Mark Smith is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Smith in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Smith's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
1 categories · One row per season · Scroll for all statistics
Season
Age
Team
G
GS
Defense
Tkl
Solo
Ast
TFL
QBHits
Sk
Dis
Int
PD
FF
FR
TD
Sfty
1997
23
ARI
16
—
38
26
—
—
—
6.0
6.0
0
—
1
0
—
—
1998
24
ARI
14
—
72
52
—
—
—
9.0
9.0
0
—
1
1
—
—
1999
25
ARI
2
—
4
4
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
—
0
0
2000
26
ARI
12
—
20
13
7
7
3
3.0
13.0
0
0
0
—
0
0
2001
27
CLE
15
—
27
15
12
3
2
2.0
7.0
0
6
0
1
0
0
2002
28
CLE
2
—
2
2
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
—
0
0
Career
—
61
—
163
112
19
10
5
20.0
35.0
0
6
2
2
0
0
Career arc · VAL by season
4 seasons · peak 4.6 in 1998
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.
What he added · wins above replacement
0.6 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
A strong starter career by KV-H: a well-rounded profile that scores 61 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
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.
Peak-aligned view: center line is each player's best Sacks season; left/right show build-up, staying power, and decline. Comparison set uses same-position, overlapping-era comps when available.
