Amari Cooper is one of the most consistent receivers of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Cooper delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#39Most consistent careersof 40

Streaks3 straight · 1,000 receiving yards · 2018–20

WRBUF#18ACT

Amari Cooper

5× Pro BowlTop 4% all-time WRsFranchise Cornerstone📉 Fades · -21% playoffs ⚙️ Sustained Machine · 2023 Team Carrier · #304

Career Value · VORP

244 career value over replacement — #243 all-time of 4,695. 24.4/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

5 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Compiler36% in top 3 yrs Mr. ReliableCV 0.22

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #4 (Rd 1) · LV · 2015 · +12.7 vs expected KV-H

76actual

63.3 expected · Δ+12.7

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #304 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

2 qualifying seasons

2020 DAL·6 team wins#11

Receptions · 92 · score 15

2020 DAL·6 team wins#14

Receiving Yards · 1,114 · score 12

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 46% of the all-time Receptions leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

46% of the all-time Receptions leader46

3 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader100

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leader at 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: 94%.

Encyclopedia Coverage6/8 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)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

Where this data comes from

Modern-era stats (1999+) come from nflverse's open data releases. Pre-1999 seasons are backfilled additively from Wikipedia and NFL.com's own official season pages — never from rights-restricted sources.

nflverse — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution
NFL.com — Official league site; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Per-Snap Impact

Wide Receivers · proprietary · 2012+

Excellent

SIS

Yards / snap:1.185 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap1.185Touch rate0.138EPA/snap0Snap share81.4%Off snaps8,513Elite · ConsistentCV 0.13

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within wide receivers, shrinkage-regularized so small samples don't spike, over the NFL snap-count era (2012+).

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Combine · 2015

Percentiles compare each raw measurement against position peers, the full combine pool, and the same draft class where enough samples exist.

WR · 2015 class

4.42s

40-Yard

Strong · 76th pct

Pos 76thAll 91thClass Pos 74thClass All 95th

33"

Vertical

Low · 19th pct

Pos 19thAll 46thClass Pos 12thClass All 41th

120"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

📉 Regular Season Player

Yards / Reception: 14.1 regular season → 11.1 playoffs (5 playoff seasons)

-21%

vs reg season

Career Milestones10

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

20151K career receiving yards
2016100 career receptions
20183K career receiving yards
2018250 career receptions
201825 career receiving TDs
20195K career receiving yards

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.

Postseason Career

8 playoff games

Rushing

Att1

Receiving

Tgt51Rec31Yds345TD2Ctch%60.8%Y/R11.1Y/Tgt6.8

College Stats

AlabamaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Alabama), 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.

Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Jamize OlawaleRB5y Derek CarrQB4y Zack MartinG4y DeMarcus LawrenceLB4y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Amari inherited the Dallas Cowboys WR room from Terrance Williams (2013–2018), and handed it to Michael Gallup (2018–2023).

Bob Hayes 1965–1974Golden Richards 1973–1978Drew Pearson 1973–1983Butch Johnson 1976–1983Kelvin Martin 1987–1996Michael Irvin

Similar Players

Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).

Movementderived from season history

2024team change
Joined BUF (from CLE)
2024final season
Last recorded season with BUF
2022team change
Joined CLE (from DAL)
2018team change
Joined DAL (from OAK)
2015draft
Drafted by LV — Round 1, Pick 4
2015team change
Joined OAK (from LV)

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 210 lb

Frame

211 lb at 4.42s

Size-speed

33" vert / 120" broad

Explosion

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 10-season peers. See all →

peak 79

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

B+2015

B+2016

B2017

B+2018

B+2019

B+2020

B2021

B+2022

A2023

C+2024

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 10 seasons.

94%

Era Translator

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

Season	Actual Rec Yds	Rec Yds/G	→ 2025 Rec Yds	→ 2025 /G
2015	1,082	67.6	1,046-36	61.5
2016	1,153	72.1	1,136-17	66.8
2017	680	48.6	736+56	43.3
2018	1,005	67	1,040+35	61.2
2019	1,189	74.3	1,213+24	71.4
2020	1,114	69.6	1,110-4	65.3
2021	865	57.7	908+43	53.4
2022	1,160	68.2	1,090-70	64.1
2023	1,250	83.3	1,377+127	81
2024	547	42.1	693+146	40.8

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.

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.