Dan Marino is a Hall of Fame quarterback whose career earned one of the highest career value scores of 92 in the Knox value model. Marino's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.

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Dan Marino

★ HALL OF FAME9× Pro Bowl3× All-Pro9th youngest · 4,000 Passing Yards Top 1% all-time QBsIron Legend⚡ Breakout · 1994 📉 Fades · -11% playoffs

Height6'4"

Weight228 lb

BornSep 15, 1961

All-Time Rank & Honors

career ranks, postseason ranks, awards, title context

Regular-season all-time ranks

8thPassing Touchdowns·420 10thPassing Yards·61,291 yds

Postseason all-time ranks

10thPlayoff Passing Yards·4,510 yds 10thPlayoff Passing Touchdowns·32

Career Value · VORP

563 career value over replacement — #6 all-time of 4,649. 33.1/season above a replacement-level QB.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #27 (Rd 1) · MIA · 1983 · +37.2 vs expected KV-H

92actual

54.8 expected · Δ+37.2

💔+61.1 stolen VORP·1.87 szns lost

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Career Value · VORP

VORP 563 · #6 · All-Time

Worth 563 points of value above a freely-available replacement quarterback — top 1% of all 4,649 ranked at the position. 16 of 17 seasons cleared the replacement bar, by +35.2 on average.See board →

Seasons above replacement

16 cleared

Beat replacement (adds to VORP) Below it — adds 0, never a debit

Replacement

the KC-H bar

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Seasons over

cleared the bar

+35.2

Avg surplus

peak +50

16 seasons × ~35.2 surplus ≈ VORP 563

Dan Marino

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Career Value · VORP