Mark Word is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Word in the top half of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Word's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
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| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | |||||
| 2002 | 26–27 | CLE | 10 | — | 20 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 27–28 | CLE | 14 | — | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 24 | — | 32 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 12.0 | 22.0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | — | 0 | 0 | |
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1999–2001: no recorded NFL regular-season production. StatVault's source covers these seasons in full, so this is an absence of production, not of data.
A strong starter career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 58 of 100, era-normalized against sacks/g peers across 2 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 72.8 × longevity 0.79 = KV-H 58· confidence 100%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative sacks/g)
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