Zach Thomas is a Hall of Fame linebacker whose career earned one of the highest career value scores of 95 in the Knox value model. Thomas's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.
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
Defense
Tkl
Solo
Ast
TFL
QBHits
Sk
Dis
Int
PD
FF
FR
TD
Sfty
1996
23
MIA
16
—
1.1
—
—
—
—
—
2.0
2.0
—
—
—
—
—
—
1997
24
MIA
15
—
0.0
—
—
—
—
—
0.5
0.5
—
—
—
—
—
—
1998
25
MIA
16
—
1.2
—
—
—
—
—
2.0
2.0
—
—
—
—
—
—
1999
26
MIA
16
—
1.0
119
71
48
13
1
1.0
15.0
1
9
1
—
0
0
2000
27
MIA
10
—
1.7
81
42
39
8
2
1.5
11.5
1
1
0
1
0
0
2001
28
MIA
15
—
4.3
135
75
60
4
2
3.0
9.0
2
4
2
—
1
0
2002
29
MIA
16
—
0.3
139
83
56
4
1
0.5
5.5
1
4
0
1
0
0
2003
30
MIA
15
—
4.2
142
74
68
0
0
1.0
1.0
3
10
1
2
0
0
2004
31
MIA
13
—
0.5
131
71
60
0
0
2.0
2.0
0
4
0
—
0
0
2005
32
MIA
14
—
1.7
142
87
55
0
0
2.0
2.0
1
3
4
1
0
0
2006
33
MIA
16
—
3.3
142
80
62
0
3
3.0
6.0
1
8
2
—
0
0
2007
34
MIA
5
—
0.2
39
29
10
0
1
1.0
2.0
0
2
0
—
0
0
2008
35
DAL
16
—
0.0
85
56
29
4
1
1.0
6.0
0
3
0
1
0
0
Career
—
183
—
19.5
1,155
668
487
33
11
20.5
64.5
10
48
10
6
1
0
Career arc · VAL by season
13 seasons · peak 4.3 in 2001
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
1.5 career wins over 13 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.
