Shelby Harris is a career quality starter — a pass rusher whose body of work places Harris in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Harris's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.
Reached 14% of the all-time Sacks leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.
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: 93%.
Career Value · VORP
72 career value over replacement — #1589 all-time of 4,649. 8/season above a replacement-level EDGE.
Pick #235 (Rd 7) · LV · 2014 · +45.4 vs expected KV-H
Fan Rating
Rate Shelby Harris — All-Time
Explore More
Similar Players
StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.
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.
Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within edge rushers, shrinkage-regularized so small samples don't spike, over the NFL snap-count era (2012+).
Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average edge rushers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).
Defense
Snap Counts (2012–present)
Proprietary StatVault Metrics
College stats are not imported for this profile yet.
StatVault has the verified college attribution (Illinois State; Wisconsin), but no parsed college box-score table is present in this profile artifact. The section stays here so every profile has a consistent college-stats landing point without fabricating unavailable rows.
Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.
Shelby inherited the Denver Broncos DL room from DeMarcus Walker (2017–2020), and handed it to Mike Purcell (2019–2023).
Shelby inherited the Cleveland Browns DL room from Za'Darius Smith (2023–2024), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.
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.
Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).
Last recorded season with CLE
Joined CLE (from SEA)
Joined SEA (from DEN)
Joined DEN (from OAK)
Drafted by LV — Round 7, Pick 235
Joined OAK (from LV)
From nflverse weekly injury reports · coverage begins 2009.
| Season | Team | Games Out | Designations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | CLE | 1 | W16Out· Elbow |
| 2022 | SEA | 1 | W3Out· Glute / Not injury related - personal matterW6Questionable· HipW19Questionable· Knee |
| 2021 | DEN | 0 | W4Questionable· Wrist / IllnessW10Questionable· IllnessW12Questionable· AnkleW13Questionable· AnkleW14Questionable· AnkleW15Questionable· AnkleW16Questionable· AnkleW17Questionable· AnkleW18Questionable· Ankle / Illness |
| 2019 | DEN | 0 | W13Questionable· Ankle |
| 2015 | OAK | 0 | W14Questionable· Ankle |
StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →
Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 9-season peers. See all →
Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 11 seasons.
Composite score across availability, IR frequency, and injury severity. See all →
Sacks 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 Sacks | Sacks/G | → 2025 Sacks | → 2025 /G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 6+0.5 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2+0.5 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 4+1.5 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 6 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0.2 | 3+1 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2+0.5 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2+0.5 | 0.1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 |
Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 7/31/2026
Darius Philon
DT
89% match
2014 Draft ClassmatesFull class →
Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 12 seasons (2014–2025) — a true nomad. The crest trail: