Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Receiving | Rushing | Defense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Ctch% | Y/R | Y/Tgt | AirYd/T | 1D | Att | Yds | TD | Y/A | TD% | 1D | 1D% | Fmb | Tkl | Solo | Ast | TFL | QBHits | Sk | Dis | Int | PD | FF | FR | TD | Sfty | |||||
| 1984 | 23 | ATL | 16 | — | — | 26 | 244 | 0 | — | 9.4 | — | — | — | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | ATL | 16 | — | — | 10 | 37 | 0 | — | 3.7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | NO | 8 | — | — | 2 | 11 | 0 | — | 5.5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | NO | 7 | — | — | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 5.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 47 | — | — | 39 | 297 | 0 | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | |
Career Value · VORP
23 career value over replacement — #2999 all-time of 4,695. 5.8/season above a replacement-level TE.
Pick #132 (Rd 5) · ATL · 1984 · +17.5 vs expected KV-H
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4 seasons · peak 0.9 in 1984
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NFL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.1 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 1984 · +0.1 wins
Latest season · 1988 · −0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NFL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
#297 of 698 all-time TEs by KV-H
A solid career by KV-H: a remarkably steady profile that scores 48 of 100, era-normalized against rec yds/g peers across 4 scored seasons, with a short career trimming the score.
Blend 52 × longevity 0.93 = KV-H 48· confidence 97%
Season-by-season quality (era-relative rec yds/g)
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