Charlie Garner ranks in the all-time elite tier for running backs — a career that places Garner in the top 10% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Garner a career score of 72, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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Charlie Garner

1× Pro BowlTop 8% all-time RBsIron Man🏆 Clutch · +17% playoffs Team Carrier · #120

Height5'10"

Weight190 lb

BornFeb 13, 1972

Age54

CollegeTennessee; Scottsdale CC

Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #120 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

3 qualifying seasons

1999 SF·4 team wins#8

Rushing Yards · 1,200 · score 54

2000 SF·6 team wins#16

Rushing Yards · 1,115 · score 10

2000 SF

Career Value · VORP

182 career value over replacement — #461 all-time of 4,695. 18.2/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

2 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #42 (Rd 2) · PHI · 1994 · +21.3 vs expected KV-H

72actual

50.7 expected · Δ+21.3

💔+32 stolen VORP·1.76 szns lost

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Rushing Touchdowns · 7 · score 9

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 38% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

38% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader38

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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: 93%.

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.

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

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average RBs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Playoff vs Regular Season

🏆 Playoff Performer

Yards / Carry: 4.6 regular season → 5.4 playoffs (2 playoff seasons)

+17%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

10,744

7,041 rush · 3,703 recv

Total TDs

39 rush · 12 recv

Total Touches

1,944

1,527 carries · 417 rec

Yds / Touch

5.5

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones8

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

19961K career rushing yards
19993K career rushing yards
19991K career receiving yards
1999100 career receptions
200025 career rushing TDs
20015K career rushing yards
2001250 career receptions
20023K career receiving yards

Understanding These Stats

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.

Postseason Career

5 playoff games

Rushing

Att67Yds361TD1Y/A5.4TD%1.51D161D%23.9

Receiving

Tgt37Rec24Yds191TD1Ctch%64.9%Y/R8.0Y/Tgt5.21D6

College Stats

Tennessee; Scottsdale CCCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Tennessee; Scottsdale CC), 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.

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Charlie inherited the Las Vegas Raiders RB room from Bo Jackson (1987–1990), and handed it to Darren McFadden (2008–2014).

Mark van Eeghen 1974–1981Marcus Allen 1982–1992Bo Jackson 1987–1990Charlie Garner 2001–2003Darren McFadden 2008–2014

Charlie inherited the San Francisco 49ers RB room from Garrison Hearst (1997–2003), and handed it to Frank Gore (2005–2014).

Joe Perry 1948–1963Hugh McElhenny 1952–1960Delvin Williams 1974–1977Earl Cooper 1980–1985Roger Craig 1983–1990Tom Rathman 1986–1993Ricky Watters 1992–1994William Floyd 1994–1997

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

2004team change
Joined TB (from OAK)
2004final season
Last recorded season with TB
2001team change
Joined OAK (from SF)
1999team change
Joined SF (from PHI)
1994draft
Drafted by PHI — Round 2, Pick 42

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'10" / 190 lb

Frame

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 76

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

B1994

B1995

B1996

B1997

B1998

A1999

B+2000

B2001

B+2002

B2003

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 11 seasons.

84%

19942004

1994 · cause not documented · 63%1998 · cause not documented · 63%2004 · cause not documented · 19%

Durability IQ

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

Durable

Era Translator

Rush 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 Rush Yds	Rush Yds/G	→ 2025 Rush Yds	→ 2025 /G
1994	399	39.9	1,010+611	59.4
1995	588	39.2	983+395	57.8
1996	346	23.1	709+363	41.7
1997	547	34.2	875+328	51.5
1998	381	38.1	927+546	54.6
1999	1,200	75	1,420+220	83.5
2000	1,115	69.7	1,215+100	71.5
2001	839	52.4	925+86	54.4
2002	962	60.1	991+29	58.3
2003	553	39.5	689+136	40.5

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), 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 8/31/2026

Career Geography

Journeyman · 4 crestsLeague board →

Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 11 seasons (1994–2004) — a true nomad. The crest trail:

PHI 1994–1998 SF 1999–2000 LV 2001–2003 TB 2004

Charlie Garner 1999–2000

Charlie Garner

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

From Scrimmage · Career

Postseason Career

Rushing

Receiving

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

1994 Draft Class· this player went #42

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

Career Geography