Dalvin Cook packed more value into his peak seasons than almost any running back in NFL history — a comet career that burned brightest when it mattered most. His KV-H peak of 82 is historically rare; while longevity was not his calling card, the impact of his best seasons is undeniable.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#65Wasted talentof 67

Streaks4 straight · 1,000 rushing yards · 2019–22

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Dalvin Cook

4× Pro BowlTop 6% all-time RBsElite Playmaker📉 Fades · -29% playoffs

Height5'10"

Weight210 lb

BornAug 10, 1995

Career Value · VORP

135 career value over replacement — #764 all-time of 4,695. 19.3/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

6 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Comet62% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #41 (Rd 2) · MIN · 2017 · +24.3 vs expected KV-H

75actual

50.7 expected · Δ+24.3

💔+35.1 stolen VORP·1.82 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 34% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

34% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader34

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: 95%.

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.

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 Day40-yard dash, vertical, broad jump, 3-cone, shuttle, bench press. Source: nflverse combine.csv.

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

Per-Snap Impact

Running Backs · proprietary · 2012+

Above average

SIS

Yards / snap:2.248 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap2.248Touch rate0.461EPA/snap0Snap share56.5%Off snaps3,608ReliableCV 0.26

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within running backs, 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

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

Combine · 2017

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

RB · 2017 class

4.49s

40-Yard

Above avg · 70th pct

Pos 70thAll 81thClass Pos 71thClass All 82th

30.5"

Vertical

Low · 11th pct

Pos 11thAll 26thClass Pos 30thClass All 34th

116"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

📉 Regular Season Player

Yards / Carry: 4.6 regular season → 3.3 playoffs (3 playoff seasons)

-29%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

8,109

6,227 rush · 1,882 recv

Total TDs

47 rush · 5 recv

Total Touches

1,594

1,357 carries · 237 rec

Yds / Touch

5.1

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones6

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

20191K career rushing yards
2019100 career receptions
20203K career rushing yards
202025 career rushing TDs
20201K career receiving yards
20225K career rushing 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.

Postseason Career

4 playoff games

Rushing

Att60Yds195TD2Y/A3.3TD%3.31D101D%16.7

Receiving

Tgt20

College Stats

Florida StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Florida 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

Eric KendricksMLB7y Harrison SmithFS6y Adam ThielenWR6y C.J. HamFB6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Dalvin inherited the Minnesota Vikings RB room from Adrian Peterson (2007–2016), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Chuck Foreman 1973–1979Darrin Nelson 1982–1992Herschel Walker 1989–1991Terry Allen 1991–1994Robert Smith 1993–2000Adrian Peterson

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2024team change
Joined DAL (from NYJ)
2024final season
Last recorded season with DAL
2023team change
Joined NYJ (from MIN)
2017draft
Drafted by MIN — Round 2, Pick 41

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'10" / 210 lb

Frame

210 lb at 4.49s

Size-speed

30.5" vert / 116" broad

Explosion

22 reps

Bench power

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 82

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

D2017

B2018

B+2019

A2020

B+2021

B+2022

C+2023

Availability

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

74%

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
2017	354	88.5	1,575+1,221	92.7
2018	615	55.9	981+366	57.7
2019	1,135	81.1	1,450+315	85.3
2020	1,557	111.2	1,887+330	111
2021	1,159	89.2	1,517+358	89.2
2022	1,173	69	1,197+24	70.4
2023	214	15.3	261+47	15.3

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

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 →

11%

Active · Longshot

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 54.4%Pro Bowls 25.5%Longevity 15.9%All-Time Ranks 4.2%

Monitor score 47.1 · 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

Overall

Longevity70

Peak82

Accolades10

Consistency58

Per-Snap50

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Dalvin Cook

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Per-Snap Impact

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2017

From Scrimmage · Career

Postseason Career

Rushing

Receiving

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

Snap Counts

2017 Draft Class· this player went #41

Career Geography