Matt Stevens is a career quality starter — a defensive back whose body of work places Stevens in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Stevens's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | VAL | Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | ||||||
| 1999 | 26 | WAS | 13 | — | 4.7 | 33 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 27 | WAS | 13 | — | 0.6 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 28 | NE | 14 | — | 0.0 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 29 | HOU | 16 | — | 0.0 | 77 | 54 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 30 | HOU | 8 | — | 0.6 | 27 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 64 | — | 5.9 | 202 | 143 | 59 | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
Career Value · VORP
46 career value over replacement — #2209 all-time of 4,695. 9.2/season above a replacement-level S.
Pick #87 (Rd 3) · BUF · 1996 · +21.5 vs expected KV-H
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1996–1998: these seasons predate StatVault's committed NFL season-grid source (1999+), so they are recorded as a known gap rather than shown as zero.
5 seasons · peak 4.7 in 1999
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.
0.5 career wins over 5 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 1999 · +0.4 wins
0.4 of WAS's 10 wins (4%)
Latest season · 2003 · +0.0 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. Team wins are the club's actual regular-season wins; a traded season, or one whose club record is missing, shows no share.
#332 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H
A strong starter career by KV-H: a well-rounded profile that scores 59 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 5 scored seasons.
Blend 59.6 × longevity 1 = KV-H 59· confidence 100%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative int/g)
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