Priest Holmes ranks in the all-time elite tier for running backs — a career that places Holmes in the top 5% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Holmes a career score of 76, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#26Leader marks (black ink)of 150

Streaks3 straight · 1,000 rushing yards · 2001–03

RBKC#31RES

Priest Holmes

Top 5% all-time RBsAll-Time Great👑 #1 Running Back · 2001–2002 🏆 Clutch · +15% playoffs Team Carrier · #226

Height

Career Value · VORP

179 career value over replacement — #486 all-time of 4,695. 17.9/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

Led league 3×6 top-10

💔+48.3 stolen VORP·2.7 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #226 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

2 qualifying seasons

2001 KC·6 team wins#1

Rushing Yards · 1,555 · score 25

2001 KC·6 team wins#11

Rushing Touchdowns · 8 · score 15

All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 52% of the all-time Rushing Touchdowns leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

52% of the all-time Rushing Touchdowns leader52

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

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 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

Methodology · Trust Center

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Playoff vs Regular Season

🏆 Playoff Performer

Yards / Carry: 4.6 regular season → 5.3 playoffs (2 playoff seasons)

+15%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

11,045

8,120 rush · 2,925 recv

Total TDs

86 rush · 7 recv

Total Touches

2,104

1,768 carries · 336 rec

Yds / Touch

5.2

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones10

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

19981K career rushing yards
20013K career rushing yards
20011K career receiving yards
2001100 career receptions
20025K career rushing yards
200225 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

4 playoff games

Rushing

Att42Yds221TD2Y/A5.3TD%4.81D111D%26.2Fmb1

Receiving

College Stats

TexasCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Texas), 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

Tony GonzalezTE6y Eddie KennisonWR6y Greg WesleyFS6y Jason DunnTE6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Priest inherited the Kansas City Chiefs RB room from Marcus Allen (1993–1997), and handed it to Larry Johnson (2003–2009).

Herman Heard 1984–1989Todd McNair 1989–1996Kimble Anders 1991–2000Marcus Allen 1993–1997Priest Holmes 2001–2007Larry Johnson

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2007final season
Last recorded season with KC
2001team change
Joined KC (from BAL)
1997signing
Entered the NFL with BAL

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

5'9" / 213 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 10-season peers. See all →

peak 84

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

D1997

A1998

C+1999

B2000

A2001

A2002

B+2003

B+2004

C+2005

F2007

Availability

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

70%

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
1997	0	0	265+265	15.6
1998	1,008	77.5	1,621+613	95.4
1999	454	64.9	1,261+807	74.2
2000	588	36.8	750+162	44.1
2001	1,555	97.2	1,571+16	92.4
2002	1,615	115.4	1,748+133	102.8
2003	1,420	88.8	1,368-52	80.5
2004	892	111.5	1,637+745	96.3
2005	451	64.4	1,000+549	58.8
2007	137	34.3	545+408	32.1

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), espn.com:stats-api (games-played, facts-only reference) · 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.