Le'Veon Bell packed more value into his peak seasons than almost any running back in NFL history — a comet career that burned brightest when it mattered most. His KV-H peak of 86 is historically rare; while longevity was not his calling card, the impact of his best seasons is undeniable.

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Le'Veon Bell

3× Pro Bowl2× All-ProTop 4% all-time RBsAll-Time Great🏆 Clutch · +26% playoffs ⛰️ Mountain Arc · 2016

Height6'1"

Career Value · VORP

155 career value over replacement — #619 all-time of 4,695. 19.4/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

5 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Comet61% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Boom-or-BustCV 0.55

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #48 (Rd 2) · PIT · 2013 · +28.8 vs expected KV-H

78actual

49.2 expected · Δ+28.8

💔+40.4 stolen VORP·2.08 szns lost

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All-Time Standing

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

Depth

of 100

Reached 36% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

36% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader36

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: 91%.

Encyclopedia Coverage6/8 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.

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 Day40-yard dash, vertical, broad jump, 3-cone, shuttle, bench press. Source: nflverse combine.csv.

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.

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

Per-Snap Impact

Running Backs · proprietary · 2012+

Above average

SIS

Yards / snap:2.031 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap2.031Touch rate0.432EPA/snap0Snap share85.4%Off snaps4,851ReliableCV 0.28

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within running backs, 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 RBs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2013

Percentiles compare each raw measurement against position peers, the full combine pool, and the same draft class where enough samples exist.

RB · 2013 class

4.60s

40-Yard

Below avg · 36th pct

Pos 36thAll 61thClass Pos 47thClass All 66th

31.5"

Vertical

Low · 17th pct

Pos 17thAll 33thClass Pos 21thClass All 36th

118"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

🏆 Playoff Performer

Yards / Carry: 4.1 regular season → 5.2 playoffs (3 playoff seasons)

+26%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

9,851

6,554 rush · 3,297 recv

Total TDs

42 rush · 9 recv

Total Touches

1,995

1,595 carries · 400 rec

Yds / Touch

4.9

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones8

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

20141K career rushing yards
20141K career receiving yards
2014100 career receptions
20163K career rushing yards
201625 career rushing TDs
20175K career rushing yards

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

Rushing

Att83Yds430TD3Y/A5.2TD%3.61D221D%26.5

Receiving

Tgt23

College Stats

Michigan StateCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

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Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Antonio BrownWR6y Ben RoethlisbergerQB5y Cameron HeywardDE5y William GayFS5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Le'Veon inherited the Pittsburgh Steelers RB room from Jerome Bettis (1996–2005), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

John Henry Johnson 1960–1965Franco Harris 1972–1983Frank Pollard 1980–1988Walter Abercrombie 1982–1987Merril Hoge 1987–1993Jerome Bettis

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2021team change
Joined BAL (from KC)
2021final season
Last recorded season with BAL
2020team change
Joined KC (from NYJ)
2019team change
Joined NYJ (from PIT)
2013draft
Drafted by PIT — Round 2, Pick 48

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 244 lb

Frame

230 lb at 4.60s

Size-speed

31.5" vert / 118" broad

Explosion

24 reps

Bench power

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 8-season peers. See all →

peak 86

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

B+2013

A2014

C+2015

A2016

A2017

B2019

C+2020

C2021

Availability

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

74%

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
2013	860	66.2	1,201+341	70.6
2014	1,361	85.1	1,595+234	93.8
2015	556	92.7	1,742+1,186	102.5
2016	1,268	105.7	1,977+709	116.3
2017	1,291	86.1	1,531+240	90.1
2019	789	52.6	931+142	54.8
2020	328	29.8	517+189	30.4
2021	101	12.6	229+128	13.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks, 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.

Canton Monitor · HOF

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

22%

Building a Case

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 41%All-Pro 34.1%Pro Bowls 12.8%Longevity 10.7%All-Time Ranks 1.4%

Monitor score 70.3 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

What Would It Take?

To reach 50% HOF probability (score target: 109.1 · current: 70.3 · gap: +38.8)

4 more selections(First-Team All-Pro · 12 pts each · +48 pts total)

10 more seasons leading the NFL(League Lead · 4 pts each · +40 pts total)

11 more more seasons started(Starter Seasons · 1.5 pts each · +17 pts total)

Paths ranked cheapest first · accolade-based, data-calibrated vs actual enshrinement

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity72

Peak86

Accolades28

Consistency45

Per-Snap50

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Le'Veon Bell

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

Per-Snap Impact

Career Aging Trajectory

Combine · 2013

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

2013 Draft Class· this player went #48

Career Geography