Career Arc Trajectories
Shooting Star
1,512 playersOne or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent.
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
1%
7/974 eligible enshrined
Avg HOF Probability
2%
1465 monitor rows
Avg VORP / Season
23.3
11 VORP-covered players shown
Peak Timing
0.44
0=early - 1=late
Top Shooting Star by KV-H
Trey McBride
TE - peak 2025 - 4 seasons
80
KV-H
Kerby Joseph
SAF - peak 2024 - 4 seasons
79
KV-H
Aidan Hutchinson
DE - peak 2025 - 4 seasons
78
KV-H
Derek Stingley Jr.
CB - peak 2023 - 4 seasons
77
KV-H
Puka Nacua
WR - peak 2025 - 3 seasons
74
KV-H
Will Anderson Jr.
DE - peak 2024 - 3 seasons
74
KV-H
Michael McCrary
DE - peak 1999 - 4 seasons
72
KV-H
DaRon Bland
CB - peak 2023 - 4 seasons
71
KV-H
George Karlaftis
DE - peak 2023 - 4 seasons
71
KV-H
Trace Armstrong
DE - peak 2000 - 4 seasons
70
KV-H
Travon Walker
DE - peak 2024 - 4 seasons
70
KV-H
Brock Bowers
TE - peak 2024 - 2 seasons
69
KV-H
Most Efficient VORP Seasons
ben-coates
TE - peak 1999 - 2 seasons
31.8
VORP/s
ricky-watters
RB - peak 1999 - 3 seasons
29.5
VORP/s
thurman-thomas
RB - peak 2000 - 2 seasons
29.2
VORP/s
terry-allen
RB - peak 1999 - 3 seasons
24.9
VORP/s
troy-aikman
QB - peak 1999 - 2 seasons
24.0
VORP/s
andre-rison
WR - peak 2000 - 2 seasons
20.4
VORP/s
jessie-tuggle
MLB - peak 1999 - 2 seasons
20.1
VORP/s
Trace Armstrong
DE - peak 2000 - 4 seasons
20.0
VORP/s
clyde-simmons
DE - peak 1999 - 2 seasons
20.0
VORP/s
andre-reed
WR - peak 1999 - 2 seasons
19.0
VORP/s
irving-fryar
WR - peak 2000 - 2 seasons
17.1
VORP/s