Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | Snap Counts | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | Off | Off% | Def | Def% | ST | ST% | |||||
| 2008 | 23 | MIA | 14 | — | 22 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | MIA | 14 | — | 26 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 6.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | MIA | 2 | — | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | MIA | 6 | — | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | GB | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | WAS | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 41 | 19.3% | 6 | 6.7% |
| Career | — | 41 | — | 59 | 41 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 3.5 | 15.5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 0.0% | 41 | 19.3% | 6 | 6.7% | |
Career Value · VORP
6 career value over replacement — #3937 all-time of 4,695. 2/season above a replacement-level EDGE.
Pick #32 (Rd 2) · MIA · 2008 · -13.8 vs expected KV-H
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3 seasons · peak 1.3 in 2008
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.
0.1 career wins over 3 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2008 · +0.1 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.
#1,058 of 1,595 all-time pass rushers by KV-H
A solid career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 41 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 3 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 47.4 × longevity 0.86 = KV-H 41· confidence 92%
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