Drew Brees is a Hall of Fame quarterback whose career earned one of the highest career value scores of 94 in the Knox value model. Brees led his position in a major category 10 times — the definition of era-defining dominance.

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Drew Brees

★ HALL OF FAME13× Pro Bowl1× All-ProTop 0% all-time QBsIron Legend🎯 Near-Miss Club 🏟️ Los Angeles Chargers Icon 👑 4× #1 Quarterback · 2006–2016 ⚡ Breakout · 2002

Height6'0"

Weight209 lb

BornJan 15, 1979

Age47

CollegePurdue See College Stats

ConferenceBig Ten

Rookie yr2001

Draft2001 · Rd 2, Pick 32 · LAC

All-Time Standing

how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position

Elite

of 100

Reached 90% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a elite all-time profile at the position.

90% of the all-time Passing Yards leader90

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leaderat this position. Built only from visible encyclopedia data — career production vs. the all-time leader, plus efficiency (EPA) and comparable-player confidence — so it's a transparent context score, not a subjective rating. Tiers: Elite ≥ 85 · Strong ≥ 65 · Solid ≥ 45 · Depth < 45. Comparable-player confidence: 86%.

Encyclopedia Coverage

Career Value · VORP

692 career value over replacement — #2 all-time of 4,649. 36.4/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

Led league 10×28 top-10 Compiler20% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.22

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #32 (Rd 2) · LAC · 2001 · +39.2 vs expected KV-H

94actual

54.8 expected · Δ+39.2

💔+41 stolen VORP·1.14 szns lost

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Bio & DraftBirth date, height/weight, draft round/pick, college — sourced from nflverse players.csv (CC-BY 4.0). Covers all NFL eras.

Season Stats (1999–present)Week-by-week box scores aggregated to season totals: passing, rushing, receiving, defense. Source: nflverse player_stats. Counting stats are exact; rates are derived.

Advanced (EPA, 1999–present)Not available for this player

Snap Counts (2012–present)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

Defensive StatsNot available for this player

College StatsCollege attribution is present, but this profile artifact does not yet carry a parsed college stat table.

NFL Combine / Pro Day40-yard dash, vertical, broad jump, 3-cone, shuttle, bench press. Source: nflverse combine.csv.

Proprietary LayersKV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — era-normalized career rating 0–100 calibrated within position group (1999+ coverage). SIS (Snap Impact Score, 2012+) — per-snap production z-scored within position. VORP — value over replacement player. Durability IQ — games-played percentile adjusted for era.

Pre-1999 players have bio + draft data but counting stats are not available from any freely-licensed source. Players with ★ Career Only see verified career aggregates from nflverse draft_picks.

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Rushing

Att — Rushing attempts (carries).

Yds — Rushing yards.

TD — Rushing touchdowns.

Y/A — Yards per carry — rushing yards ÷ carries. The core rushing efficiency rate; 4.5+ is solid, 5+ is elite.

TD% — Touchdown rate per carry (TDs ÷ carries × 100) — measures scoring efficiency per touch independent of volume. Red-zone workhorses lead here.

1D — First downs gained on rushing plays.

1D% — First-down conversion rate (first downs ÷ carries × 100) — how often a carry moves the chains. Top RBs convert on 25%+ of attempts.

Fmb — Rushing fumbles lost — the key ball-security stat for running backs. Below 1 per season is elite.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

Snap Counts (2012–present)

Off / Off% — Offensive snaps played and share of team total. The most reliable usage metric for skill positions and OL.

Def / Def% — Defensive snaps played and share of team total.

ST / ST% — Special-teams snaps played and share of team total.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

KV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — Era-normalized career rating 0–100 within position group, calibrated so a 50 = average starter and 90+ = all-time great. Covers 1999–present. Built on a 5-year IQR/robust-std era window.

SIS (Snap Impact Score) — Per-snap production z-scored within position group and era (2012+). Measures how much a player produced per opportunity, not raw volume.

VORP (Value Over Replacement) — Sum of max(0, season KV-H − positional replacement level) across a career. Measures career value above the minimum-roster baseline at each position.

Durability IQ — 0–100 score reflecting how many games a player played relative to peers at the same position in the same era. Adjusts for injury-shortened seasons.

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Drew inherited the New Orleans Saints QB room from Aaron Brooks (2000–2005), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Jim Everett 1994–1996Aaron Brooks 2000–2005Drew Brees 2006–2020

Drew inherited the Los Angeles Chargers QB room from Stan Humphries (1992–1997), and handed it to Philip Rivers (2004–2019).

Ed Luther 1980–1984Stan Humphries 1992–1997Drew Brees 2001–2005Philip Rivers 2004–2019Justin Herbert 2020–2025

The room is reconstructed from arrival order among durable members (≥4 seasons with the club) at the player’s position group — a lineage by arrival, not a week-by-week depth chart. Distinct from the league-wide positional GOAT torch.

Season	Team	Games Out	Designations
2019	NO	5	W3Out· right ThumbW4Out· right ThumbW5Out· right ThumbW6Out· right ThumbW7Out· right ThumbW8Questionable· right Thumb
2015	NO	1	W3Out· right ShoulderW16Questionable· Foot

Knox

StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →

Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 19-season peers. See all →

peak 92

Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season

B2002

C2003

B2004

B2005

B+2006

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A2008

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A+2011

A2012

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Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 20 seasons.

94%

Durability IQ

Composite score across availability, IR frequency, and injury severity. See all →

Iron

Canton Monitor · HOF

Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →

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Enshrined

What carries the case

League Leads 23.6%Pro Bowls 23%Era Quality (KV-H) 20.4%Longevity 14.2%All-Time Ranks 11.8%All-Pro 7.1%

Monitor score 169.6 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity96

Peak92

Accolades76

Consistency78

Per-Snap50

Historical Rank · Era-Adjusted

Best single season, projected to Passing Yards in a modern 17-game schedule. See all →

2011 · QB · all-time

Era Translator

Pass Yds translated to the 2025NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Pass Yds	Pass Yds/G	→ 2025 Pass Yds	→ 2025 /G
2002	3,284	205.3	3,722+438	218.9
2003	2,108	191.6	3,474+1,366	204.4
2004	3,159	210.6	3,798+639	223.4
2005	3,576	223.5	3,992+416	234.8
2006	4,424	276.5	4,665+241	274.4
2007	4,428	276.8	4,650+222	273.5
2008	5,069	316.8	5,013-56	294.9
2009	4,388	292.5	4,732+344	278.4
2010	4,620	288.8	4,639+19	272.9
2011	5,535	345.9	5,364-171	315.5
2012	5,177	323.6	5,078-99	298.7
2013	5,162	322.6	4,961-201	291.8
2014	4,952	309.5	4,765-187	280.3
2015	4,870	324.7	4,955+85	291.5
2016	5,208	325.5	4,887-321	287.5
2017	4,334	270.9	4,103-231	241.3
2018	3,992	266.1	4,045+53	238
2019	2,979	270.8	4,169+1,190	245.3
2020	2,942	245.2	3,827+885	225.1

Drew Brees

All-Time Standing

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2001

Postseason Career

Passing

Rushing

Snap Counts

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

2001 Draft Class· this player went #32

Franchise Succession

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Athletic & Unique Profile

Injury History

Knox

Era Translator