Edgerrin James is a Hall of Fame running back whose career earned a historically elite career value score of 85 in the Knox value model. James's enshrinement reflects a career that consistently placed him among the elite of his generation.

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

Streaks5 straight · 1,000 rushing yards · 2003–07

RBSEA#32CUT

Edgerrin James

★ HALL OF FAME4× Pro Bowl1× All-Pro4th youngest · 1,000 Rushing Yards 5th youngest · 1,000 Scrimmage Yards Top 2% all-time RBsIron Legend🎯 Near-Miss Club

Career Value · VORP

247 career value over replacement — #233 all-time of 4,695. 22.5/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

Led league 2×9 top-10 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.30

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #4 (Rd 1) · IND · 1999 · +21.7 vs expected KV-H

85actual

63.3 expected · Δ+21.7

💔+39.6 stolen VORP·1.76 szns lost

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Height6'0"

Weight219 lb

BornAug 1, 1978

Age48

CollegeMiami See College Stats

Rookie yr1999

Draft1999 · Rd 1, Pick 4 · IND

Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #249 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

Full board

Total Score

2 qualifying seasons

2006 ARI·5 team wins#12

Rushing Yards · 1,159 · score 28

2006 ARI·5 team wins#22

Rushing Touchdowns · 6 · score 8

All-Time Standing

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

Strong

of 100

Reached 66% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a strong all-time profile at the position.

66% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader66

3 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader100

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

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

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

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Yards / Carry: 4.0 regular season → 3.9 playoffs (7 playoff seasons)

-3%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

15,511

12,175 rush · 3,336 recv

Total TDs

80 rush · 11 recv

Total Touches

3,449

3,018 carries · 431 rec

Yds / Touch

4.5

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones13

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

19991K career rushing yards
20003K career rushing yards
200025 career rushing TDs
20001K career receiving yards
2000100 career receptions
20035K 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

13 playoff games

Rushing

Att218Yds852TD6Y/A3.9TD%2.81D511D%23.4Fmb1

Receiving

College Stats

MiamiCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Miami), 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

Peyton ManningQB7y Marvin HarrisonWR7y Hunter SmithP7y Marcus PollardTE6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Edgerrin inherited the Indianapolis Colts RB room from Marshall Faulk (1994–1998), and handed it to Joseph Addai (2006–2011).

Joe Washington 1978–1980Curtis Dickey 1980–1985Albert Bentley 1985–1991Eric Dickerson 1987–1991Marshall Faulk 1994–1998Edgerrin James

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

Movementderived from season history

2009team change
Joined SEA (from ARI)
2009final season
Last recorded season with SEA
2006team change
Joined ARI (from IND)
1999draft
Drafted by IND — Round 1, Pick 4

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'0" / 219 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 11-season peers. See all →

peak 87

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

A1999

A2000

C+2001

B+2002

B+2003

A2004

A2005

B+2006

B+2007

C+2008

D2009

Availability

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

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
1999	1,474	92.1	1,687+213	99.2
2000	1,709	106.8	1,740+31	102.3
2001	662	110.3	1,761+1,099	103.6
2002	989	70.6	1,135+146	66.8
2003	1,257	96.7	1,478+221	86.9
2004	1,548	96.8	1,438-110	84.6
2005	1,506	100.4	1,490-16	87.7
2006	1,159	72.4	1,067-92	62.8
2007	1,232	77	1,151-81	67.7
2008	514	39.5	621+107	36.5
2009	125	17.9	312+187	18.4

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.

250 career receptions

200450 career rushing TDs

20058K career rushing yards

200610K career rushing yards

20063K career receiving yards

200775 career rushing TDs

200812K career rushing 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.

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.

19992009

2001 · cause not documented · 38%2009 · cause not documented · 44%

Durability IQ

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

Durable

Canton Monitor · HOF

Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →

✓

Enshrined

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 38.6%Longevity 16.7%All-Pro 14.9%Pro Bowls 14.9%League Leads 9.9%All-Time Ranks 5%

Monitor score 80.6 · 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

Longevity82

Peak87

Accolades27

Consistency70

Per-Snap50

Career Geography

Journeyman · 3 crestsLeague board →

Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 11 seasons (1999–2009) — a true nomad. The crest trail:

IND 1999–2005 ARI 2006–2008 SEA 2009

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

Edgerrin James

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

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

1999 Draft Class· this player went #4

Career Geography