P.J. Williams is a career quality starter — a defensive back whose body of work places Williams in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Williams's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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P.J. Williams

Top 28% all-time defensive backsReliable Starter📈 Late Developer · 2021

Height6'0"

Weight196 lb

BornJun 1, 1993

Age33

CollegeFlorida State See College Stats

Conference

Combined Season Grid

Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.

3 categories · One row per season · Scroll for all statistics

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Defense													Snap Counts						Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)
Season	Age	Team	G	GS	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%
2016	23	NO	2	—	7	5	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	2	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	82	55.5%	—	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2017	24	NO	16	—	47	34	13	1	0	0.0	1.0	2	9	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	632	58.9%	87	18.7%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2018	25	NO	15	—	49	40	9	2	2	1.0	5.0	1	9	2	—	1	0	—	0.0%	693	71.7%	27	6.5%	79	50	0.6	113.1	8.3	2	0	1	13	7	0.1
2019	26	NO	14	—	40	32	8	3	1	1.0	5.0	1	4	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	798	83.9%	59	15.2%	64	42	0.7	110.4	9.3	2	1	0	35	11	0.2
2020	27	NO	15	—	37	29	8	0	0	0.0	0.0	1	2	0	2	0	0	—	0.0%	499	50.6%	111	26.3%	34	22	0.6	90.6	12.7	0	0	0	2	8	0.2
2021	28	NO	16	—	41	35	6	3	4	2.0	9.0	3	5	1	—	1	0	—	0.0%	545	50.8%	70	16.3%	39	30	0.8	60.7	7.0	5	1	2	14	11	0.2
2022	29	NO	11	—	25	16	9	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	2	0	—	0	0	—	0.0%	297	38.5%	49	15.7%	12	9	0.8	156.2	9.0	0	0	0	1	1	0.0
Career		—	89	—	246	191	55	9	7	4.0	20.0	8	33	3	2	2	0	—	0.0%	3,546	59.5%	403	16.2%	228	153	—	—	—	9	2	3	65	38	—

Career Value · VORP

59 career value over replacement — #1893 all-time of 4,695. 9.8/season above a replacement-level S.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #78 (Rd 3) · NO · 2015 · +22.4 vs expected KV-H

60actual

37.6 expected · Δ+22.4

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No production recorded2015

2015: no recorded NFL regular-season production. StatVault's source covers these seasons in full, so this is an absence of production, not of data.

Career arc · VAL by season

6 seasons · peak 5.4 in 2021

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

0.9 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL

Best season · 2021 · +0.4 wins

Defence+0.4

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.

Position percentile · DB

#310 of 1,089 all-time defensive backs by KV-H

072th percentile100

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Defense

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tkl	Solo	Ast	TFL	QBHits	Sk	Dis	Int	PD	FF	FR	TD	VAL
2016	23	NO	2	—	7	5	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	2	0	—	0	—
2017	24	NO	13	9*	47	34	13	1	0	0.0	1.0	2	9	0	—	0	2.3
2018	25	NO	14	11*	49	40	9	2	2	1.0	5.0	1	9	2	—	1	1.8
2019	26	NO	14	12*	40	32	8	3	1	1.0	5.0	1	4	0	—	0	1.3
2020	27	NO	13	8*	37	29	8	0	0	0.0	0.0	1	2	0	2	0	0.6
2021	28	NO	15	8*	41	35	6	3	4	2.0	9.0	3	5	1	—	1	5.4
2022	29	NO	8	0*	25	16	9	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	2	0	—	0	0
Career			79		246	191	55	9	7	4.0	20.0	8	33	3	2	2	11.4

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Snap Counts

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Off	Off%	Def	Def%	ST	ST%
2016	23	NO	2	—	—	0.0%	82	55.5%	—	0.0%
2017	24	NO	16	9*	—	0.0%	632	58.9%	87	18.7%
2018	25	NO	15	11*	—	0.0%	693	71.7%	27	6.5%
2019	26	NO	14	12*	—	0.0%	798	83.9%	59	15.2%
2020	27	NO	15	8*	—	0.0%	499	50.6%	111	26.3%
2021	28	NO	16	8*	—	0.0%	545	50.8%	70	16.3%
2022	29	NO	11	0*	—	0.0%	297	38.5%	49	15.7%
Career			89		—	0.0%	3,546	59.5%	403	16.2%

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

Advanced Defense & Coverage (2018+)

Season	Age	Team	G	GS	Tgt	Cmp	Cmp%	RateAll	ADOT	Prss	Hrry	QBKD	Bltz	MissTkl	Miss%
2018	25	NO	15	11*	79	50	0.6	113.1	8.3	2	0	1	13	7	0.1
2019	26	NO	14	12*	64	42	0.7	110.4	9.3	2	1	0	35	11	0.2
2020	27	NO	15	8*	34	22	0.6	90.6	12.7	0	0	0	2	8	0.2
2021	28	NO	16	8*	39	30	0.8	60.7	7.0	5	1	2	14	11	0.2
2022	29	NO	11	0*	12	9	0.8	156.2	9.0	0	0	0	1	1	0.0
Career			71	39*	228	153	—	—	—	9	2	3	65	38	—

* GS not available from free sources — SG* estimated from snap share (nflverse 2012+)

KV-H Anatomy

KV-H 60 · Strong Starter

A strong starter career by KV-H: a well-rounded profile that scores 60 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 6 scored seasons.

Sustained

career value

×.6

Peak

best 3 seasons

×.4

×1

Longevity

career length

Blend 59.6 × longevity 1 = KV-H 60· confidence 100%

What builds the career mark of 58

On-field 41.7

Availability 16.3

On-field production Staying available

Season-by-season quality (era-relative int/g)

2017bestavg 572022

INTs career shape vs similar safeties

2017-2021

Peak-aligned view: center line is each player's best INTs season; left/right show build-up, staying power, and decline. Comparison set uses same-position, overlapping-era comps when available.