Matt Forte is one of the most consistent running backs of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Forte delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#11Two-way playersof 60

Streaks3 straight · 1,000 rushing yards · 2012–14

RBNYJ#22RES

Matt Forte

2× Pro BowlTop 5% all-time RBsIron Legend🎯 Near-Miss Club · 2×⚙️ Sustained Machine · 2013 Team Carrier · #51

Career Value · VORP

224 career value over replacement — #302 all-time of 4,695. 22.4/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

4 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks Compiler38% in top 3 yrs 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.25

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #44 (Rd 2) · CHI · 2008 · +27.6 vs expected KV-H

77actual

49.4 expected · Δ+27.6

💔+20.2 stolen VORP·0.9 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #51 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

127

6 qualifying seasons

2014 CHI·5 team wins#4

Receptions · 102 · score 44

2014 CHI·5 team wins#12

Rushing Yards · 1,038 · score 28

2016 NYJ·5 team wins#18

Rushing Touchdowns · 7 · score 16

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 53% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

53% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader53

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: 93%.

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.

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:2.036 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap2.036Touch rate0.437EPA/snap0Snap share69.5%Off snaps3,348ConsistentCV 0.18

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

Combine · 2008

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

RB · 2008 class

4.44s

40-Yard

Strong · 83th pct

Pos 83thAll 89thClass Pos 81thClass All 86th

33"

Vertical

Below avg · 33th pct

Pos 33thAll 46thClass Pos 58thClass All 74th

118"

Broad Jump

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

14,468

9,789 rush · 4,679 recv

Total TDs

54 rush · 21 recv

Total Touches

2,910

2,355 carries · 555 rec

Yds / Touch

5.0

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones11

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

20081K career rushing yards
2009100 career receptions
20103K career rushing yards
20101K career receiving yards
20125K career rushing yards
201225 career rushing TDs

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

2 playoff games

Rushing

Att42Yds150Y/A3.61D51D%11.9

Receiving

Tgt18Rec13Yds144

College Stats

TulaneCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Tulane), 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

Robbie GouldK8y Lance BriggsOLB7y Charles TillmanCB7y Jay CutlerQB7y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Matt inherited the Chicago Bears RB room from Brad Muster (1988–1992), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

George McAfee 1940–1950Gale Sayers 1965–1971Walter Payton 1975–1987Matt Suhey 1980–1989Dennis Gentry 1982–1992Neal Anderson 1986–1993

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2017final season
Last recorded season with NYJ
2016team change
Joined NYJ (from CHI)
2008draft
Drafted by CHI — Round 2, Pick 44

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'2" / 218 lb

Frame

217 lb at 4.44s

Size-speed

33" vert / 118" broad

Explosion

23 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 10-season peers. See all →

peak 78

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

B+2008

B2009

B+2010

B+2011

B+2012

A2013

B+2014

B+2015

B+2016

C+2017

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 10 seasons.

91%

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
2008	1,231	76.9	1,150-81	67.7
2009	929	58.1	909-20	53.5
2010	1,069	66.8	1,090+21	64.1
2011	997	83.1	1,394+397	82
2012	1,094	72.9	1,273+179	74.9
2013	1,339	83.7	1,507+168	88.7
2014	1,038	64.9	1,218+180	71.6
2015	898	69.1	1,288+390	75.8
2016	813	58.1	1,063+250	62.5
2017	381	31.8	551+170	32.4

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.