Xavien Howard NFL Stats, Career Profile & VAL | StatVault
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Xavien Howard ranks in the all-time elite tier for defensive backs — a career that places Howard in the top 3% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Howard a career score of 81, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.
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+)
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
MIA
7
—
40
29
11
1
0
0.0
1.0
0
6
1
—
0
0
—
0.0%
527
95.9%
4
1.9%
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
2017
24
MIA
16
—
44
38
6
3
1
1.0
5.0
4
13
0
—
1
0
—
0.0%
1,017
97.3%
27
6.5%
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
2018
25
MIA
12
—
35
25
10
1
0
0.0
1.0
7
12
0
1
0
0
—
0.0%
803
99.2%
29
9.3%
63
33
0.5
61.2
14.4
0
0
0
2
6
0.1
2019
26
MIA
5
—
17
12
5
0
0
0.0
0.0
1
4
0
—
0
0
—
0.0%
322
89.8%
29
21.2%
26
17
0.7
117.0
11.0
0
0
0
1
3
0.1
2020
27
MIA
16
—
46
35
11
1
0
0.0
1.0
10
20
1
—
0
0
—
0.0%
936
90.1%
2
0.4%
101
52
0.5
48.3
12.8
1
1
0
2
6
0.1
2021
28
MIA
16
—
46
35
11
0
1
1.0
2.0
5
16
2
2
2
0
—
0.0%
1,026
96.6%
5
1.3%
93
49
0.5
72.6
10.0
2
0
1
8
6
0.1
2022
29
MIA
15
—
39
29
10
1
0
0.0
1.0
1
12
0
2
1
0
—
0.0%
979
95.6%
—
0.0%
84
50
0.6
101.2
11.2
0
0
0
3
7
0.1
2023
30
MIA
13
—
42
33
9
1
1
0.0
2.0
1
12
0
—
0
0
—
0.0%
745
87.4%
2
0.5%
62
39
0.6
81.3
11.3
1
0
1
3
6
0.1
2025
32
IND
4
—
11
7
4
0
0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
—
0
0
—
0.0%
211
83.3%
2
2.0%
21
14
0.7
124.3
9.4
0
0
0
0
1
0.1
Career
—
104
—
320
243
77
8
3
2.0
13.0
29
95
4
5
4
0
—
0.0%
6,566
93.8%
100
3.6%
450
254
—
—
—
4
1
2
19
35
—
Career arc · VAL by season
9 seasons · peak 14.6 in 2020
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
3.2 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2020 · +1.1 wins
Defence+1.1
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.
Source: nflverse (CC-BY 4.0) · 2016–2026 · 4 games
Splits
4 games · 2025
Folded from the per-game logs on file. Home/away, result, month and division come from the NFL schedule feed; where a game has no schedule row those dimensions leave it out rather than guess, and the count is shown.
Home / Away2 rows
Home / Away
G
Home
2
Away
2
Wins / Losses2 rows
Wins / Losses
G
Wins
3
Losses
1
Regular season / Postseason1 row
KV-H Anatomy
KV-H 81 · Great
A great career by KV-H: a peak-driven profile that scores 81 of 100, era-normalized against int/g peers across 8 scored seasons.
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.
