Mark Brunell is a career quality starter — a quarterback whose body of work places Brunell in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Brunell's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Career Value · VORP
245 career value over replacement — #240 all-time of 4,695. 20.4/season above a replacement-level QB.
Career Profile
Pick #118 (Rd 5) · GNB · 1993 · +33 vs expected KV-H
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Ranked #380 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.
Reached 36% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.
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%.
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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.
Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).
Passing
College stats are not imported for this profile yet.
StatVault has the verified college attribution (Washington), 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.
Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.
Mark opened the Jacksonville Jaguars QB lineage the corpus knows, and handed it to David Garrard (2002–2010).
Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).
Last recorded season with NYJ
Joined NYJ (from NO)
Joined NO (from WAS)
Joined WAS (from JAX)
Joined JAX (from GB)
Joined GB (from GNB)
Drafted by GNB — Round 5, Pick 118
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Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 12-season peers. See all →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2,168 | 166.8 | 3,509+1,341 | 206.4 |
| 1996 | 4,367 | 272.9 | 4,714+347 | 277.3 |
| 1997 | 3,281 | 234.4 | 4,265+984 | 250.9 |
| 1998 | 2,601 | 200.1 | 3,857+1,256 | 226.9 |
| 1999 | 3,060 | 204 | 3,874+814 | 227.9 |
| 2000 | 3,640 | 227.5 | 4,116+476 | 242.1 |
| 2001 | 3,309 | 220.6 | 3,997+688 | 235.1 |
| 2002 | 2,788 | 185.9 | 3,456+668 | 203.3 |
| 2004 | 1,194 | 132.7 | 2,709+1,515 | 159.3 |
| 2005 | 3,050 | 190.6 | 3,559+509 | 209.3 |
| 2006 | 1,789 | 178.9 | 3,394+1,605 | 199.7 |
| 2009 | 102 | 25.5 | 1,239+1,137 | 72.9 |
Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), nflverse:injuries, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), wikipedia:college-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), espn.com:stats-api (facts-only reference), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026
Gardner Minshew
QB
86% match
1993 Draft ClassmatesFull class →
Pre-1999 players have bio + draft data but counting stats are not available from any freely-licensed source. Players with ★ Career Only see verified career aggregates from nflverse draft_picks.
Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average QBs aging curve. Group peak age: 24. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).
Rushing
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Mark inherited the Washington Commanders QB room from Brad Johnson (1999–2000), and handed it to Jason Campbell (2006–2009).
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.
Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 16 seasons.
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Calibrated Hall-of-Fame probability — fit against actual enshrinement. See all →
What carries the case
Monitor score 41.8 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).
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Statistical profile across 5 dimensions
Best single season, projected to Passing Yards in a modern 17-game schedule. See all →
This player carries the statistical signature of a Hall-of-Fame candidate whose career was cut short by injury or circumstance. The gap between their ceiling and actual production is quantified below.
Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 18 seasons (1994–2011) — a true nomad. The crest trail: