James Pearce Jr. is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Pearce in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Pearce'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 | 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% | |||||
| 2025 | 21–22 | ATL | 17 | — | 26 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 10.5 | 36.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 593 | 53.1% | — | 0.0% | 9 | 3 | 0.3 | 49.8 | -0.9 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 1 | 0.0 |
| Career | — | 17 | — | 26 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 10.5 | 36.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 593 | 53.1% | — | 0.0% | 9 | 3 | — | — | — | 27 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 1 | — | |
Pick #26 (Rd 1) · ATL · 2025 · +11.2 vs expected KV-H
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0.5 career wins over 1 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2025 · +0.5 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.
#270 of 1,595 all-time pass rushers by KV-H
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21–22 | ATL | 14 | 9* | 26 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 10.5 | 36.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 6.4 |
| Career | 14 | 9* | 26 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 10.5 | 36.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 6.4 |
* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)
* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Tgt | Cmp | Cmp% | RateAll | ADOT | Prss | Hrry | QBKD | Bltz | MissTkl | Miss% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21–22 | ATL | 17 | 9* | 9 | 3 | 0.3 | 49.8 | -0.9 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 1 | 0.0 |
| Career | 17 | 9* | 9 | 3 | — | — | — | 27 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 1 | — |
* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)
| Wk | Opp | Yds | TD | FP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W1 | TB | — | — | — |
| W2 | MIN | — | — | — |
| W6 | BUF | — | — | — |
| W7 | SF | — | — | — |
| W8 | MIA | — | — | — |
| W9 | NE | — | — | — |
| W10 | IND | — | — | — |
| W11 | CAR | — | — | — |
| W12 | NO | — | — | — |
| W13 | NYJ | — | — | — |
| W14 | SEA | — | — | — |
| W15 | TB | — | — | — |
| W16 | ARI | — | — | — |
| W17 | LA | — | — | — |
| W18 | NO | — | — | — |
Source: nflverse (CC-BY 4.0) · 2016–2026 · 15 games
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 | 7 |
| Away | 8 |
| Wins / Losses | G |
|---|---|
| Wins | 7 |
| Losses | 8 |
| Regular season / Postseason | G |
|---|---|
| Regular season | 15 |
| By opponent | G |
|---|---|
| vs ARI | 1 |
| vs BUF | 1 |
| vs CAR | 1 |
| vs IND | 1 |
| vs LA | 1 |
| vs MIA | 1 |
| vs MIN | 1 |
| vs NE | 1 |
| vs NO | 2 |
| vs NYJ | 1 |
| vs SEA | 1 |
| vs SF | 1 |
| By month | G |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 5 |
| December | 4 |
| Division games | G |
|---|---|
| Division | 5 |
| Non-division | 10 |
A strong starter career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 66 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 1 scored season, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 91 × longevity 0.72 = KV-H 66· confidence 100%
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| vs TB | 2 |