Don Hutson is a Hall of Fame tight end whose career earned a historically elite career value score of 80 in the Knox value model. Hutson's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.
Career Value · VORP
238 career value over replacement — #258 all-time of 4,695. 23.8/season above a replacement-level TE.
💔+28.6 stolen VORP·1.2 szns lostFan Rating
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Reached 50% of the all-time Receiving Touchdowns leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.
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: 97%.
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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.
Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).
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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.
Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.
Don opened the Green Bay Packers TE lineage the corpus knows, and handed it to Ed West (1984–1994).
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 .
Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).
Last recorded season with GB
Entered the NFL with GB
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Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 10-season peers. See all →
Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 10 seasons.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 420 | 46.7 | 612+192 | 36 |
| 1936 | 536 | 44.7 | 402-134 | 23.7 |
| 1937 | 552 | 50.2 | 481-71 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 548 | 54.8 | 471-77 | 27.7 |
| 1939 | 846 | 76.9 | 935+89 | 55 |
| 1940 | 664 | 60.4 | 256-408 | 15.1 |
| 1941 | 738 | 67.1 | 52-686 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 1,211 | 110.1 | 1,058-153 | 62.2 |
| 1943 | 776 | 77.6 | 1,422+646 | 83.6 |
| 1944 | 866 | 86.6 | 1,580+714 | 92.9 |
Data: wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), wikipedia:pfhof-inductee-list · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 7/10/2026
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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.
Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average tight ends aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).
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Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →
What carries the case
Monitor score 167.4 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).
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Statistical profile across 5 dimensions
Best single season, projected to Receiving Yards (TE) in a modern 17-game schedule. See all →
Gave the Green Bay Packers an entire corpus-attributed career — 11 seasons (1935–1945), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.