Ty Law is a Hall of Fame defensive back whose career earned a historically elite career value score of 87 in the Knox value model. Law's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.
Ranked #131 of 600 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.
Reached 24% of the all-time Interceptions leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.
Career Value · VORP
258 career value over replacement — #201 all-time of 4,649. 17.2/season above a replacement-level CB.
Career Profile
Pick #23 (Rd 1) · NE · 1995 · +31.3 vs expected KV-H
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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: 92%.
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Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average defensive backs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).
Defense
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College stats are not imported for this profile yet.
StatVault has the verified college attribution (Michigan), 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.
Ty inherited the New England Patriots DB room from Corwin Brown (1993–1996), and handed it to Willie Clay (1996–1998).
Ty inherited the New York Jets DB room from David Barrett (2004–2008), and handed it to Kerry Rhodes (2005–2009).
Ty inherited the Kansas City Chiefs DB room from Patrick Surtain (2005–2008), and handed it to Bernard Pollard (2006–2008).
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%).
Joined DEN (from NYJ)
Last recorded season with DEN
Joined NYJ (from KC)
Joined KC (from NYJ)
Joined NYJ (from NE)
Drafted by NE — Round 1, Pick 23
From nflverse weekly injury reports · coverage begins 2009.
| Season | Team | Games Out | Designations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | DEN | 0 | W15Questionable· HamstringW16Questionable· Hamstring |
StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →
Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 15-season peers. See all →
Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 15 seasons.
Composite score across availability, IR frequency, and injury severity. See all →
Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →
What carries the case
Monitor score 99.1 · 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
INT 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 INT | INT/G | → 2025 INT | → 2025 /G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 3 | 0.2 | 2-1 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0.2 | 2-1 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0.2 | 1-2 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0.6 | 7-2 | 0.4 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0.2 | 1-1 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0.1 | 1-1 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0.2 | 2-1 | 0.1 |
| 2002 | 4 | 0.3 | 3-1 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | 0.4 | 4-2 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0.2 | 2+1 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 10 | 0.6 | 7-3 | 0.4 |
| 2006 | 4 | 0.3 | 3-1 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0.1 | 1-1 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0.1 | 2+1 | 0.1 |
Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:injuries, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 7/31/2026
Marlon McCree
FS
90% match
1995 Draft ClassmatesFull class →
Famous Partnership
Willie McGinest
10 shared seasons · combined KV-H 1362
Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 15 seasons (1995–2009) — a true nomad. The crest trail: