R	Y/Tgt	AirYd/T	1D	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	TD%	1D	1D%	Fmb	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	Sfty	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2022	—	TEN	15	—	46	32	450	3	69.6%	14.1	9.8	—	22	3	2	0	0.7	0.0	0	0.0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	378	36.4%	—	0.0%	224	49.5%
2023	—	TEN	17	—	77	54	528	1	70.1%	9.8	6.9	—	25	2	6	0	3.0	0.0	1	50.0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	692	65.5%	—	0.0%	85	18.4%
2024	—	TEN	16	—	70	52	479	2	74.3%	9.2	6.8	—	20	1	17	0	17.0	0.0	1	100.0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	665	60.5%	—	0.0%	168	36.5%
2024	—	CHI	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
2025	—	TEN	17	—	79	56	560	2	70.9%	10.0	7.1	—	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	666	63.7%	—	0.0%	1	3.0%
Career		—	66	—	272	194	2,017	8	71.3%	10.4	7.4	—	91	6	25	0	4.2	0.0	2	33.3	0	2	2	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	2,401	56.5%	—	0.0%	478	26.8%

Career EPA20.0·-2 rushing · 22 receiving·6.7/season

Rushing

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	TD%	1D	1D%	Fmb	VAL
2022	23	TEN	15	0*	3	2	0	0.7	0.0	0	0.0	0	10.4
2023	24	TEN	17	11*	2	6	0	3.0	0.0	1	50.0	0	10.2
2024	25	TEN	16	10*	1	17	0	17.0	0.0	1	100.0	0	10.3
Career			48	21*	6	25	0	4.2	—	2	—	0	42.2

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Receiving

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tgt	Rec	Yds	TD	Ctch%	Y/R	Y/Tgt	AirYd/T	1D
2022	23	TEN	15	0*	46	32	450	3	69.6%	14.1	9.8	—	22
2023	24	TEN	17	11*	77	54	528	1	70.1%	9.8	6.9	—	25
2024	25	TEN	16	10*	70	52	479	2	74.3%	9.2	6.8	—	20
2025	26	TEN	17	11*	79	56	560	2	70.9%	10.0	7.1	—	24
Career			65	32*	272	194	2,017	8	71.3%	10.4	7.4	—	91

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Snap Counts

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2022	23	TEN	17	0*	378	36.4%	—	0.0%	224	49.5%
2023	24	TEN	17	11*	692	65.5%	—	0.0%	85	18.4%
2024	25	TEN	17	10*	665	60.5%	—	0.0%	168	36.5%
2025	26	TEN	17	11*	666	63.7%	—	0.0%	1	3.0%
Career			68	32*	2,401	—	—	—	478	—

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Advanced (EPA)

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Pass EPA	Rush EPA	Rec EPA	Pass AirYd	Rec AirYd
2022	23	—	—	0*	—	-3.2	22.8	0	353
2023	24	—	—	11*	—	-0.0	7.8	0	525
2024	25	—	—	10*	—	1.1	-8.4	0	415
Career				21*	—	—	—	0	1,293

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Advanced Rushing (2018+)

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	YBC	YBC/Att	YAC	YAC/Att	BrkTkl	Att/Br	1D
2022	23	TEN	17	0*	0	0.0	2	0.7	0	—	0
2023	24	TEN	17	11*	4	2.0	2	1.0	0	—	1
2024	25	TEN	17	10*	14	14.0	3	3.0	0	—	1
Career			51	21*	18	—	7	—	0	—	2

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Advanced Receiving (2018+)

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	ADOT	YBC/R	YAC/R	BrkTkl	Drops	Drop%	1D	TgtRate
2022	23	TEN	17	0*	7.6	6.1	7.9	3	3	0.1	22	122.6
2023	24	TEN	17	11*	6.8	5.0	4.8	5	6	0.1	25	88.0
2024	25	TEN	17	10*	5.9	4.4	4.8	5	3	0.0	19	78.2
2025	26	TEN	17	11*	4.7	3.9	6.1	6	5	0.1	24	93.9
Career			68	32*	—	—	—	19	17	—	90	—

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

KV-H Anatomy

KV-H 60 · Strong Starter

A strong starter career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 60 of 100, era-normalized against rec yds/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.

65

Sustained

career value

×.6

65

Peak

best 3 seasons

×.4

×0.93

Longevity

career length

Blend 65 × longevity 0.93 = KV-H 60· confidence 100%

What builds the career mark of 65

On-field 45.7

Availability 19.3

On-field production Staying available

Season-by-season quality (era-relative rec yds/g)

2022bestavg 652025

All-Time Standing

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

16

Depth

of 100

Reached 13% of the all-time Receptions leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

13% of the all-time Receptions leader13

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

6.68 EPA/season over 3 seasons52

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leaderat 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: 89%.

Per-Snap Impact

Tight Ends · proprietary · 2012+

66

Above average

SIS

Yards / snap:0.85 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap0.85Touch rate0.116EPA/snap0.008Snap share56.5%Off snaps2,401ConsistentCV 0.21

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within tight ends, 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 tight ends aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2022

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

TE · 2022 class

4.52s

40-Yard

Elite · 93th pct

Pos 93thAll 73thClass Pos 94thClass All 66th

35.5"

Vertical

Above avg · 74th pct

Pos 74thAll 69thClass Pos 81thClass All 70th

College Stats

MarylandCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Maryland), 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.

2022 Draft Class· this player went #143

#135Joshua WilliamsCB #136Cordell VolsonG #137Bailey ZappeQB #138Calvin Austin IIIWR #139Isaiah LikelyTE #140Zach TomG #141Damarion WilliamsCB #142Cobie DurantCB #144Sam HowellQB #145Darian KinnardG #146Micah McFaddenLB #147DJ DavidsonDT #148Khalil ShakirWR #149Cole TurnerTE #150Thomas BookerDT #151Tyler AllgeierRB

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Chig inherited the Tennessee Titans TE room from Anthony Firkser (2018–2021), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Chris Dressel 1983–1985Mike McCloskey 1983–1985Jamie Williams 1984–1988Roderick Lewis 1994–1997Michael Roan 1995–2000Frank Wycheck 1997–2003

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

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Movementderived from season history

2025final season
Last recorded season with TEN
2022draft
Drafted by TEN — Round 4, Pick 143

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'3" / 238 lb

Frame

238 lb at 4.52s

Size-speed

Injury History

From nflverse weekly injury reports · coverage begins 2009.

Season	Team	Games Out	Designations
2024	TEN	0	W18Questionable· Abdomen
2023	TEN	0	W16Questionable· Illness

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 4-season peers. See all →

60

peak 65

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

B2022

B2023

B2024

B2025

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 4 seasons.

100%

2022

Era Translator

Rec Yds translated to the 2025NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Rec Yds	Rec Yds/G	→ 2025 Rec Yds	→ 2025 /G
2022	450	30	539+89	31.7
2023	528	31.1	552+24	32.5
2024	479	29.9	528+49	31.1
2025	560	32.9	560	32.9

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 6/18/2026

Career Value · VORP

75 career value over replacement — #1508 all-time of 4,642. 18.8/season above a replacement-level TE.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #143 (Rd 4) · TEN · 2022 · +27 vs expected KV-H

60actual

33 expected · Δ+27

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