Also in other sports:mlbChuck Smith (P · 2000–2001).

Chuck Smith ranks in the all-time elite tier for pass rushers — a career that places Smith in the top 10% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Smith a career score of 77, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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#86Stolen seasonsof 897

DECAR#91RES

Chuck Smith

Top 7% all-time pass rushersElite Playmaker🌅 Early Bloomer · 1994 Team Carrier · #390

Height6'2"

Weight262 lb

Career Value · VORP

170 career value over replacement — #531 all-time of 4,695. 24.3/season above a replacement-level EDGE.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #51 (Rd 2) · ATL · 1992 · +29.4 vs expected KV-H

77actual

47.6 expected · Δ+29.4

💔+61.2 stolen VORP·2.52 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #390 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

1 qualifying season

1999 ATL·5 team wins#18

Sacks · 9 · score 16

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 29% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

29% of the all-time Sacks leader29

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: 89%.

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). = average edge rushers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

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.

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College Stats

Tennessee; Northeast OklahomaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Tennessee; Northeast Oklahoma), 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

Jessie TuggleMLB8y Lester ArchambeauDE7y Terance MathisWR6y Jamal AndersonRB6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Chuck opened the Atlanta Falcons DL lineage the corpus knows, and handed it to Lester Archambeau (1993–1999).

Chuck Smith 1992–1999Lester Archambeau 1993–1999Travis Hall 1995–2004Patrick Kerney 1999–2006Brady Smith 2000–2005Rod Coleman 2004–2007

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

Movementderived from season history

2000team change
Joined CAR (from ATL)
2000final season
Last recorded season with CAR
1992draft
Drafted by ATL — Round 2, Pick 51

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'2" / 262 lb

Frame

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 81

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

C+1992

A+1994

B1995

B1996

A1997

B+1998

B+1999

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 9 seasons.

72%

Era Translator

Sacks 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 Sacks	Sacks/G	→ 2025 Sacks	→ 2025 /G
1992	2	0.1	2	0.1
1994	11	1.1	15+4	0.9
1995	5.5	0.4	6+0.5	0.3
1996	6	0.4	6	0.4
1997	12	0.8	12	0.7
1998	8.5	0.5	8-0.5	0.4
1999	9	0.6	9	0.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:player_stats_def, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.