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Victor Cruz ranks in the all-time elite tier for receivers — a career that places Cruz in the top 10% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Cruz a career score of 74, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

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#4What-if careersof 31

WRNYG#80ACT

Victor Cruz

Top 6% all-time WRsElite Playmaker📉 Fades · -17% playoffs 💭 What If? · 4+ seasons left 🌅 Early Bloomer · 2011

Height

Career Value · VORP

103 career value over replacement — #1121 all-time of 4,695. 20.6/season above a replacement-level WR.

Career Profile

4 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

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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: 93%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 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 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.

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+

Solid

SIS

Yards / snap:0.999 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap0.999Touch rate0.122EPA/snap0Snap share84.8%Off snaps1,923ConsistentCV 0.22

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+).

Playoff vs Regular Season

📉 Regular Season Player

Yards / Reception: 15.0 regular season → 12.5 playoffs (2 playoff seasons)

-17%

vs reg season

Career Milestones5

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

20111K career receiving yards
2012100 career receptions
20133K career receiving yards
2014250 career receptions
201625 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

Receiving

Tgt35Rec24Yds299TD1Ctch%68.6%Y/R12.5Y/Tgt8.51D18

College Stats

UMass AmherstCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (UMass Amherst), 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

Eli ManningQB5y Jason Pierre-PaulDE5y Mark HerzlichOLB5y Antrel RolleS4y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Victor inherited the New York Giants WR room from Hakeem Nicks (2009–2015), and handed it to Rueben Randle (2012–2015).

Johnny Perkins 1977–1982Earnest Gray 1979–1984Bobby Johnson 1984–1986Lionel Manuel 1984–1990Stephen Baker 1987–1992Chris Calloway

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2016final season
Last recorded season with NYG
2011signing
Entered the NFL with NYG

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'0" / 204 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 5-season peers. See all →

peak 79

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

A2011

B+2012

B+2013

C2014

C+2016

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 5 seasons.

84%

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
2011	1,536	96	1,568+32	92.3
2012	1,092	68.3	1,054-38	62
2013	998	71.3	1,114+116	65.5
2014	337	56.2	828+491	48.7
2016	586	41.9	604+18	35.5

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:injuries · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.