Career Arc Trajectories
Early Bloomer
964 playersPeaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot.
Rankings as of 2026-06-29, as declared by the corpus that produced them.
Classification uses KV-H spark arrays from the 1999+ StatVault encyclopedia. HOF and VORP summaries are joined from the existing Canton Monitor and VORP artifacts; missing rows are excluded from averages and counted below.
HOF Eligible Rate
4%
25/678 eligible enshrined
Avg HOF Probability
5%
931 monitor rows
Avg VORP / Season
26.1
12 VORP-covered players shown
Peak Timing
0.16
0=early - 1=late
Top Early Bloomer by KV-H
T.J. Watt
OLB - peak 2019 - 9 seasons
93
KV-H
Nick Bosa
DE - peak 2021 - 5 seasons
92
KV-H
George Kittle
TE - peak 2018 - 9 seasons
90
KV-H
Von Miller
OLB - peak 2012 - 14 seasons
90
KV-H
Shannon Sharpe
TE - peak 2000 - 5 seasons
89
KV-H
J.J. Watt
DE - peak 2012 - 11 seasons
88
KV-H
Mario Williams
DE - peak 2007 - 11 seasons
88
KV-H
Michael Strahan
DE - peak 2001 - 9 seasons
88
KV-H
Aldon Smith
DE - peak 2012 - 6 seasons
87
KV-H
Dwight Freeney
DE - peak 2004 - 14 seasons
87
KV-H
Elvis Dumervil
DE - peak 2009 - 11 seasons
87
KV-H
Jason Taylor
OLB - peak 2002 - 13 seasons
87
KV-H
Most Efficient VORP Seasons
T.J. Watt
OLB - peak 2019 - 9 seasons
42.3
VORP/s
George Kittle
TE - peak 2018 - 9 seasons
40.8
VORP/s
Rob Gronkowski
TE - peak 2011 - 11 seasons
38.6
VORP/s
Von Miller
OLB - peak 2012 - 14 seasons
37.4
VORP/s
Jason Taylor
OLB - peak 2002 - 13 seasons
33.7
VORP/s
Emmitt Smith
RB - peak 1999 - 6 seasons
33.4
VORP/s
Matt Ryan
QB - peak 2012 - 15 seasons
32.7
VORP/s
Antonio Gates
TE - peak 2004 - 16 seasons
32.6
VORP/s
Dwight Freeney
DE - peak 2004 - 14 seasons
32.1
VORP/s
Jason Witten
TE - peak 2004 - 17 seasons
31.9
VORP/s
Curtis Martin
RB - peak 1999 - 7 seasons
31.3
VORP/s
Justin Houston
OLB - peak 2014 - 13 seasons
31.1
VORP/s