DeForest Buckner ranks in the all-time elite tier for pass rushers — a career that places Buckner in the top 5% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Buckner a career score of 84, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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DeForest Buckner

3× Pro Bowl1× All-ProTop 4% all-time pass rushersFranchise Cornerstone🌅 Early Bloomer · 2018 Team Carrier · #289

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Career Value · VORP

285 career value over replacement — #160 all-time of 4,695. 28.5/season above a replacement-level DL.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #7 (Rd 1) · SF · 2016 · +20.7 vs expected KV-H

84actual

63.3 expected · Δ+20.7

💔+43.9 stolen VORP·1.54 szns lost

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Combined Season Grid

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Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Defense													Snap Counts						Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)
Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	Sfty	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	RateAll	ADOT	Prss	Hrry	QBKD	Bltz	MissTkl	Miss%
2016	22	SF	15	—	68	38	30	7	18	6.0	31.0	0	1	0	2	0	0	—	0.0%	1,006	92.9%	103	22.5%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2017	23	SF	16	—	52	36	16	5	22	3.0	30.0	0	5	1	—	0	0	—	0.0%	863	76.2%	87	19.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2018	24	SF	16	—	59	36	23	17	20	12.0	49.0	0	3	0	1	0	0	—	0.0%	852	79.4%	164	35.1%	1	1	1.0	91.7	1.0	34	15	6	0	6	0.1
2019	25	SF	16	—	61	33	28	9	14	7.5	30.5	0	2	2	4	1	0	1	0.1%	810	79.9%	158	35.4%	1	1	1.0	79.2	-6.0	20	7	5	0	3	0.0
2020	26	IND	15	—	49	28	21	10	26	9.5	45.5	0	3	2	1	0	1	—	0.0%	751	78.3%	129	31.4%	0	0	—	—	—	31	4	16	0	2	0.0
2021	27	IND	17	—	56	28	28	10	18	7.0	35.0	0	3	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	844	77.3%	151	34.1%	2	2	1.0	91.7	-0.5	27	8	11	3	5	0.1
2022	28	IND	17	—	64	34	30	11	22	8.0	41.0	0	3	2	1	0	0	—	0.0%	873	76.2%	19	4.0%	4	3	0.8	77.1	-2.8	29	9	10	1	2	0.0
2023	29	IND	17	—	71	35	36	11	21	8.0	40.0	0	7	2	1	1	0	—	0.0%	840	72.2%	21	4.1%	1	1	1.0	79.2	-3.0	25	4	12	2	4	0.0
2024	30	IND	12	—	57	20	37	8	14	6.5	28.5	0	1	0	—	0	0	1	0.1%	578	71.8%	4	1.2%	0	0	—	—	—	19	5	7	0	7	0.1
2025	31	IND	10	—	47	30	17	9	13	4.0	26.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	469	70.5%	5	1.9%	1	1	1.0	79.2	-7.0	20	7	9	2	2	0.0
2026	32	IND	5	—	24	8	16	4	8	4.0	16.0	0	2	0	1	0	0	—	0.0%	261	80.4%	—	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career		—	156	—	608	326	282	101	196	75.5	372.5	0	30	9	11	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	10	9	—	—	—	205	59	76	8	31	—

All-Time Rank & Honors

career ranks, postseason ranks, awards, title context

Regular-season all-time ranks

85thSacks·75.5

Pro Bowls

All-Pro

Archetype Intelligence

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A top 5% all-time edge rusher with excellent availability over their career and elite per-snap production (top 5% in their position group). The rarest archetype in the game — dominance, efficiency, and health in one player.

Career Value · VORP

VORP 285 · #160 · All-Time

Worth 285 points of value above a freely-available replacement interior lineman — top 4% of all 4,695 ranked at the position. 10 of 10 seasons cleared the replacement bar, by +28.5 on average.See board →

Seasons above replacement

10 cleared

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

Replacement

the KC-H bar

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Seasons over

cleared the bar

+28.5

Avg surplus

peak +44

10 seasons × ~28.5 surplus ≈ VORP 285