Not to be confused withJimmy Smith (CB · 2011–2021) or Jimmy Smith (RB · 1984–1987).

Also in other sports:mlbJimmy Smith (SS · 1914–1922).

Jimmy Smith ranks in the all-time elite tier for receivers — a career that places Smith in the top 3% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Smith a career score of 84, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#92Leader marks (black ink)of 150

Streaks7 straight · 1,000 receiving yards · 1996–02

WRJAX#82ACT

Jimmy Smith

5× Pro BowlTop 2% all-time WRsIron Legend🏟️ Jacksonville Jaguars Icon 🏆 Clutch · +13% playoffs 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1996 Team Carrier · #100

Career Value · VORP

299 career value over replacement — #134 all-time of 4,695. 24.9/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

Led league 1×5 top-10

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #36 (Rd 2) · DAL · 1992 · +29.2 vs expected KV-H

84actual

54.8 expected · Δ+29.2

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Height6'1"

Weight202 lb

BornFeb 9, 1969

Age57

CollegeJackson State University See College Stats

Rookie yr1992

Draft1992 · Rd 2, Pick 36 · DAL

Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #100 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

Full board

Total Score

6 qualifying seasons

2001 JAX·6 team wins#2

Receptions · 112 · score 24

2001 JAX·6 team wins#4

Receiving Yards · 1,373 · score 22

2001 JAX·6 team wins#16

Receiving Touchdowns · 8 · score 10

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 56% of the all-time Receptions leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

56% of the all-time Receptions leader56

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

Playoff vs Regular Season

🏆 Playoff Performer

Yards / Reception: 14.3 regular season → 16.2 playoffs (6 playoff seasons)

+13%

vs reg season

Career Milestones12

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

19961K career receiving yards
1996100 career receptions
19983K career receiving yards
1998250 career receptions
19995K career receiving yards
199925 career receiving TDs

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

9 playoff games

Receiving

Tgt27Rec40Yds647TD7Ctch%148.1%Y/R16.2Y/Tgt24.01D10

College Stats

Jackson State UniversityCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Jackson State University), 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

Mark BrunellQB9y Fred TaylorRB8y Donovin DariusDB8y Tony BrackensDE8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Jimmy opened the Jacksonville Jaguars WR lineage the corpus knows, and handed it to Keenan McCardell (1996–2001).

Jimmy Smith 1995–2005Keenan McCardell 1996–2001Reggie Williams 2004–2008Matt Jones 2005–2008Mike Sims-Walker 2008–2011Cecil Shorts 2011–2014

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

Movementderived from season history

2005final season
Last recorded season with JAX
1995team change
Joined JAX (from DAL)
1992draft
Drafted by DAL — Round 2, Pick 36

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 202 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 12-season peers. See all →

peak 83

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

D1992

D1995

A1996

B+1997

B+1998

A1999

B+2000

A2001

B+2002

B2003

B+2004

B+2005

Availability

Era Translator

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
1992	0	0	39+39	2.3
1995	288	72	1,063+775	62.5
1996	1,244	138.2	1,873+629	110.2
1997	1,324	82.8	1,175-149	69.1
1998	1,182	78.8	1,135-47	66.8
1999	1,636	102.3	1,509-127	88.8
2000	1,213	80.9	1,223+10	71.9
2001	1,373	85.8	1,378+5	81
2002	1,027	64.2	985-42	57.9
2003	805	67.1	1,056+251	62.1
2004	1,172	73.3	1,171-1	68.9
2005	1,023	63.9	977-46	57.5

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, statvault:restored-from-history (S316) · 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.

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average wide receivers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

8K career receiving yards

2001500 career receptions

200250 career receiving TDs

200310K career receiving yards

2004750 career receptions

200512K career receiving 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.

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Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 12 seasons.

19922005

1992 · backup · 7/16 G1995 · backup · 4/16 G

1996 · cause not documented · 56%

Durability IQ

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

Iron

Canton Monitor · HOF

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

11%

Longshot

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 43%Pro Bowls 23.1%Longevity 23.1%League Leads 6.2%All-Time Ranks 4.6%

Monitor score 64.9 · 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

Longevity86

Peak83

Accolades16

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

Jimmy Smith

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

Postseason Career

Receiving

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

1992 Draft Class· this player went #36