Darren Mickell is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Mickell in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Mickell'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 | |||||
| 1993 | 23 | KC | 16 | — | 17 | 17 | — | — | — | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | KC | 16 | — | 37 | 34 | — | — | — | 7.0 | 7.0 | — | 1 | 4 | — | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | KC | 12 | — | 17 | 14 | — | — | — | 5.5 | 5.5 | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | NO | 12 | — | 33 | 26 | — | — | — | 3.0 | 3.0 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | NO | 14 | — | 32 | 20 | — | — | — | 3.5 | 3.5 | — | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | SD | 13 | — | 27 | 26 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6.0 | 19.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 83 | — | 163 | 137 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 26.0 | 39.0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | — | 0 | 0 | |
Career Value · VORP
71 career value over replacement — #1633 all-time of 4,695. 11.8/season above a replacement-level EDGE.
Pick #2 (Rd 2) · KC · 1992 · +1.7 vs expected KV-H
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1992: 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 4.9 in 1994
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.
1.1 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 1994 · +0.4 wins
Latest season · 2000 · +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.
#294 of 1,595 all-time pass rushers by KV-H
A strong starter career by KV-H: a peak-driven profile that scores 65 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 6 scored seasons.
Blend 65.4 × longevity 1 = KV-H 65· confidence 100%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative sacks/g)
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