Steve Smith is a career quality starter — a receiver 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
VAL
Receiving
Tgt
Rec
Yds
TD
Ctch%
Y/R
Y/Tgt
AirYd/T
1D
2007
22
NYG
4
—
0.0
8
8
63
0
100.0%
7.9
7.9
—
4
2008
23
NYG
16
—
3.5
57
57
574
1
100.0%
10.1
10.1
—
35
2009
24
NYG
16
—
12.3
157
107
1,220
7
68.2%
11.4
7.8
—
61
2010
25
NYG
9
—
4.8
75
48
529
3
64.0%
11.0
7.1
—
29
2011
26
PHI
5
—
0.9
20
11
124
1
55.0%
11.3
6.2
—
5
2012
27
STL
9
—
0.0
25
14
131
0
56.0%
9.4
5.2
—
7
Career
—
59
—
21.5
342
245
2,641
12
71.6%
10.8
7.7
—
141
Career arc · VAL by season
6 seasons · peak 12.3 in 2009
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
1.7 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
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.
Peak-aligned view: center line is each player's best Rec Yds season; left/right show build-up, staying power, and decline. Comparison set uses same-position, overlapping-era comps when available.
