Kerby Joseph ranks in the all-time elite tier for defensive backs — a career that places Joseph in the top 3% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Joseph a career score of 79, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.
Career Value · VORP
130 career value over replacement — #803 all-time of 4,695. 32.5/season above a replacement-level S.
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Pick #97 (Rd 3) · DET · 2022 · +41.5 vs expected KV-H
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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% | |||||
| 2022 | 21–22 | DET | 17 | — | 69 | 48 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 878 | 79.4% | 170 | 37.1% | 40 | 25 | 0.6 | 84.8 | 13.9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 22–23 | DET | 15 | — | 77 | 64 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 911 | 94.5% | 107 | 27.1% | 58 | 32 | 0.6 | 70.5 | 17.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 23–24 | DET | 17 | — | 76 | 52 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 1,085 | 99.1% | 106 | 22.6% | 43 | 19 | 0.4 | 39.1 | 14.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0.1 |
| 2025 | 24–25 | DET | 6 | — | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 316 | 87.5% | 11 | 6.8% | 15 | 10 | 0.7 | 92.9 | 12.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.2 |
| Career | — | 55 | — | 240 | 178 | 62 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 20 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 3,190 | 90.5% | 394 | 26.6% | 156 | 86 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 29 | — | |
4 seasons · peak 12.6 in 2024
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.
2.0 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2024 · +1.0 wins
Source: nflverse (CC-BY 4.0) · 2016–2026 · 6 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 | 2 |
| Away | 4 |
| Wins / Losses | G |
|---|---|
| Wins | 4 |
| Losses | 2 |
A great career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 79 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 84.8 × longevity 0.93 = KV-H 79· confidence 94%
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Latest season · 2025 · +0.3 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.
#25 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H
| Regular season / Postseason |
|---|
| G |
|---|
| Regular season | 6 |
| By opponent | G |
|---|---|
| vs BAL | 1 |
| vs CHI | 1 |
| vs CIN | 1 |
| vs CLE | 1 |
| vs GB | 1 |
| vs KC | 1 |
| By month | G |
|---|---|
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
| Division games | G |
|---|---|
| Division | 2 |
| Non-division | 4 |
Season-by-season quality (era-relative int/g)