Jeff Blake is a career quality starter — a quarterback whose body of work places Blake in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Blake's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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Jeff Blake

1× Pro BowlTop 18% all-time QBsElite PlaymakerTeam Carrier · #94

Height6'1"

Weight223 lb

BornDec 4, 1970

Age55

CollegeEast Carolina See College Stats

Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #94 of 600 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

4 qualifying seasons

1999 CIN·4 team wins#15

Passing Touchdowns · 15 · score 33

1999 CIN·4 team wins#16

Passing Yards · 2,630 · score 30

2003 ARI

Career Value · VORP

168 career value over replacement — #530 all-time of 4,649. 18.7/season above a replacement-level QB.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #166 (Rd 6) · NYJ · 1992 · +34.9 vs expected KV-H

59actual

24.1 expected · Δ+34.9

💔+87 stolen VORP·4.68 szns lost

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All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 24% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

24% of the all-time Passing Yards leader24

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

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: 85%.

Encyclopedia Coverage4/8 data layers

StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.

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)Not available for this player

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 DayNot available for this player

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.

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

Jeff inherited the Cincinnati Bengals QB room from David Klingler (1992–1995), and handed it to Jon Kitna (2001–2005).

Turk Schonert 1981–1989Boomer Esiason 1984–1997David Klingler 1992–1995Jeff Blake 1994–1999Jon Kitna 2001–2005Carson Palmer 2004–2010Andy Dalton 2011–2019Joe Burrow 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.

Movementderived from season history

2005team change
Joined CHI (from PHI)
2005final season
Last recorded season with CHI
2004team change
Joined PHI (from ARI)
2003team change
Joined ARI (from BAL)
2002team change
Joined BAL (from NO)
2000team change
Joined NO (from CIN)
1994team change
Joined CIN (from NYJ)
1992draft
Drafted by NYJ — Round 6, Pick 166

Knox

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Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 9-season peers. See all →

peak 64

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

C+1994

B+1995

B1996

C+1997

F1998

C+1999

C+2000

C+2002

C2003

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 13 seasons.

61%

19922005

1992 · backup · 3/16 G

1994 · cause not documented · 63%1997 · cause not documented · 69%1998 · cause not documented · 69%2000 · cause not documented · 69%2001 · cause not documented · 6%2002 · cause not documented · 63%2004 · cause not documented · 19%2005 · cause not documented · 13%

Durability IQ

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

Typical

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
1994	2,154	215.4	4,071+1,917	239.5
1995	3,822	238.9	4,286+464	252.1
1996	3,624	226.5	4,117+493	242.2
1997	2,125	193.2	3,772+1,647	221.9
1998	739	67.2	2,220+1,481	130.6
1999	2,630	187.9	3,669+1,039	215.8
2000	2,004	182.2	3,514+1,510	206.7
2002	2,084	208.4	3,765+1,681	221.5
2003	2,252	173.2	3,194+942	187.9

Jeff Blake

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Career Aging Trajectory

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1992 Draft Class· this player went #166

Franchise Succession

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Movementderived from season history

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