Curt Warner ranks in the all-time elite tier for running backs — a career that places Warner in the top 1% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Warner a career score of 86, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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Curt Warner

3× Pro BowlTop 1% all-time RBsAll-Time Great📊 Undervalued by voters 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1986

Height5'11"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

206 career value over replacement — #359 all-time of 4,695. 29.4/season above a replacement-level RB.

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #3 (Rd 1) · SEA · 1983 · +22.7 vs expected KV-H

86actual

63.3 expected · Δ+22.7

💔+49.4 stolen VORP·1.68 szns lost

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All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 37% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

37% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader37

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: 92%.

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.

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+).

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

8,311

6,844 rush · 1,467 recv

Total TDs

56 rush · 7 recv

Total Touches

1,891

1,698 carries · 193 rec

Yds / Touch

4.4

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones7

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

19831K career rushing yards
19863K career rushing yards
198625 career rushing TDs
1986100 career receptions
19875K career rushing yards
19871K 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.

College Stats

Penn StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Penn State), 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

Steve LargentWR7y Paul SkansiWR6y Eugene RobinsonFS5y Randall MorrisRB5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Curt inherited the Seattle Seahawks RB room from Dan Doornink (1979–1985), and handed it to John L. Williams (1986–1993).

Dan Doornink 1979–1985Curt Warner 1983–1989John L. Williams 1986–1993Ricky Watters 1998–2001Shaun Alexander 2000–2007Marshawn Lynch

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

Movementderived from season history

1990team change
Joined LAR (from SEA)
1990final season
Last recorded season with LAR
1983draft
Drafted by SEA — Round 1, Pick 3

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'11" / 205 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 7-season peers. See all →

peak 90

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

A1983

A1985

A+1986

A1987

A1988

B+1989

C1990

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 8 seasons.

79%

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
1983	1,449	90.6	1,712+263	100.7
1985	1,094	68.4	1,467+373	86.3
1986	1,481	92.6	1,994+513	117.3
1987	985	82.1	1,910+925	112.3
1988	1,025	64.1	1,561+536	91.8
1989	631	39.4	1,021+390	60.1
1990	139	19.9	618+479	36.4

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), wikipedia:college-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nfl.com:official-stats (games-played, facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.

Canton Monitor · HOF

Calibrated Hall-of-Fame probability — fit against actual enshrinement. See all →

14%

Longshot

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 64.9%Pro Bowls 15.8%Longevity 15.8%All-Time Ranks 3.5%

Monitor score 57 · 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

Overall

Longevity75

Peak90

Accolades8

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

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Curt Warner

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

From Scrimmage · Career

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

1983 Draft Class· this player went #3