Josh Gordon is a career quality starter — a receiver whose body of work places Gordon in the top quarter of all players at the position historically. The Knox model values sustained contribution over flash, and Gordon's career arc reflects exactly that kind of reliable professional-grade performance.

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Josh Gordon

Top 12% all-time WRsElite Playmaker🌅 Early Bloomer · 2013 Team Carrier · #41

Height6'3"

Weight224 lb

Career Value · VORP

89 career value over replacement — #1336 all-time of 4,695. 12.7/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #41 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

150

3 qualifying seasons

2013 CLE·4 team wins#1

Receiving Yards · 1,646 · score 75

2013 CLE·4 team wins#12

Receptions · 87 · score 42

2013 CLE·4 team wins#15

Receiving Touchdowns · 9 · score 33

All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 19% of the all-time Receiving Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

19% of the all-time Receiving Yards leader19

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

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: 92%.

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

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Per-Snap Impact

Wide Receivers · proprietary · 2012+

Excellent

SIS

Yards / snap:1.311 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap1.311Touch rate0.142EPA/snap0Snap share60.6%Off snaps2,722VolatileCV 0.46

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within wide receivers, 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 wide receivers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Career Milestones4

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

20131K career receiving yards
2013100 career receptions
20173K career receiving yards
2021250 career receptions

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.

College Stats

Utah; BaylorCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Utah; Baylor), 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

Tashaun GipsonFS3y Joe ThuneyG3y Jason McCourtyS3y Joe HadenCB3y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Josh inherited the Cleveland Browns WR room from Braylon Edwards (2005–2009), and handed it to Jarvis Landry (2018–2021).

Bobby Mitchell 1958–1961Paul Warfield 1964–1977Dave Logan 1976–1983Brian Brennan 1984–1991Reggie Langhorne 1985–1991Webster Slaughter

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

Movementderived from season history

2022team change
Joined TEN (from KC)
2022final season
Last recorded season with TEN
2021team change
Joined KC (from NE)
2018team change
Joined NE (from CLE)
2012signing
Entered the NFL with CLE

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'3" / 224 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 7-season peers. See all →

peak 76

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

B2012

A+2013

D2014

D2017

B2018

C+2019

D2021

Availability

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

59%

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
2012	805	50.3	743-62	43.7
2013	1,646	117.6	1,919+273	112.9
2014	303	60.6	902+599	53.1
2017	335	67	1,065+730	62.7
2018	737	61.4	941+204	55.4
2019	426	38.7	562+136	33.1
2021	32	3.6	0-32	0

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — 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.

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Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Per-Snap Impact

Career Aging Trajectory

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Knox

Era Translator

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