Jason Taylor is a Hall of Fame pass rusher whose career earned one of the highest career value scores of 97 in the Knox value model. Taylor's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.

On the boards· Appears on 7 boards

Streaks3 straight · 10 sacks · 2005–07

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Jason Taylor

★ HALL OF FAME6× Pro Bowl3× All-ProTop 1% all-time pass rushersIron LegendTeam Carrier · #49

Height6'6"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

505 career value over replacement — #17 all-time of 4,695. 33.7/season above a replacement-level LB.

Career Profile

Led league 1×5 top-10

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #73 (Rd 3) · MIA · 1997 · +56.8 vs expected KV-H

97actual

40.2 expected · Δ+56.8

💔+35.4 stolen VORP·1.05 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #49 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

133

3 qualifying seasons

2007 MIA·1 team win#12

Sacks · 11 · score 84

2004 MIA·4 team wins#17

Sacks · 10 · score 27

2006 MIA·6 team wins#4

Sacks · 14 · score 22

All-Time Standing

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

Strong

of 100

Reached 69% of the all-time Sacks leader — a strong all-time profile at the position.

69% of the all-time Sacks leader69

1 category ≥25% of the all-time leader33

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: 88%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 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

Understanding These Stats

Defense

Tkl / Solo / Ast — Combined tackles (Solo + ½ Assist). Solo = unassisted. Ast = helped by a teammate.

TFL — Tackles for loss — stops made behind the line of scrimmage (run stuffs + QB contain).

QBHits — QB hits — any legal contact on the quarterback, including but beyond sacks (hurries that land).

Sk — Sacks — tackled the QB behind the line for a loss. Half-sacks shared between defenders.

Dis — Disruption plays = sacks + QB hits + TFL. The composite pass-rush / run-stop impact stat for one season. Elite pass rushers post 30+ disruption plays per season.

Int — Interceptions caught by this defender.

PD — Passes defended — deflections and breakups.

FF / FR — Forced fumbles (stripped or jarred loose). Fumble Recoveries.

TD — Defensive touchdowns — picks, fumble returns, safeties returned.

Sfty — Safeties — tackled the ball carrier in their own end zone.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

Postseason Career

7 playoff games

Defense

Tkl28Solo19Ast9TFL7QBHits1Dis8.0

College Stats

AkronCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Akron), 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

Zach ThomasILB11y Olindo MareK10y Sam MadisonCB9y Tim BowensDT8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Jason inherited the Miami Dolphins LB room from Zach Thomas (1996–2007), and handed it to Joey Porter (2007–2009).

Earnest Rhone 1975–1984Bob Brudzinski 1981–1989Charles Bowser 1982–1985Hugh Green 1985–1991Bryan Cox 1991–1995Zach Thomas

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2011team change
Joined MIA (from NYJ)
2011final season
Last recorded season with MIA
2010team change
Joined NYJ (from MIA)
2009team change
Joined MIA (from WAS)
2008team change
Joined WAS (from MIA)
1997draft
Drafted by MIA — Round 3, Pick 73

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'6" / 244 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 15-season peers. See all →

Era Translator

Sacks 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 Sacks	Sacks/G	→ 2025 Sacks	→ 2025 /G
1997	5	0.4	6+1	0.3
1998	9	0.6	8-1	0.5
1999	2.5	0.2	2-0.5	0.1
2000	13.5	1	14+0.5	0.8
2001	8.5	0.5	8-0.5	0.5
2002	18.5	1.2	18-0.5	1.1
2003	12.5	0.8	13+0.5	0.8
2004	9.5	0.6	10+0.5	0.6
2005	12	0.8	12	0.7
2006	13.5	0.8	14+0.5	0.8
2007	11	0.7	11	0.7
2008	3.5	0.3	5+1.5	0.3
2009	6.5	0.4	7+0.5	0.4
2010	5	0.3	5	0.3
2011	7	0.6	9+2	0.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:injuries, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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

Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →

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Enshrined

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 34.7%All-Pro 29.4%Pro Bowls 14.7%Longevity 14.7%League Leads 3.3%All-Time Ranks 3.3%

Monitor score 122.6 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity92

Peak97

Accolades48

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

On the boards· Appears on 7 boards

Jason Taylor

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

Postseason Career

Defense

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

1997 Draft Class· this player went #73

Career Geography