Donovan McNabb is one of the most consistent quarterbacks of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, McNabb delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

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Donovan McNabb

6× Pro BowlTop 8% all-time QBsElite PlaymakerTeam Carrier · #280

Height6'2"

Weight240 lb

Born

Career Value · VORP

317 career value over replacement — #112 all-time of 4,695. 24.4/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

6 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Compiler31% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.26

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #2 (Rd 1) · PHI · 1999 · +4.7 vs expected KV-H

68actual

63.3 expected · Δ+4.7

💔+66.6 stolen VORP·2.73 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #280 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

Full board

Total Score

4 qualifying seasons

2010 WAS·6 team wins#14

Passing Yards · 3,377 · score 12

2005 PHI·6 team wins#16

Passing Touchdowns · 16 · score 10

2005 PHI·6 team wins#18

Passing Yards · 2,507 · score 8

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 42% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

42% of the all-time Passing Yards leader42

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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: 87%.

Encyclopedia Coverage4/8 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

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Passer Rating: 85.9 regular season → 80.5 playoffs (7 playoff seasons)

-6%

vs reg season

Career Milestones13

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

20001K career passing yards
200025 career passing TDs
20015K career passing yards
200150 career passing TDs
20011K career rushing yards
200310K career passing yards
2004

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Postseason Career

16 playoff games

Passing

Cmp340Att576Cmp%59.0%Yds3,745TD25Int17TD%4.3Int%3.0Y/A6.5

College Stats

SyracuseCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Syracuse), 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

David AkersK11y Brian DawkinsS10y Sheldon BrownCB8y Brian WestbrookRB8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Donovan inherited the Philadelphia Eagles QB room from Randall Cunningham (1985–1995), and handed it to Jeff Garcia (2006–2009).

Sonny Jurgensen 1957–1963Norm Van Brocklin 1958–1960Randall Cunningham 1985–1995Donovan McNabb 1999–2009Jeff Garcia 2006–2009Mike Vick

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

Movementderived from season history

2011team change
Joined MIN (from WAS)
2011final season
Last recorded season with MIN
2010team change
Joined WAS (from PHI)
1999draft
Drafted by PHI — Round 1, Pick 2

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'2" / 240 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 13-season peers. See all →

peak 70

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

F1999

B2000

B2001

C+2002

C+2003

B+2004

B2005

B2006

B2007

B2008

B2009

B2010

F2011

Era Translator

Pass Yds 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 Pass Yds	Pass Yds/G	→ 2025 Pass Yds	→ 2025 /G
1999	934	84.9	2,320+1,386	136.4
2000	3,320	207.5	3,851+531	226.5
2001	3,233	215.5	3,921+688	230.6
2002	2,289	228.9	4,047+1,758	238.1
2003	3,223	201.4	3,624+401	213.2
2004	3,875	258.3	4,465+590	262.7
2005	2,507	278.6	4,719+2,212	277.6
2006	2,612	261.2	4,466+1,854	262.7
2007	3,324	237.4	4,154+830	244.4
2008	3,914	244.6	4,157+243	244.6
2009	3,553	253.8	4,225+672	248.6
2010	3,377	259.8	4,256+879	250.4
2011	1,026	171	2,986+1,960	175.7

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

Rushing

Att — Rushing attempts (carries).

Yds — Rushing yards.

TD — Rushing touchdowns.

Y/A — Yards per carry — rushing yards ÷ carries. The core rushing efficiency rate; 4.5+ is solid, 5+ is elite.

TD% — Touchdown rate per carry (TDs ÷ carries × 100) — measures scoring efficiency per touch independent of volume. Red-zone workhorses lead here.

1D — First downs gained on rushing plays.

1D% — First-down conversion rate (first downs ÷ carries × 100) — how often a carry moves the chains. Top RBs convert on 25%+ of attempts.

Fmb — Rushing fumbles lost — the key ball-security stat for running backs. Below 1 per season is elite.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

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.

Canton Monitor · HOF

Calibrated Hall-of-Fame probability — fit against actual enshrinement. See all →

20%

Building a Case

What carries the case

Pro Bowls 37.9%Longevity 34.7%Era Quality (KV-H) 23.2%All-Time Ranks 4.2%

Monitor score 47.5 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

What Would It Take?

To reach 50% HOF probability (score target: 109.1 · current: 47.5 · gap: +61.6)

5 more more seasons started(Starter Seasons · 1.5 pts each · +8 pts total)

6 more selections(First-Team All-Pro · 12 pts each · +72 pts total)

16 more seasons leading the NFL(League Lead · 4 pts each · +64 pts total)

Paths ranked cheapest first · accolade-based, data-calibrated vs actual enshrinement

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity82

Peak70

Accolades15

Consistency74

Per-Snap50

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Donovan McNabb

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

Postseason Career

Passing

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

Rushing

1999 Draft Class· this player went #2

Career Geography