Joe Flacco is one of the most consistent quarterbacks of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Flacco delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

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Joe Flacco

1× Pro BowlTop 16% all-time QBsElite Playmaker⛰️ Mountain Arc · 2016 Team Carrier · #547

Height6'6"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

308 career value over replacement — #122 all-time of 4,695. 18.1/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

2 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Compiler25% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.21

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #18 (Rd 1) · BAL · 2008 · +4.3 vs expected KV-H

61actual

56.7 expected · Δ+4.3

💔+110 stolen VORP·6.08 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #547 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

1 qualifying season

2015 BAL·5 team wins#25

Passing Yards · 2,791 · score 2

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 54% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

54% of the all-time Passing Yards leader54

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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: 90%.

Encyclopedia Coverage6/8 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)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

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

Combine · 2008

Percentiles compare each raw measurement against position peers, the full combine pool, and the same draft class where enough samples exist.

QB · 2008 class

4.84s

40-Yard

Below avg · 40th pct

Pos 40thAll 33thClass Pos 46thClass All 32th

28.5"

Vertical

Low · 18th pct

Pos 18thAll 15thClass Pos 55thClass All 37th

110"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Passer Rating: 84.1 regular season → 87.9 playoffs (7 playoff seasons)

+4%

vs reg season

Career Milestones12

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

20081K career passing yards
20095K career passing yards
200925 career passing TDs
201010K career passing yards
201050 career passing TDs
2012100 career passing TDs
2013

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.

Postseason Career

16 playoff games

Passing

Cmp287Att493Cmp%58.2%Yds3,530TD26Int12TD%5.3Int%2.4Y/A7.2

College Stats

Delaware; PittsburghCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Delaware; Pittsburgh), 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

Terrell SuggsOLB11y Sam KochP11y Lardarius WebbFS9y Jimmy SmithCB8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Joe inherited the Baltimore Ravens QB room from Johnny Unitas (1956–1972), and handed it to Lamar Jackson (2018–2026).

Johnny Unitas 1956–1972Joe Flacco 2008–2018Lamar Jackson 2018–2026

The room is reconstructed from arrival order among durable members (≥4 seasons with the club) at the player’s position group — a lineage by arrival, not a week-by-week depth chart. Distinct from the league-wide positional GOAT torch.

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with CIN
2025team change
Joined CIN (from IND)
2024team change
Joined IND (from CLE)
2023team change
Joined CLE (from NYJ)
2020team change
Joined NYJ (from DEN)
2019team change
Joined DEN (from BAL)
2008draft
Drafted by BAL — Round 1, Pick 18

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'6" / 245 lb

Frame

236 lb at 4.84s

Size-speed

28.5" vert / 110" broad

Explosion

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 17-season peers. See all →

peak 64

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

C+2008

B2009

B2010

B2011

B2012

B2013

B2014

B2015

B2016

C2017

C+2018

C2019

F2020

F2022

C2023

C+2024

C2025

Availability

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
2008	2,971	185.7	3,459+488	203.5
2009	3,613	225.8	3,859+246	227
2010	3,622	226.4	3,815+193	224.4
2011	3,610	225.6	3,729+119	219.3
2012	3,817	238.6	3,864+47	227.3
2013	3,912	244.5	3,814-98	224.4
2014	3,986	249.1	3,839-147	225.8
2015	2,791	279.1	4,266+1,475	251
2016	4,317	269.8	4,064-253	239.1
2017	3,141	196.3	2,917-224	171.6
2018	2,465	273.9	4,157+1,692	244.5
2019	1,822	227.8	3,548+1,726	208.7
2020	864	172.8	2,768+1,904	162.8
2022	1,051	210.2	3,493+2,442	205.5
2023	1,616	323.2	5,339+3,723	314.1
2024	1,761	251.6	4,233+2,472	249
2025	2,479	190.7	3,242+763	190.7

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/15/2026

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.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

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.