Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | Snap Counts | Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | |||||
| 2021 | 22 | DET | 7 | — | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 242 | 55.3% | 34 | 16.7% | 23 | 14 | 0.6 | 120.4 | 12.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 23 | DET | 10 | — | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 98 | 15.7% | 81 | 30.5% | 6 | 4 | 0.7 | 131.2 | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 24 | DET | 17 | — | 28 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3.0 | 12.0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 399 | 36.6% | 180 | 40.5% | 28 | 15 | 0.5 | 61.2 | 8.6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 25 | DET | 3 | — | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 137 | 71.0% | 6 | 8.3% | 7 | 5 | 0.7 | 90.2 | 6.7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 26 | MIA | 16 | — | 52 | 30 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 547 | 54.1% | 104 | 26.4% | 28 | 24 | 0.9 | 128.0 | 7.4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 0.1 |
| 2026 | 27 | TB | 5 | — | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 63 | 21.0% | 85 | 66.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 58 | — | 119 | 79 | 40 | 7 | 8 | 5.5 | 20.5 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 92 | 62 | — | — | — | 14 | 5 | 3 | 43 | 12 | — | |
Career Value · VORP
30 career value over replacement — #2700 all-time of 4,695. 10/season above a replacement-level S.
Pick #101 (Rd 3) · DET · 2021 · +10.3 vs expected KV-H
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5 seasons · peak 4.4 in 2023
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.
0.4 career wins over 5 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2023 · +0.3 wins
Latest season · 2026 · −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.
#626 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Off | Off% | Def | Def% | ST | ST% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | DET | 7 | — | — | 0.0% | 242 | 55.3% | 34 | 16.7% |
| 2022 | 23 | DET | 10 | — | — | 0.0% | 98 | 15.7% | 81 | 30.5% |
| 2023 | 24 | DET | 17 | — | — | 0.0% | 399 | 36.6% | 180 | 40.5% |
| 2024 | 25 | DET | 3 | — | — | 0.0% | 137 | 71.0% | 6 | 8.3% |
| 2025 | 26 | MIA | 16 | — | — | 0.0% | 547 | 54.1% | 104 | 26.4% |
| 2026 | 27 | TB | 5 | — | — | 0.0% | 63 | 21.0% | 85 | 66.0% |
| Career | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Career games and per-game totals are unavailable because the season rows do not establish complete career coverage. Published career totals are preserved.
Folded from the per-game logs on file. Home/away, result, month and division come from the NFL schedule feed; where a game has no schedule row those dimensions leave it out rather than guess, and the count is shown.
| Home / Away | G |
|---|---|
| Home | 8 |
| Away | 8 |
| Wins / Losses | G |
|---|---|
| Wins | 7 |
| Losses | 9 |
| Regular season / Postseason | G |
|---|---|
| Regular season | 16 |
| By opponent | G |
|---|---|
| vs ATL | 1 |
| vs BAL | 1 |
| vs BUF | 1 |
| vs CAR | 1 |
| vs CIN | 1 |
| vs CLE | 1 |
| vs DAL | 1 |
| vs IND | 1 |
| vs MIN | 1 |
| vs NE | 2 |
| vs NO | 1 |
| vs NYJ | 1 |
| By month | G |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 5 |
| November | 3 |
| December | 4 |
| Division games | G |
|---|---|
| Division | 4 |
| Non-division | 12 |
A solid career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 46 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 3 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 53.2 × longevity 0.86 = KV-H 46· confidence 92%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative int/g)
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| vs PIT | 1 |
| vs TB | 1 |
| vs WAS | 1 |