Daniel Fells is a career quality starter — a tight end whose body of work places Fells in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Fells'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 | Receiving | Snap Counts | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Ctch% | Y/R | Y/Tgt | AirYd/T | 1D | Off | Off% | Def | Def% | ST | ST% | |||||
| 2008 | 24–25 | STL | 4 | — | 7 | 7 | 81 | 0 | 100.0% | 11.6 | 11.6 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 25–26 | STL | 12 | — | 35 | 21 | 273 | 3 | 60.0% | 13.0 | 7.8 | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2010 | 26–27 | STL | 16 | — | 65 | 41 | 391 | 2 | 63.1% | 9.5 | 6.0 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2011 | 27–28 | DEN | 13 | — | 31 | 19 | 256 | 3 | 61.3% | 13.5 | 8.3 | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | 28–29 | NE | 6 | — | 9 | 4 | 85 | 0 | 44.4% | 21.3 | 9.4 | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 30–31 | NYG | 16 | — | 20 | 16 | 188 | 4 | 80.0% | 11.8 | 9.4 | — | 12 | 427 | 37.6% | — | 0.0% | 183 | 38.4% |
| 2015 | 31–32 | NYG | 2 | — | 7 | 6 | 60 | 0 | 85.7% | 10.0 | 8.6 | — | 4 | 67 | 52.5% | — | 0.0% | 17 | 29.0% |
| Career | — | 69 | — | 174 | 114 | 1,334 | 12 | 65.5% | 11.7 | 7.7 | — | 73 | 494 | 39.2% | — | 0.0% | 200 | 37.4% | |
Career Value · VORP
28 career value over replacement — #2777 all-time of 4,695. 4.7/season above a replacement-level TE.
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2006–2007: no recorded NFL regular-season production. StatVault's source covers these seasons in full, so this is an absence of production, not of data.
6 seasons · peak 1.9 in 2009
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.
0.5 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2010 · +0.1 wins
Latest season · 2014 · +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.
#259 of 698 all-time TEs by KV-H
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Ctch% | Y/R | Y/Tgt | AirYd/T | 1D | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 24–25 | STL | 4 | — | 7 | 7 | 81 | 0 | 100.0% | 11.6 | 11.6 | — | 4 | 0.1 |
| 2009 | 25–26 | STL | 12 | — | 35 | 21 | 273 | 3 | 60.0% | 13.0 | 7.8 | — | 13 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 26–27 | STL | 16 | — | 65 | 41 | 391 | 2 | 63.1% | 9.5 | 6.0 | — | 24 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 27–28 | DEN | 13 | — | 31 | 19 | 256 | 3 | 61.3% | 13.5 | 8.3 | — | 13 | 1.7 |
| 2012 | 28–29 | NE | 6 | — | 9 | 4 | 85 | 0 | 44.4% | 21.3 | 9.4 | — | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 | 30–31 | NYG | 12 | 0* | 20 | 16 | 188 | 4 | 80.0% | 11.8 | 9.4 | — | 12 | 0.9 |
| 2015 | 31–32 | NYG | 2 | — | 7 | 6 | 60 | 0 | 85.7% | 10.0 | 8.6 | — | 4 | — |
| Career | 65 | 174 | 114 | 1,334 | 12 | 65.5% | 11.7 | 7.7 | — | 73 | 6.5 |
* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Off | Off% | Def | Def% | ST | ST% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 30–31 | NYG | 16 | 0* | 427 | 37.6% | — | 0.0% | 183 | 38.4% |
| 2015 | 31–32 | NYG | 2 | — | 67 | 52.5% | — | 0.0% | 17 | 29.0% |
| Career | 18 | 494 | 39.2% | — | 0.0% | 200 | 37.4% |
* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)
A solid career by KV-H: a peak-driven profile that scores 51 of 100, era-normalized against rec yds/g peers across 6 scored seasons.
Blend 51.4 × longevity 1 = KV-H 51· confidence 88%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative rec yds/g)
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