Kerry Collins ranks in the all-time elite tier for quarterbacks — a career that places Collins in the top 10% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Collins a career score of 67, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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Kerry Collins

2× Pro Bowl👑 Dynasty DNA · 9 seasons · 1 titles Top 10% all-time QBsElite Playmaker⛰️ Mountain Arc · 2002 Team Carrier · #231

Career Value · VORP

299 career value over replacement — #135 all-time of 4,695. 21.4/season above a replacement-level QB.

Career Profile

5 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #5 (Rd 1) · CAR · 1995 · +3.7 vs expected KV-H

67actual

63.3 expected · Δ+3.7

💔+92.4 stolen VORP·4.32 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #231 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

2003 NYG·4 team wins#16

Passing Yards · 3,110 · score 30

2003 NYG·4 team wins#23

Passing Touchdowns · 13 · score 9

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 46% of the all-time Passing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

46% of the all-time Passing Yards leader46

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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: 86%.

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

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Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Passer Rating: 73.9 regular season → 75.3 playoffs (4 playoff seasons)

+2%

vs reg season

Career Milestones11

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

19951K career passing yards
19965K career passing yards
199625 career passing TDs
199850 career passing TDs
199910K career passing yards
2001100 career passing TDs
2002

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

5 playoff games

Passing

Cmp140Att240Cmp%58.3%Yds1,556TD12Int11TD%5.0Int%4.6Y/A6.5

College Stats

Penn StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Penn 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

Michael StrahanDE5y Amani ToomerWR5y Micheal BarrowLB5y Keith HamiltonDT5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Kerry inherited the New York Giants QB room from Jeff Hostetler (1985–1992), and handed it to Eli Manning (2004–2019).

Y. A. Tittle 1961–1964Fran Tarkenton 1967–1971Phil Simms 1979–1993Jeff Hostetler 1985–1992Kerry Collins 1999–2003Eli Manning

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2011team change
Joined IND (from TEN)
2011final season
Last recorded season with IND
2006team change
Joined TEN (from OAK)
2004team change
Joined OAK (from NYG)
1999team change
Joined NYG (from CAR)
1995draft
Drafted by CAR — Round 1, Pick 5

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'5" / 247 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 14-season peers. See all →

peak 71

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

C+1995

C+1996

C+1997

B1999

B2000

B2001

B+2002

B2003

B2004

B+2005

F2007

C+2008

D2009

C2010

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
1995	2,717	181.1	3,662+945	215.4
1996	2,454	188.8	3,734+1,280	219.6
1997	2,124	163.4	3,410+1,286	200.6
1999	2,318	231.8	4,237+1,919	249.2
2000	3,576	223.5	4,063+487	239
2001	3,764	235.3	4,216+452	248
2002	4,073	254.6	4,400+327	258.8
2003	3,110	239.2	4,200+1,090	247.1
2004	3,495	249.6	4,344+849	255.5
2005	3,759	250.6	4,350+591	255.9
2007	531	88.5	2,277+1,746	133.9
2008	2,681	167.6	3,245+564	190.9
2009	1,225	175	3,195+1,970	187.9
2010	1,823	182.3	3,234+1,411	190.2

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), nflverse:injuries, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), wikipedia:college-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · 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.

Canton Monitor · HOF

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

13%

Longshot

What carries the case

Longevity 45.5%Era Quality (KV-H) 29.8%Pro Bowls 16.5%All-Time Ranks 8.3%

Monitor score 36.3 · 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

Longevity81

Peak71

Accolades5

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

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Kerry Collins

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

1995 Draft Class· this player went #5

Career Geography