Nico Collins ranks in the all-time elite tier for receivers — 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 74, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#50Per-snap impactof 300

Streaks3 straight · 1,000 receiving yards · 2023–25

WRHOU#12ACT

Nico Collins

2× Pro BowlTop 6% all-time WRsFranchise Cornerstone

Height6'4"

Weight222 lb

BornMar 19, 1999

Age27

Career Value · VORP

110 career value over replacement — #1018 all-time of 4,695. 22/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

2 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #89 (Rd 3) · HOU · 2021 · +36.5 vs expected KV-H

74actual

37.5 expected · Δ+36.5

💔+42.2 stolen VORP·1.92 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 20% of the all-time Receiving Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

20% of the all-time Receiving Yards leader20

0 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader0

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: 94%.

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

Wide Receivers · proprietary · 2012+

Elite

SIS

Yards / snap:1.507 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap1.507Touch rate0.157EPA/snap0Snap share68.8%Off snaps3,068ReliableCV 0.29

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within wide receivers, 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 wide receivers aging curve. Group peak age: 25. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Combine · 2021

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

WR · 2021 class

4.43s

40-Yard

Above avg · 73th pct

Pos 73thAll 90thClass Pos 72thClass All 86th

37.5"

Vertical

Above avg · 72th pct

Pos 72thAll 85thClass Pos 76thClass All 85th

125"

Broad Jump

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Yards / Reception: 14.9 regular season → 14.9 playoffs (3 playoff seasons)

+0%

vs reg season

Career Milestones5

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

20231K career receiving yards
2023100 career receptions
20243K career receiving yards
2025250 career receptions
202625 career receiving TDs

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

5 playoff games

Rushing

Att1Yds4Y/A4.0

Receiving

Tgt40Rec26Yds388TD2Ctch%65.0%

College Stats

MichiganCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Michigan), 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

Ka'imi FairbairnK6y Dare OgunbowaleRB5y M.J. StewartSAF5y Tytus HowardOT5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Nico inherited the Houston Texans WR room from Brandin Cooks (2020–2022), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Charlie Joiner 1969–1972Ernest Givins 1986–1994Curtis Duncan 1987–1993Haywood Jeffires 1987–1995Webster Slaughter 1992–1994Chris Sanders

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2026final season
Last recorded season with HOU
2021draft
Drafted by HOU — Round 3, Pick 89

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'4" / 222 lb

Frame

215 lb at 4.43s

Size-speed

37.5" vert / 125" broad

Explosion

14 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 5-season peers. See all →

peak 80

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

C+2021

C+2022

A2023

B+2024

B+2025

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 6 seasons.

68%

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
2021	446	31.9	463+17	27.3
2022	481	48.1	746+265	43.9
2023	1,297	86.5	1,431+134	84.2
2024	1,006	83.8	1,419+413	83.5
2025	1,117	74.5	1,266+149	74.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:combine, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 10/15/2026

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.