Dre Kirkpatrick is a career quality starter — a defensive back whose body of work places Kirkpatrick in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Kirkpatrick's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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Dre Kirkpatrick

Top 25% all-time defensive backsHigh-End Starter🌅 Early Bloomer · 2014

Height6'2"

Weight190 lb

BornOct 26, 1989

Age36

CollegeAlabama See College Stats

Conference

Combined Season Grid

Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.

3 categories · One row per season · Scroll for all statistics

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%
2012	22–23	CIN	2	—	2	2	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2013	23–24	CIN	14	—	27	20	7	1	1	1.0	3.0	3	5	0	—	1	0	—	0.0%	302	34.1%	177	42.4%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2014	24–25	CIN	16	—	14	12	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	7	0	—	1	0	—	0.0%	243	24.6%	224	49.7%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2015	25–26	CIN	16	—	69	62	7	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	16	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	1,048	96.6%	78	17.9%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2016	26–27	CIN	15	—	45	34	11	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	10	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	974	93.2%	—	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2017	27–28	CIN	14	—	55	47	8	4	1	1.0	6.0	1	14	1	1	0	0	—	0.0%	868	86.4%	—	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2018	28–29	CIN	13	—	40	34	6	2	0	0.0	2.0	0	9	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	774	82.4%	—	0.0%	72	36	0.5	82.2	14.2	0	0	0	1	8	0.2
2019	29–30	CIN	6	—	30	24	6	2	1	1.0	4.0	0	4	0	1	0	0	—	0.0%	335	83.3%	—	0.0%	30	19	0.6	122.5	8.6	1	0	0	0	4	0.1
2020	30–31	ARI	14	—	56	53	3	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	7	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	750	75.4%	6	1.6%	94	62	0.7	80.1	8.9	0	0	0	1	11	0.2
2021	31–32	SF	6	—	6	5	1	1	0	0.0	1.0	0	0	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	95	25.8%	48	32.5%	9	6	0.7	129.9	7.7	0	0	0	0	1	0.1
Career		—	116	—	344	293	51	10	3	3.0	16.0	13	72	1	2	2	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	205	123	—	—	—	1	0	0	2	24	—

Career Value · VORP

92 career value over replacement — #1283 all-time of 4,695. 11.5/season above a replacement-level CB.

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #17 (Rd 1) · CIN · 2012 · +4.2 vs expected KV-H

61actual

56.8 expected · Δ+4.2

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Career arc · VAL by season

9 seasons · peak 4.5 in 2016

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.

What he added · wins above replacement

1.6 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL

Best season · 2016 · +0.3 wins

Defence+0.3

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.

Position percentile · DB

#275 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H

075th percentile100

StatVault · statvault.org/players/nfl/dre-kirkpatrickJSON

Defense

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	VAL
2012	22–23	CIN	2	—	2	2	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	—	0	—
2013	23–24	CIN	11	0*	27	20	7	1	1	1.0	3.0	3	5	0	—	1	4
2014	24–25	CIN	11	0*	14	12	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	7	0	—	1	3.5
2015	25–26	CIN	16	15*	69	62	7	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	16	0	—	0	1.8
2016	26–27	CIN	15	14*	45	34	11	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	10	0	—	0	4.5
2017	27–28	CIN	14	12*	55	47	8	4	1	1.0	6.0	1	14	1	1	0	2.8
2018	28–29	CIN	13	11*	40	34	6	2	0	0.0	2.0	0	9	0	—	0	0
2019	29–30	CIN	6	5*	30	24	6	2	1	1.0	4.0	0	4	0	1	0	0.5
2020	30–31	ARI	14	11*	56	53	3	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	7	0	—	0	3.8
2021	31–32	SF	2	0*	6	5	1	1	0	0.0	1.0	0	0	0	—	0	0
Career			104		344	293	51	10	3	3.0	16.0	13	72	1	2	2	20.9

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Snap Counts

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2013	23–24	CIN	14	0*	—	0.0%	302	34.1%	177	42.4%
2014	24–25	CIN	16	0*	—	0.0%	243	24.6%	224	49.7%
2015	25–26	CIN	16	15*	—	0.0%	1,048	96.6%	78	17.9%
2016	26–27	CIN	15	14*	—	0.0%	974	93.2%	—	0.0%
2017	27–28	CIN	14	12*	—	0.0%	868	86.4%	—	0.0%
2018	28–29	CIN	13	11*	—	0.0%	774	82.4%	—	0.0%
2019	29–30	CIN	6	5*	—	0.0%	335	83.3%	—	0.0%
2020	30–31	ARI	14	11*	—	0.0%	750	75.4%	6	1.6%
2021	31–32	SF	6	0*	—	0.0%	95	25.8%	48	32.5%
Career			—		—	—	—	—	—	—

Career games and per-game totals are unavailable because the season rows do not establish complete career coverage. Published career totals are preserved.