Joe Burrow packed more value into his peak seasons than almost any quarterback in NFL history — a comet career that burned brightest when it mattered most. His KV-H peak of 76 is historically rare; while longevity was not his calling card, the impact of his best seasons is undeniable.

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Joe Burrow

3× Pro BowlTop 4% all-time QBsAll-Time Great👑 #1 Quarterback · 2024 📈 Late Developer · 2024 Team Carrier · #448

Career Value · VORP

181 career value over replacement — #469 all-time of 4,695. 30.2/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

Led league 2×8 top-10 Comet63% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #1 (Rd 1) · CIN · 2020 · +8.7 vs expected KV-H

72actual

63.3 expected · Δ+8.7

💔+65.5 stolen VORP·2.17 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #448 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

2 qualifying seasons

2020 CIN·4 team wins#23

Passing Yards · 2,688 · score 9

2025 CIN·6 team wins#24

Passing Touchdowns · 17 · score 2

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 26% of the all-time Passing Touchdowns leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

26% of the all-time Passing Touchdowns leader26

1 category ≥25% of the all-time leader33

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: 90%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 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.

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 QBs aging curve. Group peak age: 24. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Passer Rating: 101.3 regular season → 93.8 playoffs (2 playoff seasons)

-7%

vs reg season

Career Milestones8

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

20201K career passing yards
20215K career passing yards
202125 career passing TDs
202210K career passing yards
202250 career passing TDs
2024100 career passing TDs
2025

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Postseason Career

7 playoff games

Passing

Cmp169Att251Cmp%67.3%Yds1,826TD9Int4TD%3.6Int%1.6Y/A7.3

College Stats

LSU; Ohio StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (LSU; Ohio 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

Drew SampleTE7y Tee HigginsWR7y Jalen DavisCB7y B.J. HillDT6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Joe inherited the Cincinnati Bengals QB room from Andy Dalton (2011–2019), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Boomer Esiason 1984–1997Jeff Blake 1994–1999Jon Kitna 2001–2005Carson Palmer 2004–2010Andy Dalton 2011–2019Joe Burrow 2020–2026

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 .

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with CIN
2020draft
Drafted by CIN — Round 1, Pick 1

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'4" / 215 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 6-season peers. See all →

peak 76

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

B2020

B+2021

B+2022

C+2023

A2024

C+2025

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 7 seasons.

69%

Era Translator

Pass 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 Pass Yds	Pass Yds/G	→ 2025 Pass Yds	→ 2025 /G
2020	2,688	268.8	4,173+1,485	245.5
2021	4,611	288.2	4,588-23	269.9
2022	4,475	279.7	4,536+61	266.8
2023	2,309	230.9	3,887+1,578	228.6
2024	4,918	289.3	4,825-93	283.8
2025	1,809	226.1	3,844+2,035	226.1

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/18/2026

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.

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 →

20%

Active · Building

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 42.8%Pro Bowls 19.4%League Leads 17.3%Longevity 16.2%All-Time Ranks 4.3%

Monitor score 46.3 · 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

Longevity67

Peak76

Accolades14

Consistency64

Per-Snap50

Wasted Talent#14 most affected

This player carries the statistical signature of a Hall-of-Fame candidate whose career was cut short by injury or circumstance. The gap between their ceiling and actual production is quantified below.

HOF Probability

1950%

active-building

Durability IQ

Typical

Availability Rate

6900%

of games played vs eligible

IR / Lost Seasons

seasons lost to injury

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Joe Burrow

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Career Aging Trajectory

Postseason Career

Passing

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

Rushing

2020 Draft Class· this player went #1

Career Geography