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

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#25Stolen seasonsof 897

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Jeff Blake

1× Pro BowlTop 19% all-time QBsElite Playmaker🌅 Early Bloomer · 1995 Team Carrier · #85

Height6'1"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

168 career value over replacement — #545 all-time of 4,695. 18.7/season above a replacement-level QB.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #166 (Rd 6) · NYJ · 1992 · +34.9 vs expected KV-H

59actual

24.1 expected · Δ+34.9

💔+87.5 stolen VORP·4.68 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #85 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

4 qualifying seasons

1999 CIN·4 team wins#15

Passing Touchdowns · 15 · score 33

1999 CIN·4 team wins#16

Passing Yards · 2,630 · score 30

2003 ARI·4 team wins#21

Passing Yards · 2,252 · score 15

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 24% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

24% of the all-time Passing Yards leader24

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

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: 85%.

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

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Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

= this player (normalized to own peak). = average QBs aging curve. Group peak age: 24. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Career Milestones8

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

19941K career passing yards
19955K career passing yards
199525 career passing TDs
199650 career passing TDs
199710K career passing yards
19971K career rushing yards
2000

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.

College Stats

East CarolinaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (East Carolina), 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

Kimo von OelhoffenDT6y Tony McGeeTE6y Carl PickensWR6y Darnay ScottWR6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Jeff inherited the Cincinnati Bengals QB room from Boomer Esiason (1984–1997), and handed it to Jon Kitna (2001–2005).

Boomer Esiason 1984–1997Jeff Blake 1994–1999Jon Kitna 2001–2005Carson Palmer 2004–2010Andy Dalton 2011–2019Joe Burrow

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2005team change
Joined CHI (from PHI)
2005final season
Last recorded season with CHI
2004team change
Joined PHI (from ARI)
2003team change
Joined ARI (from BAL)
2002team change
Joined BAL (from NO)
2000team change
Joined NO (from CIN)
1994team change
Joined CIN (from NYJ)

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 223 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 9-season peers. See all →

peak 65

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

C+1994

B+1995

B1996

C+1997

F1998

C+1999

C+2000

C+2002

C2003

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 13 seasons.

61%

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
1994	2,154	215.4	4,039+1,885	237.6
1995	3,822	238.9	4,281+459	251.8
1996	3,624	226.5	4,173+549	245.5
1997	2,125	193.2	3,769+1,644	221.7
1998	739	67.2	2,210+1,471	130
1999	2,630	187.9	3,663+1,033	215.5
2000	2,004	182.2	3,515+1,511	206.8
2002	2,084	208.4	3,765+1,681	221.5
2003	2,252	173.2	3,194+942	187.9

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), wikipedia:college-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · 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.

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.