Season totals or exact team stints. Career totals count each season once.
| Season | Age | Team | G | GS | Receiving | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Ctch% | Y/R | Y/Tgt | AirYd/T | 1D | |||||
| 2004 | 24 | CAR | 3 | — | 4 | 4 | 34 | 0 | 100.0% | 8.5 | 8.5 | — | 1 |
| 2005 | 25 | CAR | 7 | — | 12 | 12 | 155 | 2 | 100.0% | 12.9 | 12.9 | — | 8 |
| 2006 | 26 | CAR | 8 | — | 15 | 15 | 146 | 0 | 100.0% | 9.7 | 9.7 | — | 9 |
| 2007 | 27 | BUF | 15 | — | 25 | 25 | 215 | 2 | 100.0% | 8.6 | 8.6 | — | 13 |
| 2008 | 28 | DET | 11 | — | 23 | 23 | 260 | 1 | 100.0% | 11.3 | 11.3 | — | 13 |
| 2009 | 29 | CLE | 7 | — | 9 | 5 | 59 | 1 | 55.6% | 11.8 | 6.6 | — | 3 |
| Career | — | 51 | — | 88 | 84 | 869 | 6 | 95.5% | 10.3 | 9.9 | — | 47 | |
Career Value · VORP
12 career value over replacement — #3580 all-time of 4,695. 2.4/season above a replacement-level TE.
Pick #232 (Rd 7) · CAR · 2004 · +29.2 vs expected KV-H
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5 seasons · peak 1.1 in 2008
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NFL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.1 career wins over 5 seasons · 1 win = 13.08 VAL
Best season · 2008 · +0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NFL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
#305 of 698 all-time TEs by KV-H
A solid career by KV-H: a well-rounded profile that scores 48 of 100, era-normalized against rec yds/g peers across 5 scored seasons.
Blend 47.6 × longevity 1 = KV-H 48· confidence 95%
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