Marvin Harrison is a Hall of Fame receiver whose career earned one of the highest career value scores of 96 in the Knox value model. Harrison led his position in a major category 5 times — the definition of era-defining dominance.

On the boards· Appears on 9 boards

Streaks8 straight · 1,000 receiving yards · 1999–06

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Marvin Harrison

★ HALL OF FAME8× Pro Bowl3× All-ProTop 0% all-time WRsIron Legend👑 3× #1 Wide Receiver · 1999–2006 Team Carrier · #124

Career Value · VORP

353 career value over replacement — #68 all-time of 4,695. 27.2/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

Led league 5×21 top-10

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #19 (Rd 1) · IND · 1996 · +39.3 vs expected KV-H

96actual

56.7 expected · Δ+39.3

💔+31.8 stolen VORP·1.17 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #124 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

3 qualifying seasons

2001 IND·6 team wins#2

Receiving Yards · 1,524 · score 24

2001 IND·6 team wins#2

Receiving Touchdowns · 15 · score 24

2001 IND·6 team wins#3

Receptions · 109 · score 23

All-Time Standing

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

Strong

of 100

Reached 71% of the all-time Receptions leader — a strong all-time profile at the position.

71% of the all-time Receptions leader71

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 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

Yards / Reception: 13.2 regular season → 13.6 playoffs (10 playoff seasons)

+3%

vs reg season

Career Milestones16

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

19971K career receiving yards
1997100 career receptions
19993K career receiving yards
1999250 career receptions
199925 career receiving TDs
20005K career receiving yards

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

16 playoff games

Receiving

Tgt85Rec65Yds882TD2Ctch%76.5%Y/R13.6Y/Tgt10.41D38

College Stats

SyracuseCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Syracuse), 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

Peyton ManningQB11y Hunter SmithP10y Marcus PollardTE9y Reggie WayneWR8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Marvin inherited the Indianapolis Colts WR room from Reggie Langhorne (1992–1993), and handed it to Reggie Wayne (2001–2014).

Bill Brooks 1986–1992Jessie Hester 1990–1993Reggie Langhorne 1992–1993Marvin Harrison 1996–2008Reggie Wayne 2001–2014Brandon Stokley

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2008final season
Last recorded season with IND
1996draft
Drafted by IND — Round 1, Pick 19

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'0" / 185 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 13-season peers. See all →

peak 95

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

B1996

B1997

B1998

A1999

A2000

A2001

A+2002

A2003

B+2004

B+2005

A2006

D2007

C+2008

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
1996	836	52.3	780-56	45.9
1997	866	54.1	788-78	46.4
1998	776	64.7	937+161	55.1
1999	1,663	103.9	1,534-129	90.2
2000	1,413	88.3	1,340-73	78.8
2001	1,524	95.3	1,546+22	91
2002	1,722	107.6	1,770+48	104.1
2003	1,272	84.8	1,393+121	81.9
2004	1,113	69.6	1,098-15	64.6
2005	1,146	76.4	1,227+81	72.2
2006	1,366	85.4	1,364-2	80.2
2007	247	49.4	699+452	41.1
2008	636	42.4	572-64	33.7

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, wikipedia:college-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference) · 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+).

500 career receptions

200150 career receiving TDs

20028K career receiving yards

200310K career receiving yards

2003750 career receptions

200375 career receiving TDs

200512K career receiving yards

2005100 career receiving TDs

20061000 career receptions

2008125 career receiving TDs

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.

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 13 seasons.

19962008

2007 · cause not documented · 31%

Durability IQ

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

Iron

Canton Monitor · HOF

Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. See all →

✓

Enshrined

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 25.2%All-Pro 23.2%Pro Bowls 15.5%League Leads 12.9%All-Time Ranks 11.6%Longevity 11.6%

Monitor score 155 · 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

Longevity89

Peak95

Accolades67

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

Historical Rank · Era-Adjusted

Best single season, projected to Receiving Yards in a modern 17-game schedule. See all →

#13

2002 · WR · all-time

Career Geography

One-Club ManLeague board →

Gave the Indianapolis Colts an entire corpus-attributed career — 13 seasons (1996–2008), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.

On the boards· Appears on 9 boards

Marvin Harrison

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

1996 Draft Class· this player went #19

Career Geography